CounterPoint Brief: U.K. Declares Hizb ut-Tahrir a Terrorist Group

Yesterday, U.K. Home Secretary James Cleverly declared the global Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir (“Party of Liberation” “HT”) a terrorist group, laying down a draft order that could go into effect later this week, pending parliamentary debate and vote...

COUNTERPOINT BRIEF: U.K. DECLARES HIZB UT-TAHRIR A TERRORIST GROUP

Yesterday, U.K. Home Secretary James Cleverly declared the global Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir (“Party of Liberation” “HT”) a terrorist group, laying down a draft order that could go into effect later this week, pending parliamentary debate and vote...

CEP Senior Advisor Ambassador Edmund Fitton-Brown testified before the United Kingdom Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee for hearing, "The UK’s international counter-terrorism policy,"

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"The Houthis are a Yemeni militia group named after their founder, Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi. They represent the Zaidi branch of Shia Islam and emerged in the 1980s in opposition to Saudi Arabia's religious influence in Yemen. With an estimated 20...

"Houthi rebels have promised to retaliate for airstrikes carried out by the US and UK in Yemen. Washington and London say they hit the targets to protect international shipping from Houthis attacks. Counter extremism expert Hans-Jakob Schindler says...

CEP Senior Advisor Ambassador Edmund Fitton-Brown: "The great majority threat is from Islamist extremists. And yes...white supremacists...there is a problem of that kind in the U.K. And it should be taken seriously. But I worry that there may be some...