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.
They had a silly Logo. Saying something like "Scotland Yard working for you", which was in a handwritten style and was on their vehicles, paper, everything etc. The 1st thing he did was have it changed to a printed style, as quote "the visualy impaired, might have difficulty reading it".
A person who's incapable of distinguishing between a silly little message of reassurance and vital public safety information—between what's inessential and what's essential—is a fool and a danger to himself and others.
Upper-class twit-ism is alive and well at the Yard, I guess. Best of luck, Londoners—you're going to need it.
One is left to wonder why this freak of religion is still sucking air.
Thanks for the update. I guess he will be extra considerate so that he doesn't hurt the self-esteem of crazed Muslim bombers.
Very good rhetorical question. Because they are the ones who have wives and relative wealth. They incite the young men who do not have resources and are consumed with envy. My guess.
It is past time for London to elect a new mayor and not one, who loves the mass murdering Jihadists:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1024351/posts
Consider the Source (Mayor of London calls Bush "greatest threat to life on planet")
Sacred Cow Burgers ^ | 11/18/2003 | Sacred Cow Burgers
Posted on 11/18/2003 12:28:18 PM PST by Prime Choice
So Mayor of London Livingstone says President Bush is the "greatest threat to life on the planet", huh?
Is it any wonder who puts these ridiculous ideas in his head?
-Or-
Could be viewed like this:
"Muslim Clerics urged (insert your favorite infidel entity here) Attacks.
Sort of sums up the past 20 years or so.
Dunno. Let's think a minute.
Traditionally when any of the old Biblical patriarchs wanted to talk to God the climbed a mountain and found him close to heaven, in the fresh air and sunshine, where they often saw him face to face (or face to burning bush).
Our heroes are Angels of Light
When mohammad talked to god, he wasn't looking for him, but was found by an entity of darkness in a dank cave, an entity who hid in the shadows, and spoke his piece as a disembodied voice, never daring to show his face.
Their heroes are angels of darkness...
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