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Islamic Liberation Party (Hizb al-Tahrir al-Islami) is an Islamic political movement created in 1953 in East Jerusalem by the "Qadi" Taqi al-din al-Nabhani, an appeals judge and senior religious figure who split off from the Muslim Brotherhood. The mission of the Islamic liberation party is to reestablish the Islamic Caliphate, to institute muslim religious laws, and to "liberate" the Islamic "Ummah" from foreign influence. According to the party the Caliphate will be established through Islamic propaganda calling upon Muslims to live their lives according to Islamic religious law. The Party refuses to take an active role in the militant Jihad against infidel prior to the establishment of the Islamic Caliphate. In 2005 there were two attempts at political subversion by members of the party in Uzbekistan on May 13 and Kyrgyzstan on March 24. Arrests of members of Islamic Liberation Party have been made in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.[1]
