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| Brits: 'Hit the road, Abu!' |
| 2003-01-20 |
| Colorful prose style courtesy the original source, link courtesy Drudge... HATE-FILLED Muslim cleric Abu Hamza is being urged to quit the country â before Britain kicks him out. Furious opponents, including Muslims, rounded on the hook-handed fanatic yesterday after ricin plot suspects were held at his mosque. Their calls piled pressure on Home Secretary David Blunkett, who has already ordered cops to nail the 45-year-old Egyptian firebrand â wanted in Yemen over an alleged terrorist bomb plot. Sounds good, but so far it's nothing but a suggestion... Last night it emerged Hamzaâs British citizenship could be revoked under the new Nationality Immigration and Asylum Act, due to become law this spring. Hamza, who lost an eye and both hands fighting the Russians in Afghanistan, became a citizen after wedding Briton Valerie Fleming in 1984. Or maybe he lost 'em playing with explosives, after the Russers were gone... But a Home Office spokeswoman said: âThe Secretary of State may deprive a person of citizenship status if satisfied that person has done anything seriously prejudicial to the vital interests of the UK.â In a rational world, that would include working toward the overthrow of the state... However, she stressed any foreigner deprived of British citizenship must have an alternative state to go to first. Yemen's nice this time of year... Hamza accused cops of âRamboâ tactics after 150 swarmed into the mosque hunting members of a gang producing killer poison ricin. But fellow Muslim leader Dr Mohammed Sekkoum led angry calls for his expulsion. Dr Sekkoum, leader of the Algerian Refugee Council, raged: âThe police should shut down the mosque and remove Hamza and his followers from the country.â Cheeze, even his fellow Muslims can't stand him... Iqbal Sacranie, secretary general of the influential Muslim Council of Great Britain, said: âIt amazes the Muslim community no action has been taken against a man whoâs made the utterances this man has. These fringe elements feed Islamaphobia.â Almost as much as the explosives do, Iqbal... Labour MP Andrew Dismore, who has monitored Hamzaâs activities for more than three years, said: âIt would be no loss if he was no longer here. Thereâs sufficient evidence for him to be charged with incitement.â The place would smell better, and it would be a lot prettier... Anti-crime crusader Norman Brennan added: âMy message to him is simple â get out.â Ah, but the purveyors of warm milk and multiculturalism haven't counterattacked and called you a racist yet, Norm. Aux barricades! They should be here any moment! Hamza, who lives in a council house in Shepherdâs Bush, West London, claimed cops raided the mosque where he preaches in revenge for the killing of Manchester detective Stephen Oake last week. Yep. Just a poor holy man, living in his welfare housing, on the dole like the other po' downtrodden enthusiasts for Armed Struggleâ¢... Hamza, widely criticised for his inflammatory speeches, said the raid backed up PM Tony Blairâs âwar against UK Muslimsâ. He added: âThe people inside included a cleaner, a chef and two guards. It was a provocative act. You are trying to make an enemy out of nothing.â A cleaner, a chef, and two guards... Wonder what tasty viands they were cooking up, that they needed a couple hard boys to guard them? The Charity Commission last week withdrew Hamzaâs charity status â opening the way for the Government to kick him out of the country. But he said of any possible expulsion: âI donât have a place to go.â "Youse guys can't dump me. Y'got no place to dump me to!" Hamza arrived from Egypt as a student in 1981 and boosted his income by working as a "Mahmoud, hit him there again!" "But I already confessed!" "We don't like you!" "Ow! I'll confess to something else, too! Just don't hit me there again!" The leader, Abu Hassan, led the kidnap of 16 Western tourists and told his gunmen to murder as many as they could when Yemeni soldiers tried to rescue them. Four, including three Britons, died. That's why they didn't like them... Last night a Whitehall source said: âThe Home Secretary could look at extradition. But weâve no treaty with Yemen and he would not be sent there due to the harshness of the judicial system.â Well, make a damned exception, knotheads! Where's my rotten fruit? Hell. I can't toss it that far anyway... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #4 I'm with Aussie: if you don't stomp on those who wear their extreme views on their sleeves, you'll get in trouble by association. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2003-01-21 10:22:43 |
| #3 Dump him on the Chunnel train with a ticket to Paris and the robes on his back. |
| Posted by: mojo 2003-01-21 02:54:44 |
| #2 If there are any moderate Muslims reading this, you really have to stamp on these guys like Christians have to do to our fanatics (White Supremacists mostly), would you be sitting comfortably if we allowed our leaders to call for another Crusade? (Which we have evolved past by the way Extremists, if your listening). Australia has Muslims coming in boatloads to get away from Sharia law gone bad. |
| Posted by: Aussie 2003-01-20 21:46:05 |
| #1 Can't they take him on an escorted safari to the Empty Quarter? |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-01-20 21:35:33 |