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HUNDREDS OF UK MUSLIMS TO PROTEST AT LONDON PALESTINE CONFERENCE

London, UK, February 24 - Hundreds of UK Muslims will demonstrate outside
the UK government sponsored Palestinian reform conference on Tuesday March
1st 2005. The London conference will be attended by Palestinian President
Mahmood Abbas, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, US Secretary of State
Condoleeza Rice and other representatives of the Middle East Quartet. The
demonstration is organised by Hizb ut-Tahrir, a leading global Islamic
political party.

Demonstrators will condemn the treachery of Palestinian President Mahmood
Abbas in his recognition of Israel's occupation of Palestine and will call
for the unification of the Muslim world, including Palestine, via the return
of the Islamic Khilafah [Caliphate].

Dr Imran Waheed, the Representative of Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain, said,
"Mahmood Abbas is yet another Western puppet in the Middle East who has sold
Palestine. Muslims reject outright Israel's occupation. The PLO was
established as an alternative colonialist expression, working to rewrite
history and turn occupation into a false secular two-state solution. History
is testament to the fact that only the Islamic Khilafah, not secularism,
allowed Muslims, Jews and Christians to live side by side in peace and
tranquillity."

The protest will take place on Tuesday 1st March 2005 at 9 a.m. GMT outside
the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Broad Sanctuary, Westminster,
London, SW1P 3EE [nearest underground station: Westminster].

Notes to Editors:

Hizb ut-Tahrir is an independent Islamic political party established in
Jerusalem in 1953. The party works throughout the Islamic world to resume
the Islamic way of life by re-establishing the Islamic Khilafah [Caliphate].
The party adheres to Islamic law in all aspects of its work and considers
violence or armed struggle against the regime, as a method to re-establish
the Islamic State, to be forbidden by Islamic law. In the Western world, the
party seeks to explain the Islamic ideology to Muslims, to create a dialogue
with Western thinkers and to present a positive image of Islam to Western
society.

CONTACT:

Imran Waheed - Media Representative
Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain
Email: imran.waheed@hizb-ut-tahrir.org.uk
Phone: 07074-192400 [+44(0)7800-548843 from outside the UK]