It is about time this guy was asked very nicely of course to get the hell out of Britain.I have just seen him on tv surounded by young men with their faces masked,talking into 2 way radio`s on the streets of London.When asked by reporter for comments,these young men all answer at the same time,evil-doers,homosexuals,all your leaders are homosexuals.
I cannot believe that this guy has not been kicked out long ago,not by thr British goverment but by muslims who live in Britain.When asked to comment on this guy the majority of British muslims say they would have nothing to do with him,he certainly has not done the muslim community here any favours
04 February 2003
Radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza, who has called on God to destroy the United States, was dismissed from his position at a London mosque today for “inappropriate political statements.”
The Charity Commission, which suspended Mr Hamza last April as an agent of the Finsbury Park mosque, said it was making the decision permanent after rejecting an appeal from the cleric’s lawyers.
In a statement, the commission said the cleric had continued to preach at the mosque in defiance of the ban.
Officials at the mosque have complained of intimidation from Mr Hamza and a group of militant young men who support him. Those officials accuse him of drawing extremist elements to the north London building, including “shoe–bomber” Richard Reid and fundamentalists who plotted to blow up the US Embassy in Paris.
Last month, anti–terrorist police raided the mosque and seized documents, computers and other items as part of an investigation into the discovery of the deadly poison ricin in a London apartment. Seven North African men were arrested, and one was charged with terrorist offenses.
The Charity Commission said the trustees "had been prevented from governing the charity properly by the activities of Abu Hamza and his supporters.
“It also found that Mr. Hamza had used his position within the charity to make inappropriate political statements.”
The commission said it began investigating al–Masri in October 2001 after he made “extreme comments” about the September 11 terrorist attacks.
An Egyptian–born British citizen who lost his hands and left eye fighting in Afghanistan and Bosnia, Mr Hamzai is wanted in Yemen on terrorist charges and has called Britain the “land of the enemies of Islam.”
On Monday he said the loss of the space shuttle Columbia was “a punishment from God” because it carried Americans, Indian–born Hindu astronaut Kalpana Chawla and Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli in space – a 'trinity of evil".
A spokeswoman for the Charity Commission said the decision had “absolutely no connection at all” with his comments about the shuttle.
Last week, one of the mosque’s trustees vowed that Mr Hamza would never again be allowed to preach there. “We can stop him,” Abdul Kadir Burkatulla, “that is what the trustees are working out at the moment.”
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