Abu Hamza al-Masri has been convicted and sentenced to seven years in prison for incitement of hate and murder, although no proof was presented of anyone being killed as a result of his sermons. The police have stated unequivocally that there is “no evidence” linking Abu Hamza to the July 7^th bombers from Leeds, but still the media insists he had them “under his spell” and bereaved families blame him directly.

Abu Hamza had a cozy relationship with MI5 agents who assured him he did not “have anything to worry about as long as we don’t see blood on the streets” but Flemming Rose has done more to recruit jihadis with offensive cartoons than Hamza ever could with his free speech. This psy-op worked like a dream for the Bush Administration as a pretext for escalating the ‘war on terror’ as we now have a “global crisis.”

Condoleezza Rice singled out Iran and Syria for special condemnation saying they “have gone out of their way to inflame sentiments and to use this to their own purposes and the world ought to call them on it.” The same could be said for Jyllands-Posten! British imams have pointed out that Hitler used similar imagery to demonise Jews before the Holocaust. The Jewish community should recognise the signs.

Abu Hamza was also accused of “legitimising anger” but Muslims have every right to be furious when an IDF sniper shoots a Palestinian child at their school desk. Should they be pleased the West is attacking Palestine, Afghanistan and Iraq, is their anger not justified? But resistance is ‘terrorism’ and according to Zionists, the slaughter engulfing the Middle East is ‘defense’ because Israel’s right to exist is paramount.

Incriminating evidence used against Abu Hamza included various paraphernalia and a picture of a hand grenade on his website, which is a worry, because I have a picture of a Stealth Bomber on mine! Yet, his punishment is insufficient for the neocon ‘sickofants’ who pen the news and after he has served his time in the UK, they want the radical cleric extradited to the US to be locked up for the rest of his life.

The only thing Abu Hamza has ever blown up is his own hands, however, the same cannot be said of the forces ‘democratising’ Islamic nations with cluster bombs, white phosphorus, depleted uranium and tactical nukes. They do not incite murder, but inflict it on an unparalleled scale, on innocent men, women and children, but retaliation is not an option for Muslims, only a crime for which they may die in detention.

Flemming Rose