MCB's Inayat Bunglawala Defends Islamic Supremacism

At radical Islamic propaganda site IslamOnline, Muslim Council of Britain spokesman Inayat Bunglawala reacts to the banning of two British extremist groups—by defending their goal of imposing Islamic rule in Britain, and by sticking up for the virulent hate group Hizb-ut-Tahrir (which has not been banned): Banned Groups Unpopular, Move Ineffective: UK Activist.
“This will not be very effective, I have no doubt about that,” Bunglawala said. “Both groups will simply change their names or go underground.”
He believes that the reasons given by the Home Office to ban the two groups are not justified.

“Calling for establishing a state with Islamic values should not be a crime,” he said.
Bunglawala fears that the move would only fan up Islamophobia, saying that it reflects the behavior of an “authoritarian government not a democracy.”
But he stressed there should not be a cause for concern among other Muslim groups, saying authorities have not banned groups like Hizb ut-Tahrir.
“Though we disagree with its agenda, I wouldn’t be pleased if Hizb ut-Tahrir was banned, because this is not a violent group,” said the MCB spokesman.
UPDATE
Here’s a little background information on Inayat Bunglawala’s pals in the Hizb-ut-Tahrir: Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami (Islamic Party of Liberation). Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami (Islamic Party of Liberation) a radical Islamic political movement that seeks ‘implementation of pure Islamic doctrine’ and the creation of an Islamic caliphate in Central Asia. The group’s aim is to resume the Islamic way of life and to convey the Islamic da’wah to the world. The ultimate goal of this secretive sectarian group is to unite the entire ummah, or Islamic world community, into a single caliphate. The aim is to bring the Muslims back to living an Islamic way of life in ‘Dar al-Islam’ [the land where the rules of Islam are being implemented, as opposed to the non-Islamic world] and in an Islamic society such that all life’s affairs in society are administered according to the Shariah rules.
Its basic aim was struggle with infidels and the organization of a universal caliphate embracing all Islamic countries. This objective means bringing the Muslims back to living an Islamic way of life in Dar al-Islam and in an Islamic society such that all of life’s affairs in society are administered according to the Shari’ah rules, and the viewpoint in it is the halal and the haram under the shade of the Islamic State, which is the Khilafah State. That state is the one in which Muslims appoint a Khaleefah and give him the bay’ah to listen and obey on condition that he rules according to the Book of Allah (swt) and the Sunnah of the Messenger of Allah (saw) and on condition that he conveys Islam as a message to the world through da’wah and jihad.
The work of Hizb ut-Tahrir is to carry the Islamic da’wah in order to change the situation of the corrupt society so that it is transformed into an Islamic society. It aims to do this by firstly changing the society’s existing thoughts to Islamic thoughts so that such thoughts become the public opinion among the people, who are then driven to implement and act upon them. The political struggle is manifested in the struggle against the disbelieving imperialists, to deliver the Ummah from their domination and to liberate her from their influence by uprooting their intellectual, cultural, political, economic and military roots from all of the Muslim countries. The political struggle also appears in challenging the rulers, revealing their treasons and conspiracies against the Ummah, and by taking them to task and changing them if they denied the rights of the Ummah, or refrained from performing their duties towards her, or ignored any matter of her affairs, or violated the laws of Islam.
The group - also known as the Islamic Party of Liberation - believes it can achieve its utopian Islamic state in three steps. The first involves educating Muslims about its philosophies and goals. In the second step, the Muslims would then spread these views among others in their countries, especially members of government, the military and other power centers. In the third and final step, Hizb ut-Tahrir believes its faithful will cause secular governments to crumble because loyalties will then lie solely with Islam - not nationalities, politics or ethnic identifications. At that point the group says a supreme Islamic leader, a Caliph like those of past centuries would rule all Muslims with both political and religious authority.