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Hizb ut-Tahrir

Hizb ut-Tahrir is a pan-Islamist organization whose stated aim is to re-establish the Islamic caliphate and implement sharia globally. Through 2010 the opening said the group works to create an atmosphere conducive to terrorism by preaching hatred and by actions such as calling suicide bombers "martyrs". Today the opening does not carry that description, and the word martyr does not appear there at all, though it survives seven times in the body. A reader arriving now learns of the group's caliphate ambitions and not that Wikipedia's opening once tied the group to glorifying suicide bombers.
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Hizb ut-Tahrir ( ; ) is an international pan-Islamist , Sunni " vanguard " political party whose goal is to combine all Muslim countries in a unitary Islamic state or caliphate , ruled by Islamic law and with a caliph head of state elected by Muslims.1 The organization was founded in 1953 in Jerusalem by Taqiuddin al-Nabhani , an Islamic scholar and appeals court judge ( Qadi ) from the Palestinian village of Ijzim . Since then Hizb ut-Tahrir has spread to more than 40 countries, and by one estimate has about one million members. Hizb ut-Tahrir is very active in the west , particularly in the United Kingdom , and is also active in several Arab and Central Asian countries, despite being banned by most of the local governments.2 Hizb ut-Tahrir believes a caliphate , an Islamic State, "will provide stability and security to all the people of the region, Muslims and Non-Muslims". The party promotes "an elaborate and detailed program for instituting an Islamist state" that will "establish the laws of the Islamic Shariah and to carry the Da'wah of Islam to the world." It believes this "comprehensive solution" will provide "sincere leadership that cares for and protects its citizens from the colonial foreign policies of Bush and Blair" and bring an end to "US interventions, energy inspired wars, puppet (Muslim) governments and western values forced by the barrel of a gun." Hizb ut-Tahrir is strongly anti-Zionist and calls for "the dismantling" of the "illegal entity" of Israel. Some observers believe it is a victim of unjust and untrue allegations of connections to terrorism. Others argue its stated opposition to violence is tactical and temporary, and it works to create an atmosphere conducive to terrorism by preaching hatred and by actions such as calling suicide bombers "martyrs" and talking of the need to "destroy the new crusaders," i.e. Western troops in Iraq. "Fighting the War of Ideas" , 2005 [2] Article 16 Hizb ut Tahrir al Islami Malik, Shiv.3

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“colonial” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 5. Read the current article and compare.
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What Wikipedia says this is

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Then

an independent political party whose ideology is based on the teachings of islam

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international pan-islamist and islamic fundamentalist political organization whose stated aim is the re-establi

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