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After the London attacks, there is renewed interest in understanding how Hizb ut-Tahrir and al-Muhajiroun are radicalizing British (European) Muslims. See Shiv Malik's piece in The New Statesman describing HT as "the conveyor belt" of extremism. It is a term I first coined in my April 2004 article on HT.
For more on HT and al-Muhajiroun, see also my book in pdf format listed on the lower left side of this page.
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