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London imam Abu Hamza convicted of U.S. terrorism charges

May 19, 2014 3:45 pm By Robert Spencer

Artist's sketch of Abu Hamza al-Masri, the radical Islamist cleric facing U.S. terrorism charges, sits with his legal team in Manhattan federal court in New YorkThis was a foregone conclusion — or as much as any such case can be in our witless and politically correct age. Abu Hamza’s bloodthirsty pro-jihad statements are many, and his record encouraging jihad terror activity has long been a matter of public knowledge. Watch now for the claims that he is being mistreated and victimized in prison.

“London imam Abu Hamza convicted of U.S. terrorism charges,” by Joseph Ax, Reuters, May 19, 2014 (thanks to all who sent this in):

(Reuters) – London imam Abu Hamza al-Masri was convicted of terrorism charges in New York on Monday following a four-week trial that shined a spotlight on the preacher’s controversial anti-Western statements.

A jury of eight men and four women found Abu Hamza, 56, guilty on all 11 counts he faced, handing Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara his second high-profile terrorism conviction in three months. The defendant could face life in prison.

In March, a different jury found Suleiman Abu Ghaith, a son-in-law of Osama bin Laden, guilty of terrorism-related charges.

Prosecutors had charged the one-eyed, handless Abu Hamza with providing a satellite phone and advice to a group of Yemeni militants who kidnapped Western tourists in 1998. Four of the hostages were killed during a rescue mission by the Yemeni military.

Abu Hamza, who was indicted in the United States in 2004 under his birth name, Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, also was accused of dispatching two followers to Oregon to establish a militant training facility and sending an associate to Afghanistan to help al Qaeda and the Taliban.

Lawyers for Abu Hamza argued that he did not participate in any conspiracy. They said the government’s case rested largely on the incendiary language he employed in media interviews and the sermons he gave at the Finsbury Park mosque in north London, which earned him notoriety as one of Britain’s most prominent radical Islamic voices.

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  1. Jax Tolmen says

    May 19, 2014 at 3:58 pm

    Can you please just shoot him, then the Leftist sooks and apologists won’t have to be complain about how the poor, poor mass – murdering psychopath is being treated in prison.

    I had always thought that charges as serious as Terrorism and Treason should carry a mandatory death sentence, not that it would really bother the idiotic ‘martyrs’ with their lunatic belief in their supposed afterlife.

    I can’t recall the name of the man, but wasn’t there an American officer who executed Muslim prisoners with bullets dipped in pigs blood? If only.

    • logdon says

      May 20, 2014 at 6:17 am

      The dhimmi EU court of human rights demanded that he could only be extradited if the death sentence was waived.

    • Rezali Mehil says

      May 20, 2014 at 10:48 am

      Hello Jax,

      May I say first of all that you have an unusual yet compelling 1st name J-a-x.
      Is it short for something …like a mis-spelling of Jackal?

      Anyway …I have no sympathy for captain Hook… do what you want but please …keep it Halal.

      1) Do not talk about messing the after life. This is to be a Looooong time so you must action those things that will help you in this regard whilst in this life….so a much more inner spiritual jihad outlook is required here…Captain Hook in all likely hood messed his up …that does not mean you should try to influence mine for example..which is entirely honorable and peaceful.

      2) there is also the before life …where ..when in your mother’s womb …you are punching with your fists…and kicking out …promising Allah SWT as your honorable aims to be a good muslim …

      ….in essence you are always a muslim …in the before life , this life and the after life.

      The pity I feel for is idiots like Captain Hook who was born in the light of Islam…..and people like you who on the surface seem to know of the power and purity of Islam …but want to ignore it …much to your disadvantage. ….Think about it Jax …look carefully …there is still time for you to convert….don’t waste another minute …please…..please….do the needful.

      More Later….

      Rezali

      • gravenimage says

        May 23, 2014 at 2:18 pm

        The repulsive Rezali Mehil wrote, replying to Jax Tolmen:

        Hello Jax,

        May I say first of all that you have an unusual yet compelling 1st name J-a-x.
        Is it short for something …like a mis-spelling of Jackal?
        …………………………………

        Here’s the sickening Rezali Mehil, implying that anyone who dares to stand against violent Jihad is a “Jackal”. And why not? She hates all non-dhimmi Infidels—and despises all dhimmis.

        More:

        Anyway …I have no sympathy for captain Hook… do what you want but please …keep it Halal.

        1) Do not talk about messing the after life. This is to be a Looooong time so you must action those things that will help you in this regard whilst in this life….so a much more inner spiritual jihad outlook is required here…Captain Hook in all likely hood messed his up …that does not mean you should try to influence mine for example..which is entirely honorable and peaceful.
        …………………………………

        Good God, what crap. Firstly, what deity rewards rapists and mass murderers with a bordello-like “paradise”, but would deny Jannah to a faithful follower because he tripped over a carnitas (pork) burrito and fell into the path of an oncoming taxi?

        Only the baleful “Allah”.

        And notice how coy Rezali Mehil is about Abu Hamza possibly “messing up” his afterlife? She has made if *very* clear that she doesn’t consider waging violent Jihad grounds for such ‘messing up’. And how could she? Waging violent Jihad is Islam’s highest value.

        As for herself, doesn’t she know that the “Prophet” himself said that the main inhabitants of hell are women? One of the few ways Muslimahs can achieve entrance to paradise is by either marrying or giving birth to a future “Shaheed”—Jihadist suicide “Martyr”—which Rezali doesn’t appear to have managed.

        What she *has* done, though, is to offer up endless apologia here for abduction, rape, pedophilia, and “Honor Killing”—as well as barely veiled threats for those Infidels who fail to convert to her horrifying creed. How “peaceful and honorable” is this?

        No doubt she thinks this Da’wa will be a ticket to her spending eternity watching her husband endlessly deflowering those 72 Houris and molesting those “pearly boys”, though. This is as good as it gets for Muslimahs in Islam…*Ugh*.

        More:

        2) there is also the before life …where ..when in your mother’s womb …you are punching with your fists…and kicking out …promising Allah SWT as your honorable aims to be a good muslim …

        ….in essence you are always a muslim …in the before life , this life and the after life.
        …………………………………

        More of the usual—that all Infidels are actually apostates, and that we aggressively promised Allah that we would rape little girls, hate Jews, “Honor Kill” our ‘disobedient’ relatives, and slaughter Infidels while in utero, and then reneged on our solemn promises. What a grotesque vision…

        And this is why pious Muslims refer to witless Infidel converts as “reverts”.

        More:

        The pity I feel for is idiots like Captain Hook who was born in the light of Islam
        …………………………………

        Notice she never actually says what she thinks Abu Hamza is getting wrong…

        More:

        …..and people like you who on the surface seem to know of the power and purity of Islam …but want to ignore it …much to your disadvantage. ….
        …………………………………

        What we see every day here at Jihad Watch is the ugliness and horror of Islam—only a pious Muslimah would consider the kidnapping and mass rape of schoolgirls, church burnings, the attack on a civilian mall, and the beheading of an off-duty soldier in a London street to be indicative of “power and purity”—how disgusting. *Ugh*.

  2. tpellow says

    May 19, 2014 at 4:09 pm

    Supplementary.

    “Hate preacher Abu Hamza found guilty in US court of helping Al-Qaeda terrorists”

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2633025/London-cleric-convicted-NYC-terrorism-trial.html#ixzz32C5x0BEb

  3. Kenny says

    May 19, 2014 at 4:49 pm

    What an opportunity to impose the death penalty!

  4. tpellow says

    May 19, 2014 at 5:18 pm

    Supplementary.

    “Abu Hamza guilty:
    Former imam of Finsbury Park mosque convicted of assisting terror groups.”

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/abu-hamza-guilty-former-imam-of-finsbury-park-mosque-convicted-of-assisting-terror-groups-9399776.html

  5. Stuart Smith says

    May 19, 2014 at 6:32 pm

    Well at last someone willing to find these maggots guilty, we know they all are, so America if you want we can send you a lot more, please say yes because we got millions we want rid of.

  6. dumbledoresarmy says

    May 19, 2014 at 11:52 pm

    What beats me is why that Finsbury Park mosque is still standing.

    It’s a forward military base established by a hostile power, that’s what it is.

    It should have been shut down and razed to the ground years ago.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      May 19, 2014 at 11:56 pm

      You can see a picture of the damn thing – complete with sniper tower (ahem: “minaret”) here.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_London_Central_Mosque

      It is HIDEOUS. It exudes aggression.

      Excerpt from its wiki entry:

      “Al Qaeda operatives including “shoebomber” Richard Reid and Zacarias Moussaoui attended the mosque.
      “In 2002, The Guardian reported that weapons training had taken place inside the building.”
      And *that* is when it should have been surprise-searched, and shut down, permanently.

    • Salah says

      May 20, 2014 at 2:45 am

      You mean…like this?
      http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2010/09/awakening-in-algerialalgerie-se.html

    • Mirren10 says

      May 20, 2014 at 6:50 am

      ”What beats me is why that Finsbury Park mosque is still standing”

      Because we mustn’t paint all mohammedans ‘with a broad brush’, of course ! And it would be dreadful to raze a ‘house of worship’ !

      Now old Hamza has been removed, I’m quite sure all the subsequent imams will be preaching sermons of peace and love, and how to integrate with the kufr …

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        May 21, 2014 at 12:10 am

        Here’s a plan.

        Bug the lot of them.

        Every single known mosque throughout the West (and in India and the Philippines and Thailand, and non-Muslim Africa).

        Bug the ablutions block, bug the “prayer hall”, bug every room in the place, bug them from floor to ceiling.

        Surreptitiously.

        Bug the imam’s house and the premises (home, business) of any associated Important People who hang out round the mosque.

        I’ll *bet* our spooks could do it, if they put their minds to it.

        Then: listen in, watch and wait. The eavesdroppers – and translators, as necessary – would be *non-Muslims*. Urdu-speaking Pakistani Christians, Bengali Christians and Hindus, Jews and non-dhimmi Christians who speak the relevant varieties of Arabic, Parsees and Jews who speak Farsi.

        And when the jihad plots start being discussed, and the worse-than-der-Stuermer Jew-hatred starts to be ravingly ranted, all the rest of it, then the simultaneous

        Listen to the ‘chatter’ among the “worshippers”, and listen to the regular imam and the ‘guest preachers’.

        I BET that there would soon enough be cause to conduct a surprise raid by law enforcement and/ or Special Forces and search the place from attic to basement, making multiple arrests and putting all the “bag” through the third degree.

        Followed by trials and mass deportations; and the very public shutting down and *razing to the ground* of every mosque that had been patently revealed to be nothing but a focus of Organised Crime and/ or Command and Control Centre for infiltrationand subversion of and indeed open warfare against the host society.

        • dumbledoresarmy says

          May 21, 2014 at 12:12 am

          Oops. Forgot to proofread.

          Read “And when the jihad plots start being discussed, and the worse-than-der-Stuermer Jew-hatred starts to be ravingly ranted, all the rest of it, then the simultaneous surprise raids should take place”.

  7. Lookmann says

    May 20, 2014 at 1:55 am

    ‘The defendant could face life in prison.’

    I was hoping for death sentence. Nothing short of that will deter jihadis.

    • Mirren10 says

      May 20, 2014 at 6:04 am

      It wouldn’t ‘deter’ them, since they apparently all ” love death”, but at least we wouldn’have to feed and shelter them for the remainder of their miserable lives.

      A swift, *immediately * carried out death sentence, with no nonsense about appeals, and no opportunities to grandstand either. That’s the ticket.

  8. UK Infidel says

    May 20, 2014 at 3:00 am

    He could never get the death sentence. If he faced that the UK would not have been allowed to extradite him.

    • gravenimage says

      May 23, 2014 at 2:24 pm

      Yup—this is true. The UK—really, no member of the EU—will ever allow extradition if the death penalty is on the table, no matter *how* heinous the crimes.

  9. Paddy says

    May 20, 2014 at 4:53 am

    Elated over the conviction…just hope the judge will follow through with the maximum sentence possible AND I sincerely hope the authorities here in the Uk will start coming down much harder on spreaders of fear, intimidation, ignorance and hate.

  10. Aardvark says

    May 20, 2014 at 5:08 am

    “Watch now for the claims that he is being mistreated and victimized in prison.”

    Yes, because he is likely to get a life sentence. He will be living a life of comparative luxury – free food, free clothing, infinite leisure to plan more evil – funded by the American taxpayer.

    It would be simpler, quicker, and far more just to execute this vermin.

    • John Stefan Obeda says

      May 20, 2014 at 1:38 pm

      It is very upsetting that the people of the U.S. and Canada too and the U.K. too, simply ignore what God tells us in His Book, who ignore not only the one and only way for the forgiveness of sins (Jesus), but the leaders of our country also ignore the protection that God gives us through our government, that is, execution. Let me quote: “. . . for he [the government] is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer.” (Romans 14). The “sword” which the writer has in mind is the sword of execution. So we “suffer” and have to keep alive another person who deserves to be executed because we have people who think that they are smarter than God Who created all things and sent us a Saviour from our sins.

  11. Shirley Kingsley says

    May 20, 2014 at 5:44 am

    Robert Spencer, you know these people so well that you can now predict their behaviour. I shan’t now be surprised when I hear the complaints of mistreatment in prison and look forward to saying ‘told you so’ on your behalf.

  12. JIMJFOX says

    May 20, 2014 at 7:57 am

    “It would be simpler, quicker, and far more just to execute this vermin”

    Not to mention CHEAP. Allowing this slug to live at taxpayers’ expense is another victory for Islam; he will also be most welcome to continue his jihad from prison…

  13. Reality Check says

    May 20, 2014 at 11:20 am

    “Lawyers for Abu Hamza argued that he did not participate in any conspiracy. They said the government’s case rested largely on the incendiary language he employed in media interviews and the sermons he gave at the Finsbury Park mosque in north London, which earned him notoriety as one of Britain’s most prominent radical Islamic voices.”

    I don’t care what he didn’t participate in – any Muslim using an incendiary language against the country that gave him a living standard he couldn’t dream about in his native shit hole must do a painfully long time in prison before being kicked back to the badly planned, badly executed, badly led and profoundly unfair Middle East for good.

    In the meantime, he must be deprived of any access to the Internet and other relaxing pastimes that make prison a little better. A prison is a prison for a reason and is supposed to teach a lesson, such as what happens when you break the law and what the difference is between the life of a law-abiding citizen and the life a criminal who has no respect for the society he lives in.

    Many prisons are not what they should be today and many prisoners are not made to feel much deprivation that will make them want to never break the law. It’s because some soft liberal heads bought into the idea that criminals are human beings like those they hurt and terrified and have human rights. Just keep them locked and deny them basic luxuries, except for food, bath and sleep, and let’s see if they will dare to be bold again.

    • Reality Check says

      May 20, 2014 at 11:30 am

      Of course, as somebody noted above, executing this ugly Muslim vermin will be much more cost-effective than leaving him alive because he will preach hatred and murder against us as long as he breathes. Just fry him on the electrical chair or administer the lethal injection – that will nip so many problems in the bud. It is such a pity that the capital punishment is not allowed in Europe anymore.

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