In CNN’s report on UK security and those remembering the July 7, 2005 bombings in London, it also reports on one British Muslim woman, Hadiya Masieh, who left the anti-democracy group Hizb ut-Tahrir as a result.
CNN reports in its story “Former top anti-terror cop: London should fear more terror attacks”:
— “But for one young British Muslim woman, who was herself radicalized after joining extremist group Hizb ut Tahrir at college, seeing the July 7 attacks for herself on television proved to be the high watermark for her radical beliefs.”
— “‘I think it was a wake-up call,’ Hadiya Masieh told CNN. ‘I was heavily pregnant with my third child when I was in the waiting room of the hospital watching the screen. I just felt like hiding. I wanted to distance myself from those people who created that atrocity.'”
— “She and her husband, who also belonged to Hizb ut Tahrir, now work to foster better relations between faiths. In her latest project she helped set up a screening of a movie she hopes will break down barriers. The film, ‘Arranged,’ depicts a blossoming friendship between a Muslim woman and an orthodox Jewish woman.”
— “‘At the end of the day, if we have an understanding of each other I think this will eradicate any feelings of animosity and hatred.'”
See also Guardian / Observer: Hadiya Masieh: How 7 July bombings made me question my beliefs
— “Hadiya Masieh was recruited by Hizb ut-Tahrir radicals, but 7/7 bombings five years ago opened her eyes”
— “‘The 7/7 bombers and the people I knew at HT were two sides of the same coin,’ she says. ‘HT says it does not believe in violence, but the violence was never condemned; they just didn’t think it would achieve anything.’ She told the organisation that she no longer believed what it preached and she left.”
British Muslim Woman Hadiyah Masieh was a Member of Hizb ut-Tahrir, But Rejected Its Views After July 7 Attacks (Photo: Guardian/Observer)
CNN: A radical mother transformed
— on Hadiya Masieh departure from Hizb ut-Tahrir
CNN Video Interview of Hadiya Masieh
In July 2007, Muslim Ed Husain reported on his previous involvement with Hizb ut-Tahrir, and stated that “Hizb ut-Tahrir calls for an expansionist, violent, totalitarian Islamist state,” and that the “rhetoric of jihad introduced by Hizb ut-Tahrir in my days was the preamble to 7/7 and several other attempted attacks.”
Previously, the BBC News, BBC Video, Daily Telegraph, and Guardian news have reported on the activities of Hizb ut-Tahrir in the United Kingdom.
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We continue to invite Hizb ut-Tahrir to debate us on this subject in a public forum before the American people, and we invite them to join one of our public events, including our July 11 event at the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool steps in Washington DC.
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