Abu Hamza and his passport

'The Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Siac) agreed with Hamza. The 52-year-old was jailed for seven years in February 2006 for inciting murder and race hate. He is currently at Belmarsh Prison, where he is challenging attempts to extradite him to the US on terror charges. That case was delayed by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg in July. Attempts to take Hamza’s passport away were launched in 2003 but have been postponed due to other legal actions against him.

In his Siac ruling, Mr Justice Mitting said: “We are satisfied on balance of probabilities that if a deprivation order were to be made, the appellant (Hamza) would be made stateless.”'

So? Why should this country spend any time worrying about the rights of Abu Hamza? He has made his views quite clear and was jailed for seven years in 2006 for inciting murder and racial hatred.

The European Court of Human Rights stopped the UK from extraditing Abu Hamza to the USA; the court said the possible length of US jail terms - life without parole - raised concerns about breaches of the European human rights code and needed further examination before a final ruling.

Now the Special Immigration Appeals Commission say that he must not be deprived of his passport.

Let's remember the words of Abu Hamza and ask why this person is owed anything by this country that he hates so much:

Calling for Britons to become suicide bombers in the UK - "We ask Allah to make us mujahideen (holy warriors). We ask Allah to make us shaheed. Our immediate duty now is to correct our own homeland. So let us open our eyes, let us not go for jihad which is far away from our countries.

"Although it is good it is not as good as you do in your own door. You don't have to travel thousands and thousands of miles to become a shaheed - you can be shaheed right on your own doorstep. May Allah open our eyes for what's good for us - so we don't waste our Muslim blood far away."'


On the coming world domination by Islam - "The real weapons of mass destruction are the desire for martyrdom. Millions of you are ready to be shaheed. Half a million martyrdom shaheed is enough for Muslims to control the whole of earth forever. In the end of the day, Islam must control earth, whether we like it or not."

On why all Israelis are legitimate targets - "All the Israelis are fighters. That's why anybody over 15 is a warrior and he should be killed..."