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Abu Hamza "Captain
Hook" al-Masri

Abu Hamza al-Masri, the former
imam of the radical north London Finsbury Park Mosque,
defended suicide bombings in a British court today, saying
that they are an appropriate form of warfare and "the
highest form of martyrdom," The Times reports.
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He's on trial
in the UK for inciting murder and race hatred. (Editors
note:He was convicted and is now incarcerated in the UK.)Surprised?
You shouldn't be. Convicted shoe bomber Richard Reid and the
alleged 20th 9/11 hijacker, Zacarias Moussaoui, are said to
be former worshippers at the Finsbury Park Mosque. Al-Masri's
son, Mohammed Mustafa Kamel, served a three year sentence in
Yemen for taking part in a bombing campaign there. "Captain
Hook" made the outrageous claim three years ago that God
caused the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, saying: "These
missions would increase the number of satellites for
military purposes. It would increase the slavery of
governance of other countries by America. It is a punishment
from God. Muslims see it that way. It is a trinity of evil
because it carried Americans, an Israeli and a Hindu, a
trinity of evil against Islam. The fact that the motor of
the craft fell on Palestine - all these are messages from
God. It is a strong message, for the Israeli, to be taken up
there to space and he spoke about the Holocaust, to try to
make religious advancement from it and gain some moral high
ground, hence you have seen this message over Palestine." |