Posted on 07/08/2005 1:22:15 PM PDT by Carl/NewsMax
As Londoners recover from bombing attacks that left 50 people dead and 1,000 wounded yesterday, suspicion is focusing on a radical Muslim cleric who urged his flock to commit suicide bombing attacks in Britain and preached anti-Semitic hate from his mosque in Finsbury Park.
Abu Hamza al-Masri went on trial in London this week, charged by British officials with incitement to murder and other terrorist offenses.
But the activities of his followers - like convicted shoe bomber Richard Reid and the so-called 20th hijacker, Zacarias Moussaoui - suggest that Hamza's rhetoric may have helped spur new attacks.
For years before his Finsbury Park mosque was shut down in 2003, Hamza preached jihad, urging his followers to carry out suicide attacks against British citizens. "Our immediate duty now is to correct our own homeland," Hamza urged, according to tapes released to the British press in April 2004.
"You don't have to travel thousands and thousands of miles to become a shaheed [martyr] - you can be shaheed right on your own doorstep. This is the best jihad."
After the 9/11 attacks, Hamza could barely contain his delight, proclaiming: "Many people will be happy, jumping up and down. America is a crazy superpower and what was done was done in self-defense."
Labour MP Andrew Dismore, who has pleaded with British officials for years to deport Hamza, said his recorded statements "reveal the truth and confirm what a lot of us have been saying for some time. They show that he is a racist, anti-Semitic and a supporter of terrorism."
Even after British officials closed his mosque, Hamza continued to advocate suicide attacks.
"Seek the way of death; try to do actions that subject you to death," he told an audience of mostly young men shortly before his arrest last year. "If you die to defend your religion, you are a martyr."
U.S. prosecutors have also charged Hamza in connection with a hostage-taking in Yemen six years ago and an attempt to set up a terror training camp in Bly, Oregon.
Abu Hamza al-Masri went on trial in London this week, charged by British officials with incitement to murder and other terrorist offenses.
Duh.........
No, I don't have any problem with that whatsoever. The suicidal, who keep parroting "we are better than them" can soon also be "deader than them".
Me? I have a different outlook on the matter.
Shut it down. Search the place and the homes of all members.
You'd think that Scotland Yard might've been on the lookout for some of this bozo's followers this week, huh?
Shoot the bastard!
why is it that the people who shout loudest to be a martyr are never the ones who attempt to become one themself?
Abu Hamster's hooks should be buried in his nether passage!
In other news, the ACLU has asked to intervene in the case of al-Masri because he cannot possible get a fair trial in the wake of terrorists attacks in London. Al Numbnutts of the ACLU appealed to the sense of fair play for which the English are famous when he said, "How can you try ad admitted terrorist for inciting terror at a time when the general population is so irrationally angry at Islamic terrorism."
Many British polled were in favor of letting al-Masri go however, they kept referring to it as a head start . . .
cut his head off.
Put his head on a pike at Heathrow airport.
Good timing for a bombing. I'm glad somebody else noticed.
" Many British polled were in favor of letting al-Masri go however, they kept referring to it as a head start . . ."
And this is why the Muslims find it so easy. Farmer puts up a sign. All fox are welcome to enter my hen house. Please be nice.
There ought to be a law against advocating civilian violence. There are probably 20,000 such laws, but maybe they need one more.
It's a joke.
Special Branch's job.
Well, we finally found that guy preaching hate, glad that's over
Everyone go back to doing what you were, nothing to see here, move alone...
"they kept referring to it as a head start . . ." It's a joke.
Roger.
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