HizbelHur, 2007
Wikipedia intervention and printed matter
HizbelHur, 2007
Wikipedia intervention and printed matter
Hizbulhur (The Free Party) first emerged in 1979 under the teachings of Arab nationalist singer Aysha Bin Nazal. Aysha Bin Nazal was born in Haifa in 1948 to the daughter of sugar distribution tycoon Khalil Abdel Rahman Bin Nazal. Following the 1948 Palestinian exodus, the family moved to the West Bank town of Nablus. It was there that Aysha adopted the political teachings of Scholar Othman Abdel Zaki, who sought the ‘return of liberalism to its sources’ in his underground group known as the Collective.
In 1967 the family once again relocated to Amman. Confronted with failing Arab Nationalist movements, Aysha developed the beginnings of one of the worlds most sophisticated underground movements that later became known as “The Jama“ (The League). The movement was named after their initial meetings in the Arab League Café in Amman. Aysha preached her way to political fame in small town coffee houses across the Arab world. She reached the heights of her political career after being sentenced to life imprisonment for sabotage in 1980. This happened as soon as she went underground and began the beginnings of the Leagues armed struggle.
Throughout her 27 years in prison, Aysha broadcast live radio speeches and became one of the worlds most widely known figures becoming a cultural icon across the Arab world. The most famous of her speeches was the live broadcast for Sawt Al Qahira (Voice of Cairo Radio Station) on Cairo’s Tahrir Square (Midan el-Tahrir) which drew over 2 million gatherers.
In 1989 the Jama published its “Al Hurryeih Fil Fikr“ (Freedom is in Thought) Manifesto which lead to the creation of Hizbulhur, catapulting Aysha as their spiritual leader into the premiership for the first three years and eventually to the creation of a new political dictatorship beginning in 2001. The term liberal fascism would later be applied to an entire cluster or genus of new revolutionary-fascist-liberal movements in the Arab World between its many wars.
The United Nations Security Council, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the European Union, the United States, Australia, Canada, Israel, Japan, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Russia, Sweeden, and Switzerland, Jordan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia have all labeled Hizbulhur a terrorist organization.
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