It’s the Hizb-sounding part that makes me think of -ollah. From Growing Muslim Movement Offers Alternative to Hamas: Founded in 1953, Hizb ut-Tahrir’s goal is the establishment of a worldwide caliphate, a global Islamic empire. A newly assertive Hizb ut-Tahrir (Party of Liberation) has been showing its strength across the Muslim world, most impressively drawing 100,000 people to a soccer stadium in Indonesia earlier this month. They noisily called for a return to the time of the caliphs, a line of centuries of Islamic rulers that ended with the collapse of the Ottoman Empire more than 80 years ago. A
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