{"id":18787,"date":"2026-04-14T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T07:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=18787"},"modified":"2026-04-11T11:07:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T10:07:30","slug":"hizb-ut-tahrir-grenfell-protests-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=18787","title":{"rendered":"Hizb Ut-Tahrir & Grenfell Protests – 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hizb Ut-Tahrir & Grenfell Protests:<\/strong> On Saturday 14th April 2018 I photographed a protest at the Turkish Embassy by the now proscribed group Hizb Ut-Tahrir and later went to Kensington Town Hall where I photographed bikers on a ride for Grenfell and the silent walk 10 months after the tragic fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hizb Ut-Tahrir protest against Turkey<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Turkish Embassy, Belgrave Square<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Men stand at the front of the protest opposite the Turkish embassy<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Hizb Ut-Tahrir Britain had come to protest criticising Turkey for their role in supporting President Assad in regaining control of Syria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Women were in a separate block at the back of the protest<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

They say Turkey since the end of the Ottoman state in 1922 has been a secular state “whose role is to protect the colonialist\u2019s interests in our lands<\/em>” with Turkey recognising the Zionist occupation of Palestine in 1949.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They accuse President Erdogan of strengthening Turkish military and economic ties with Israel, “defending and strengthening our enemies who murder us in Syria and Palestine<\/em>“.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The protest took place on the night in the Islamic calendar when the Prophet made a night journey to al-Aqsa (Jerusalem) and it called on all Muslims to support the Palestinians in their fight “against the illegal occupation, as they are mercilessly killed by the Zionist regime.<\/em>” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hizb Ut-Tahrir are a Sunni Muslim group who call for the restoration of the Khilafah Rashidah, the “Rightly Guided<\/em>” rule of the four caliphs who succeeded the Prophet in a 30 year reign from 632 -661 AD when Muslim armies conquered much of the Middle East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The organisation was banned in January 2024 after a protest outside the Egyptian Embassy in which they called upon Muslim armies to attack Israel. Previous calls<\/a> under Tony Blair and David Cameron to ban the organisation had been opposed by the UK government\u2019s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation and the Home Office as Hizb Ut-Tahrir did not advocate violence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hizb Ut-Tahrir protest against Turkey<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bikers for Grenfell<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Kensington Town Hall<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bikers, including Muslim bikers Deen Riders and others took part in a United Ride 4 Grenfell from the Ace Cafe on the North Circular to Parliament and then came to Kensington Town Hall demanding action and justice for the victims of the Grenfell fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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People gathering from the monthly silent march for Grenfell cheered and applauded them as they rode past and then began their march. Among them were many of the survivors from the fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bikers for Grenfell<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Grenfell Silent Walk – 10 Months On<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Kensington<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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‘Tories have blood on their hands’ but the silent walks seemed to have had little impact<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Grenfell fire was a tragedy waiting to happen because of decisions made by Kensington and Chelsea Council who had approved the fitting of unsafe cladding to cut costs, had ignored residents complaints about safety in the building, and more. Government too share some of the blame for their cutting ‘red tape’ policies that had hugely compromised safety, including the privatisation of fire inspections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The contractors they employed to carry out the cladding – and those they had employed had not done the job properly – but the council had failed to oversee their work properly and the reduced safety regulation regime allowed them to get away with improper installaion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kensington & Chelsea is a borough of extremes of wealth, and its Tory council is largely run by and for its wealthier residents. Both in the way in which it ran its social housing leading up to the fire and its failure to deal effectively with its aftermath it showed little concern for the poorer in the borough. Ten months after the fire there were still survivors who were not properly rehoused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And now, almost nine years after the fire on Wednesday 14 June 2017, we have still seen no justice, despite a long and hugely expensive inquiry. As so often the authorities seem to have been more interested in protecting the guilty, kicking things into the long grass. I doubt there will ever be any real justice – if it comes it will be far too little and far too late.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More at Grenfell silent walk – 10 months on<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hizb Ut-Tahrir & Grenfell Protests: On Saturday 14th April 2018 I photographed a protest at the Turkish Embassy by the now proscribed group Hizb Ut-Tahrir and later went to Kensington Town Hall where I photographed bikers on a ride for Grenfell and the silent walk 10 months after the tragic fire. Hizb Ut-Tahrir protest against … Continue reading Hizb Ut-Tahrir & Grenfell Protests – 2018<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[1984,23986,4067,3525,7641,7737,1096,15004,3524,4645,6303,14810,5765,23985,17,244,24,83,23984,16,5158,23987,8521,1002,358,1405,1407,7735,5160],"class_list":["post-18787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-own-work","category-political-issues","tag-1984","tag-ace-cafe","tag-bikers-for-grenfell","tag-caliphate","tag-contractors","tag-deen-riders","tag-grenfell-fire","tag-grenfell-silent-walk","tag-hizb-ut-tahrir","tag-islamists","tag-justice-for-grenfell","tag-kensington-and-chelsea","tag-kensington-town-hall","tag-khilafah-rashidah","tag-london","tag-march","tag-palestine","tag-peter-marshall","tag-proscribed","tag-protest","tag-red-tape","tag-residents-complaints","tag-safety-inspections","tag-silent-walk","tag-syria","tag-turkey","tag-turkish-embassy","tag-united-ride-4-grenfell","tag-unsafe-cladding"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18788,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18787\/revisions\/18788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}