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Radical Muslim organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir calls ‘emergency’ meeting after Tony Abbott announces security crackdown
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A Hizb ut-Tahrir supporter waves the group's flag. (AAP)

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Controversial radical Muslim group Hizb ut-Tahrir has called an “emergency” press conference after Prime Minister Tony Abbott called for sweeping changes to Australia’s national security policy.
In a statement posted to his official YouTube channel on Sunday, Mr Abbott said he would crack down on those who threated the nation’s safety.
Mr Abbott did not specifically mention the group in the recent statement but he has previously raised the prospect of banning them.
Hizb ut-Tahrir promotes the cause of a global caliphate to be established under Sharia law and advocates religious struggle while not publicly condoning violence.
"It's clear to me that for too long we have given those who might be a threat to our country the benefit of the doubt," Mr Abbott said.

February 15, 2015: Prime Minister Tony Abbott has outlined a tough stance on national security, vowing that “bad people” won’t make Australians “look like mugs”, in a new address on his YouTube channel.

October 09, 2014: Lateline host Emma Alberici has engaged in a heated discussion with Wassim Doureihi, spokesman for Muslim group Hizb ut-Tahrir, after she asked him to denounce the violent actions of Islamic State.
"There's been the benefit of the doubt at our borders, the benefit of the doubt for residency, the benefit of the doubt for citizenship and the benefit of the doubt at Centrelink.
“And in the courts, there has been bail, when clearly there should have been jail."
Hizb ut-Tahrir (“Party of Liberation”) said it needed to address the crack down on the group and the wider implications generated by Mr Abbott’s comments.
“In the past few weeks, Tony Abbott has flagged unprecedented changes to Australia’s national security framework,” the statement read.
“Hizb ut-Tahrir will seek to provide important context to these announcements by exposing international efforts to silence legitimate Islamic political activism under the guise of countering ‘radicalisation’ and ‘extremism’.

Hizb ut-Tahrir's Australian spokesman Uthman Badar. (AAP)
“The world is now entering one of its most delicate and fragile episodes.
“Now, more than ever, we all have a collective responsibility to raise ourselves above the cheap politics of denial and of pragmatism, a politics that has not made any one of us safer.”
The organisation is banned in much of the Middle East and northern Africa, and closely monitored in the US and United Kingdom.
In Germany the group is barred from conducting public rallies.
The group has around 300 members in Australia and has publicly rejected the self-proclaimed caliphate established in Syria and Iraq by ISIL.
The media event will take place in Lakemba, in Sydney’s west, tomorrow evening.
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