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Article: The Caliphate: One nation, under Allah, with 1.5 billion Muslims.(WORLD)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- May 10, 2006
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Byline: James Brandon Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
AMMAN, JORDAN -- The three middle-aged men sitting in an Indian restaurant in Jordan's capital scarcely look like Islamic revolutionaries. They are smartly dressed in Western-style suits and sip thoughtfully from cans of Pepsi as they share their plan to reshape the Muslim world.
"[President] Bush says that we want to enslave people and oppress their freedom of speech," says Abu Abdullah, a senior member of Hizb ut-Tahrir, the Party of Liberation. "But we want to free all people from being slaves of men and make them slaves of Allah."
Hizb ut-Tahrir says that Muslims should ...