BBC Reporter - Member of Extreme Islamic Group

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A BBC reporter has been detained in Tajikistan for allegedly participating in a banned Islamic group and using his position to promote its extreme ideology.

Really describes the BBC itself. Naturally in this instance the BBC feigns 'shock horror'.

BBC reporter detained for membership of 'extreme Islamic group'
A BBC reporter has been detained in Tajikistan for allegedly participating in a banned Islamic group and using his position to promote its extreme ideology.

"BBC radio correspondent Urunbay Usmonov, 50, was detained for membership in the illegal movement Hizb ut-Tahrir," Makhmadullo Asadulloyev, a spokesman for the interior ministry in the former Soviet republic, confirmed on Wednesday.
Mr Usmonov "was engaged in extremist propaganda and campaigning for the movement on the internet," he added.
Hizb ut-Tahrir, which promotes a rigorous and puritanical brand of Islam, is legal in the UK but banned in most countries in Central Asia. It seeks to establish a global Caliphate, but rejects the use of violence to achieve this end.
The BBC expressed "very great concern" at Mr Usmonov's arrest and demanded his immediate release.
"Whilst Mr Usmonov has reported on the judicial trials and activities of the Hizb ut-Tahrir party in Tajikistan at the request of the BBC, the BBC has no reason to believe these allegations," it said in a statement.
It added that Mr Usmonov had been denied a lawyer, detained for two days without charge, and appeared to have been beaten up while under police custody.
The British Embassy said it was "concerned" by the arrest. "We have urged the Tajik authorities to clarify the situation as soon as possible," it said in a statement.
Emomalii Rahmon, the country's president, has over the last year intensified pressure on the country's Muslims, arresting 150 Hizb ut-Tahrir members, closing mosques, and pulling back Tajik students from religious schools overseas.
Islamic forces formed the backbone of opposition to Mr Rahmon in the civil war which raged in the country throughout the early 1990s.

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The BBC expressed "very great concern" at Mr Usmonov's arrest and demanded his immediate release.

The BBC obviously well connected with the terrorist group then.

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That and probably every other Islamic one going I'll bet.

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Today the Tajik court finds BBC reporter guilty of complicity

If we examine how the BBC reports this in their article, we can see that not only is this reporter guilty as charged, but the BBC itself.

Note early in the article the BBC claim Mr Usmonov's arrest in June sparked international condemnation - the BBC has strongly condemned the verdict. International condemnation by whom, we are not told. What INTERNATIONAL body or bodies can determine whether this reporter is guilty or not of the crimes he is accused of, to condemn it?

Now the BBC does report ...He added that the court saw Mr Usmonov as being guilty of "giving information to BBC radio for propaganda of Hizb ut-Tahrir activities". Propaganda of Hizb ut-Tahrir activities sounds totally accurate to me, and if we see this final paragraph from the article it should be clear to anybody with a brain that this is exactly what the BBC is doing: Hizb ut-Tahrir is an Islamic organisation which has swept across Central Asia over the past decade, attracting thousands of young recruits.

It is openly critical of the Tajik regime and is outlawed in the country.

It does not advocate violence but wants to overthrow the present leadership to establish an Islamic state across the Middle East and Central Asia.
I would like somebody to explain to me then how they will 'overthrow the present leadership and establish an Islamic state' in non-Islamic countries without violence.

But this is what the BBC want you to accept as valid.

Bear in mind that Tajikistan does not have the same kind of 'politically correct' government and society that we have gotten use to here. There they call a spade a spade, and they do not want an Islamic group trying to undermine their society, as we 'tolerate' here. So they have banned Hizb ut-Tahrir, as have quite a few other countries around the world. Here's an article on this group from Islam Watch, a website run by ex-Muslims 'scrutinising Islam'. While this article was written in 2007, it is still valid on most of the points covered.

It is a fact that the use of ANY tactic from extreme violence and murder (terror), to lies and deceit, are considered justifiable tools by Muslims engaged in jihad against the non Muslim world. This in itself makes trust impossible. If we look at this segment, which simply looks logically at what this group is trying to do whilst claiming it doesn't advocate violence, we can see the 'loophole' in their claim.

Part III: Intellectualism or Incitement?

Hizb ut-Tahrir presents itself as an intellectual group, but there is a gap between what it professes and what is practically possible. It claims to be non-violent, yet argues for the installation of a world-wide Caliphate. To institute a new "world order" would unavoidably lead to violence. Political revolutions, by their nature, involve some amount of violence. There have been few examples of bloodless revolution. The 1989 "Velvet Revolution" of the former Czechoslovakia was bloodless, yet could have been crushed with violence, had the Soviets so desired. The founder of HT, Taqiuddin al-Nabhani, spent much time discussing the nature of thought, but such sophistry is limited by its dogma. He believed that Islam was rational and therefore could be promoted through persuasion and rational discussion. Contradicting this, he maintained that the Koran cannot be questioned, and is thus beyond the bounds of true discussion. Persuading non-Muslims to accept Islam as a political system which allows no dissent from the tenets of one book would naturally result in conflict. This conflict was specifically alluded to on the group's U.K. website last November (since removed). The statement claimed that Hizb ut-Tahrir "also aims to bring back the Islamic guidance for mankind and to lead the Ummah into a struggle with Kufr, its systems and its thoughts so that Islam encapsulates the world."

It is disingenuous for any Islamic group, knowing full well that we in the West are aware of the intent of the radical elements within their framework to think that we should believe any claim or statement they make. Any more than a serial criminal would expect a society to believe in his rehabilitation based only on statements.

'By their works shall ye know them'.

If not directly behind numerous terrorist attacks in the world, Hizb-ut-Tahrir has certainly promoted many, not to mention their stance on Israel and Jews, which you can read about on Wikipedia, amongst other acts and statements made by them. We have shown how the BBC gave Omar Bakri Mohammed, one of the early leaders of this group, a very easy ride, allowing him to sponsor terrorism while promoting him as a peaceful or moderate Muslim.

The BBC sponsors terrorists, and we should follow the example of Tajikistan.