 Westerners must leave Muslim lands if they want to safeguard themselves against terrorist attacks, says the Sydney leader of the global Islamic group Hizb ut-Tahrir, Wassim Doureihi.
| By the same reasoning, Muslims should immediately pack up and leave Western lands if they want to safeguard themselves. See, this one's a tit, that one's a tat. It's the difference between having your cake and eating it. |
Although Mr Doureihi says his group espouses non-violence, he warns Australia to "stop interfering in Islamic land, stop enforcing rules over Muslims and allow the Muslims to assume their own political destiny 
If we are really serious about protecting the lives of the people in Australia, if you want to remove the possibility of these actions occurring within these countries, then remove the original injustice."
| And if you want to remove the threat of eventual mass deportations, take the sign off your collective ass that demands to be kicked... |
Hizb ut-Tahrir came under scrutiny yesterday after a report it was launching a recruitment drive in Sydney and was linked to one of the London bombers. But Mr Doureihi, 28, an accountant, vehemently denied a London link. "The Islamic position is very clear - that is, Islam condemns the killing of innocent non-combatants whether it's in London or Iraq," he said at the rented room at Greenacre where his group meets on Friday nights. However, leaflets handed out to members refer to the "war on Islam being reignited", leading to accusations of inflammatory language. "It's very ironic," Mr Doureihi said, "that certain groups can be targeted with words they use, when at the same time bombs are being dropped on entire villages and yet the world hasn't arisen to condemn that."
| And they were being bombed for no reason whatsoever? Is this another example of the disconnect between cause and effect? Or merely disappointment that having the armed and dangerous set surrounded by innocents doesn't protect them? |
He does not believe Muslims can co-exist with Western society. Asked, then, why he chose to stay in Australia, he said: "I was born in this country. I don't choose where I was born 
I consider myself as a Muslim first and foremost."
| Lots of people come to Australia. There's no reason you can't leave it. Probably there are lots of people who'd be happy to help you pack, some of them even those people who've come to Australia. |
Hizb ut-Tahrir supports a transnational regime under Sharia law. It is banned in a number of Middle Eastern countries, but it is not a proscribed terrorist organisation in Australia, the US or Britain.
| ... even though it should be, and eventually will be. |
The president of the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, Dr Ameer Ali, said: "Whenever we come across any groups like this, who are openly, blatantly advocating violence, we bring them to the notice of the law-enforcing authorities." However, Keysar Trad, a founder of the Australian Islamic Friendship Association, said the group was "non-integrationist but not violent".
| "Non-integrationalist" seems to be a term of art that'd translate loosely as "irrational." |
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