the party was banned and were temporary residents of Britain, but in 1993 expanded its targets for recruitment to include second generation Muslim immigrants. By the mid-1990s, Hizb was "a fixture on university campuses, organising societies and debates", known for its "fierce" rhetoric, young audiences, and aloofness from other Muslim organizations or initiatives. It also reportedly engaged in vigilantism against non-Muslims, "prowling London, fighting Indian Sikhs in the west and African Christians in the east", and pressuring Muslim women to wear the hijab. By the mid-1990s the mainstream British press was quoting HT pamphlets urging Muslims to, "throw a stone, trigger a bomb, plant mine, hijack a plane, do not ask how", and reporting that many mosque officials felt "besieged" by HT party activists. and insisting "Peace with Israel" was "a Crime Against Islam". The president of the National Union of Students (NUS), declared HTB as ‘the single biggest extremism threat in Britain at the moment’. Then from 1996 to 2001 the party "went silent" reportedly abandoning "controversial public rallies and combative debates on campuses". Bakri left to found another Islamist organization Al-Muhajiroun. In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks in 2001 HTB again raised its profile, focusing on the death and destruction resulting from the US invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, emphasizing the ‘clash of civilisations’ between "Capitalist Western civilisation" and Islam and what they and many Muslims believed was Western "oppression" of Muslims. A 2005 internal party communique called for increasing party activity within British Muslim communities and engaging with non-Muslims to warn them that "the principles of Western culture do not solve the problems of society" which "are drowning in crime and corruption". The party improved its public image in Britain enough that plans to ban HT were opposed by British Muslim organizations, "across social, political and cultural affiliations", A 2002 HTB conference in London drew 6,500 people, and a conference the next year in Birmingham drew 7,000. However an August 2003 BBC Newsnight report "discovered" that the HTB website "promotes racism and anti-Semitic hatred, calls suicide bombers martyrs, and urges Muslims to kill Jewish people," and in 2004, the National Union of Students (NUS) Conference passed a motion applying its "No Platform Policy" to HT, claiming the party was supporting terrorism and inciting racial hatred. The party demonstrated for hijab at the French embassy in London protesting France's March 2004 law banning the wearing of religious