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| Abu Hamza not allowed back in raided mosque, says trustee |
| 2003-01-27 |
| Abu Hamza, the militant Islamic preacher, will not return to Finsbury Park mosque since the recent police raid, one of its trustees pledged yesterday. Abdul Kadir Burkatulla said the north London mosque would remain closed for at least three months while it was cleaned of what he called "physical and spiritual filth". Need a whole lot of disinfectent Mr Burkatulla also predicted that no other mosque would allow Abu Hamza to voice his extremist views. "Those who misuse the mosque facilities are banned by the injunction of the Koran that they should not be allowed to re-enter and misuse the name of God and the places of worship for their own purpose," Mr Burkatulla said. "We can stop him. That is what the trustees are working out at the moment. "The worshipful can come, but those known to be mischief- makers, they can be excluded and they will be excluded. "I don't think any other mosque will now allow Abu Hamza to come as a preacher there, anywhere." There were mixed feelings about the police raid which shut the mosque last week, Mr Burkatulla said. "We welcome this opportunity to cleanse the mosque from the physical filth and from the spiritual filth that has been spilled over by some unwanted people," he said. "We are sorry, and happy also. Sorry that it happened in a manner which is really bad publicity for the mosque and the Muslim community. "But we are happy to get rid of one of the most extremist elements in Muslim society." Abu Hamza, who says he lost his hands and an eye while he was fighting the Russians in Afghanistan, used force to get his own way in the mosque, Mr Burkatulla told the BBC Radio 4 PM programme. Mr Burkatulla himself had been bundled out of the building by Abu Hamza's supporters while trying to serve an injunction on the preacher. "He used intimidation, verbal abuse and even physical use of force to exclude trustees, to bully them and intimidate them to surrender to certain of his demands," he said. "They have been threatened verbally and even assaulted in the mosque to the extent that they are too frightened to speak." Beginning to get their voices back. Hope this thug is expelled soon, or tossed in the jug. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #5 A complete raid has never been made on the Finsbury terror center, which poses as a religious place. Before the raid was conducted, Brit police passed out leaflets in Muslim dominated neighborhoods - dar-fanatics - explaining the service. Also, police stopped at the terror center doors, placed booties over their shoes, and explained why they were going to evade service through most of the building. Public |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-01-27 19:04:13 |
| #4 I wasn't drinking anything when I read about the biohazard suits, but the top of my scalp literally JUMPED. I swear. It was the WIERDEST PHYSICAL reaction I EVER experienced above my neck... |
| Posted by: Ptah 2003-01-27 18:04:06 |
| #3 Guffaw! - luckily I decided to take a swig *after* reading that last comment.... |
| Posted by: Tony 2003-01-27 16:56:37 |
| #2 What, did they grease the doorknobs? Let's see hookboy get in here now. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-01-27 16:17:00 |
| #1 Poison warfare suits found in mosque raid BRITISH police investigating a terror plot by Islamic saboteurs have found chemical warfare protection suits in a north London mosque. The discovery has shocked detectives, who believe the find confirms supporters of Osama bin Laden were planning a poison attack on civilian targets in Britain. Scotland Yard and MI5 detectives had kept the discovery of the nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) suits secret. They feared disclosing it would spark panic. Government ministers have warned any suggestion that the Finsbury Park mosque had been involved would have worrying racist overtones. Police initially revealed they had seized a cache of weapons, including a stun gun, an imitation rifle and a gas canister. Detectives last night confirmed that the protective suits were being tested to establish if there was any trace of ricin or any other poison. The Finsbury Park mosque has a notorious reputation because of its use by radical Muslim clerical Abu Hamza to preach holy war against Britain and the US. Two of Hamza's devotees include failed suicide bombers Richard Reid - who tried to detonate a shoe bomb while flying from Paris to the US - and Zacrias Moussaoui, who the FBI claims was to have been the 20th hijacker in the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington in 2001. http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,5893857%255E663,00.html |
| Posted by: Okidiver 2003-01-27 16:55:47 |