Further to my post on Hamza Tzortzis’ links with extremist Islamist group, Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain, an anonymous Muslim blogger posted this comment on philosopher Stephen Law’s blog after I posted my piece on the thread advertising his forthcoming debate on the existence of God against Tzortzis at Kingston University on 5 March 2010.
In December 2009 Tzortzis replied to The Centre For Social Cohesion’s report with this statement (download PDF) that sets out his current associations with the group:
Within the last year certain extreme right wing commentators and neo conservative ‘think’ tanks have attempted to link myself and the work that I engage in to the Islamic political party Hizb ut Tahrir. I would like to take this opportunity to clarify my associations and the nature of the work that I do.
I am not a member of Hizb ut Tahrir or any other political party, and I am not a ‘front’ for their work. However I have been associated with the Hizb ut Tahrir in the past. I formally left the party early this year for many reasons, some of which include theological, political and spiritual concerns. These have been shared with some senior figures within the party.
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As a concluding note, I would like to highlight that I will not hesitate to take any entity that publicly defames me and the work that I do via a legal process, as a means to formally clarify my position.
I am grateful to the anonymous Muslim commenter on Stephen Law’s blog for drawing my attention to Tzortzis’ statement. Indeed, I look forward to meeting the man in the libel courts where I will uphold every word of my original post.
This post has been quoted by Harry’s Place in a post regarding Tzorztis’ links with HBT.
The author of the post is slightly inaccurate in saying that Tzortzis himself posted the statement of clarification on Stephen Law’s blog. The poster was preferred not to leave their name.
Although what are the odds that it really was Tzortzis? Rather slim, I would wager.
However, as another commenter on HP points out, the PDF of the statement has now vanished from Tzortzis’ blog and it could only have been deleted by him.
An interesting coincidence, since yesterday I send an email to Tzortzis daring him to issue defamation proceedings against me in the two weeks he has left under this country’s limitation rules in respect of my original post on his links with HBT after I posted this comment regarding of his disgraceful attempt to appear moderate on his recent appearance Newsnight.
I wonder what the chances are that Tzortzis has given up attempting to hide his links with a bunch of fundamentalist religious crackpots and is allowing the bloggers and journalist to make all the “libellous” comments they please because there’s no hiding the awful truth?
Again, rather small, for my money.
I don’t think hamza will be taking anyone to court because an islamist like him won’t be allowed to take action through man made law. lol.
Just shows the stupidity of islam in the 21st century.
According to islam in a non islamic state muslims are bound to follow the laws of the land. So not only he can take the guy to courts but he is guided by islam in 21st century to make sure he takes that guy to the court. Oh i am sorry i just showed ur stupidity and lack of knowledge about the subject ( islam ) u commented on. No offence bro!! this world is cruel place and it will continue to treat u like a stupid, dumb, non-intellectual person as long as u will carry on making comments based of less knowledge. I know its hard for u to be a stupid guy in 21st century. 🙂
MR Aktar people like you who are hiding behind names, you coward what you can talk about Islam? you are just a coward who cannot even write his real name.
forget hizbut tahrir, he appears to be a straight up wahhabist!