Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT)

Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) is an inter­na­tion­al Islamist orga­ni­za­tion found­ed in 1953 in Jerusalem by Taqi al-Din al-Nab­hani, ded­i­cat­ed to the long-term goal of estab­lish­ing a glob­al Islam­ic caliphate gov­erned by its inter­pre­ta­tion of Sharia. Rather than par­tic­i­pat­ing in elec­tions or form­ing polit­i­cal par­ties, HT oper­ates as an ide­o­log­i­cal and influ­ence-dri­ven move­ment, cul­ti­vat­ing tight­ly-dis­ci­plined cadres who work to shift pub­lic dis­course, recruit young and edu­cat­ed Mus­lims, chal­lenge sec­u­lar gov­er­nance, and nor­mal­ize the group’s anti-demo­c­ra­t­ic, pan-Islamist world­view. Banned in numer­ous coun­tries for its extrem­ist posi­tions, the orga­ni­za­tion exerts influ­ence through media cam­paigns, cam­pus activism, study cir­cles, and out­reach net­works, func­tion­ing as a sus­tained ide­o­log­i­cal pres­sure force rather than a con­ven­tion­al polit­i­cal actor.

Sources:
Hizb ut-Tahrir – Wikipedia
Under­stand­ing Hizb ut-Tahrir – Pro­gram on Extrem­ism (GWU)
Who are Hizb ut-Tahrir? – BBC News
Hizb ut-Tahrir: Eval­u­at­ing the Threat – Uni­ver­si­ty of South Florida