Usman (Uthman) Badar was Hizb ut-Tahrir Australia's media representative through the 2010s, best known for a 2014 Sydney Festival of Dangerous Ideas session on "honour killings" that was cancelled amid public backlash, and 2017 comments in Bankstown that apostates "attract capital punishment." No public appearance speaking for HT Australia has been found since 2017; 2026 media coverage of the organisation's ban continues to cite his older clips, while the organisation's current spokesperson is Wassim Doureihi. He is recorded here as a historical HT Australia figure, not a current one.
In March 2017 a Daily Mail Australia reporter put clause 7(c) of Hizb ut-Tahrir's draft Caliphate constitution to him, under which a person born Muslim who leaves Islam is declared an apostate and killed. He replied: "The ruling of apostasy in Islam is clear... apostates do attract capital punishment, and we don't shy away from that, we don't shy from saying that."
Affiliations
Hizb ut-Tahrir Australia — former media representative (historical, last confirmed public role 2017)
Daily Mail Australia - filmed with HT's Sydney spokesman Uthman Badar on killing apostates, March 2017 (video): "apostates do attract capital punishment, and we don't shy away from that"
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