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Berm Bandit - did you mean Abu Qatada?
Nope definately mean Abu Hamza al-Masari.
As I understand, Abu Hamza is wanted in Yemen in connection with bomb plots - not for preaching hatred
Bit of a wriggle there if you don't mind me saying so Ernie. Please quote the names of at least three people who are wanted for blowing people up on the basis that they liked them very much indeed. In return I shall ride my bike naked around my local forest for one hour, obviously on the basis that you reciprocate should you be unable to do so.
hi guys, new to the forum
this is some deep shit you guys are talking here, very enlightening.
almost like a modern day history lesson.
he has never talked in violent terms about his subject (radical Islamists) the way radical Islamists have been known to talk about... well... pretty much anyone who isn't a radical Islamist.
He doesn't seem to draw much, if any, of a distinction between terrorists and Muslims. If he does then he's astonishingly bad at expressing it. And the reason his film stops short of advocating violence against Muslims is pretty obvious - he'd be charged with inciting religious hatred (which has happened anyway).
He doesn't really have anything to say apart from condemning Islam as an irredeemably violent religion - based on the actions of a handful of its supporters, some cherry-picked verses from the Koran, and the actions of a couple of political regimes whose human rights abuses are widely known and condemned, usual by organisations such as Amnesty who don't resort to offending several million followers of a religion. Even if you accept that his polemic is somehow meant with the best of intentions, I can't see what it offers in the way of constructive solutions.
I once saw a documentary about "Sheikh" Bakree. At one point, he was walking through an HMV with the film crew and interviewer when he passed a cardboard cutout of the "Spice Girls". He simpered at the camera and said:
"Who are these spicy whimmen? They must be arrested immediately!"
Musical considerations apart - what a ridiculous little gnome he is... 🙄