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January 13, 2006
UK: Islamic Preacher Compared Britain To A Toilet
The trial of Abu Hamza, the hook-handed former Mujahideen fighter, continues, with reports from the BBC, the UK Telegraph and the Times. Hamza, real name Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, is charged on fifteen counts. Nine of these involve soliciting to murder under the 1861 Offences Against The Person Act, four charges claim he incited racial hatred, one count indicts him for possessing "offensive recordings" and one charge is made under section 58 of the Terrorism Act. This relates to a book found in his house in 2004.
On Wednesday, the court was told by prosecutor David Perry that Hamza owned a 10 volume work on terror techniques, entitled the Encyclopaedia of Afghani Jihad which detailed potential targets for attack, including Big Ben. The prosecutor told the court of some of the statements which had been made by Hamza in his sermons.
Yesterday, the jury was shown videos of these sermons, so they could view in their original context Hamza's statements against Jews, non-Muslims, Britain, and the establishment of the Caliphate, an Islamic state in Britain.
Some of the sayings quoted by Mr Perry in his opening statements appear to come from sermons made while Hamza was preaching in a public street, which his group had commandeered for their purposes of prayer and worship, at Finsbury Park. Hamza and his followers used this street off Blackstock Road after Hamza and his supporters were thrown out by the trustees of the notorious Finsbury Park Mosque.
The first video, entitled "Holy War to Khalifah", showed Hamza at a meeting in Whitechapel, from 1997 or 1998. Hamza appears, seated at a table, below a banner emblazoned with the words "Al-Jihad".
In this sermon, Hamza stated that living in Britain was little better than living in a lavatory. He stressed the need for young men to commit jihad, and to identify targets such as courts, banks and brothels. He called Britain a corrupt "kuffar country" and said "We are all under the boots of the kufr".
Some of the quotes from the two videos are found below. On the second video shown to the court, from September 1999, the Telegraph states
Hamza described Britain as a kaffir (unbeliever) country which does not apply Shariah law and is therefore at war and accused Tony Blair of killing "many of our children".Though famous for the hook which he usually has attached to his right wrist's stump, Hamza has not worn the extension during the trial. The Times today provides the quotes:He added: "Most of them are pagans; preachers have become homosexuals; churches have become places of dancing, iniquity, business, black magic, you name it."
It looks unfortunately that we have been forced to be inside a toilet . . . and some of us think they can be leaders in that toilet unfortunately. We are all under the feet and the heavy boots of the kuffar.
The first phase is called the Shawkat al-Nekaya, it is called the needle of bleeding the enemy. Like you imagine you have one small knife and you have a big animal in front of you . . . You have to stab him here and there until he bleeds to death . . . This is the first stage of jihad, destruction of the enemies of Allah.
Every court is a target and every brothel is a target and everybody who's endorsing that is a target.
The Church itself have lost every capacity it has. In the hearts and minds of people preachers have become homosexual, they have become child hazard. Churches have become places of dancing, iniquity, business, black magic, you name it. Child prostitution and everyday there is evidence of that.
The Hindus don't worship God, they worship the cow, and as far as Christians (are concerned) they don't worship God they worship Jesus, and Jews they worship their desires and Muslims, they worship Allah. So your God is different from their God.
We ask Muslims to . . . bleed the enemies of Allah anywhere by any means. You can't do it by nuclear weapon, you have to do it by kitchen knife, no other solution. You can't do it by chemical weapons, you have to do it by mice poison.
Today, the BBC and ITV News report that Hamza has said in a taped sermon that it was "OK" to kill non-Muslims and even some Muslims.
"Killing an adulterer, even if he is a Muslim is OK. Killing a Kaffir (unbeliever) who is fighting you is OK. Killing a Kaffir for any reason you can say it is OK even if there is no reason for it," he said.
In the video from 1999, entitled "Adherence to Islam in the Western World". Hamza states that Islamic beliefs should be spread with the sword: "Dawa (propagation of Islam through word and action) needs a sword next to it and also needs effort."
He said those who sold alcohol should be brought to the mosque. "Make sure that the person who gave him the licence for that wine shop doesn't exist anymore on the Earth. Finish him up. Give him Dawa. If he doesn't respect Dawa, kill him."
"You have to understand that Dawa is good but it doesn't survive alone. There is many prophets before Muhammad ... they were killed because they did not have the sword with them."
On those who spread Islam, he said one should "make sure that you save your family, you have to make sure also that you are gaining strength. You are a fighter, so when the time comes for fighting you can fight and if you want more reward in what you do, join the front line, you can take from this line. European people they can only respect you when you are strong,"
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at January 13, 2006 9:23 AM
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