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TIME ON HIS HANDS

Popular Islamist orator Abu Hamza al-Masri has been convicted of fomenting racial hatred:

During the trial, al-Masri, who has called the Sept. 11 attacks a Jewish plot and the invasion of Iraq a war on Islam, took the stand and denied any involvement in violence. He said he is only a spokesman for political causes.

But prosecutor David Perry told the jury of seven men and five women: “The prosecution case, in a sentence, is that the defendant ... was preaching murder and hatred in these talks.”

In speeches at the mosque and elsewhere, al-Masri called Jews “blasphemous, traitors and dirty” and said their behavior was “why Hitler was sent into the world,” Perry said.

Abu Hamza copped seven years. Abye bye, Abu!

UPDATE. Hook-handed Hamza’s hooker hijinks!

Posted by Tim B. on 02/07/2006 at 10:13 PM
  1. Bye bye Abu!  I hope you can toss a great salad.

    Posted by wronwright on 2006 02 07 at 10:27 PM • permalink

  2. I wonder if Captain Hook will still have a government-funded “groom of the stool” in the Big House? It’d be such a terrible shame if he suffered a horrible toilet accident…

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 02 07 at 10:28 PM • permalink

  3. Tim, your post headline is wrong, since the good Imam is shy a hand.  It should read:

    TIME ON HIS HANDS

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 02 07 at 10:40 PM • permalink

  4. Rats, PIMF!

    Try this:

    TIME ON HIS HAND

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 02 07 at 10:41 PM • permalink

  5. Time on his hooks?

    Posted by murph on 2006 02 07 at 10:44 PM • permalink

  6. IMAM PLAYING HOOKY FROM MOSQUE

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 02 07 at 10:46 PM • permalink

  7. Will we ever find out the sound of one hand clapping in a mosque?

    Posted by Pat Patterson on 2006 02 07 at 10:54 PM • permalink

  8. the good Imam is shy a hand.

    No he is short of two hands. He lost them in Afghanistan and had the hooks put on, then he got something in his eye which led to his other disability.

    Posted by Ross on 2006 02 07 at 10:57 PM • permalink

  9. Surely they’ll remove his hook in prison.  Or maybe they can put a large cork on the end.

    Posted by murph on 2006 02 07 at 10:59 PM • permalink

  10. Any idea what happened to his Hand anyone?? Was it for a past crime?

    Posted by jackx on 2006 02 07 at 11:01 PM • permalink

  11. No doubt Leunig will start drawing pictures about Tony Blair imprisoning cripples.

    Posted by murph on 2006 02 07 at 11:01 PM • permalink

  12. jackx

    My understanding is that he lost it in a land mine explosion whilst fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan.

    Posted by murph on 2006 02 07 at 11:02 PM • permalink

  13. Abu Hamza will be like a mafia boss in a US prison and send enforcers to do his bidding. No one will dare touch him. What will English prison officials do when Imam al-Masri (peace be be upon him) begins to proselytize in prison.

    Posted by 13times on 2006 02 07 at 11:12 PM • permalink

  14. He could be out in as little as two years when time served and good behaviour(ha!) is taken into account.  This is little more than a slap on the wrist - oops, sorry you don’t have any…

    Posted by anthony_r on 2006 02 07 at 11:13 PM • permalink

  15. Quotus motus:

    He was also found guilty of possessing “the 11-volume Encyclopaedia of Afghani Jihad”

    11 volumes? Quite a bit of studying.

    Top 5 Weekly Songs
    1. “Hooked on Jihad”
    2. “Living next door to Allah”
    3. “Hang on, Hooks are on their way”
    4. ” I’m all Hooked up”
    5. ” I want your Hook”

    Posted by ratio on 2006 02 07 at 11:14 PM • permalink

  16. #4 - JeffS - I don’t think he’s got any hands.  Lost ‘em both plus an eye in Afghanistan clearing landmines.  Yep, those landmines have got useful detonators in them…

    Posted by anthony_r on 2006 02 07 at 11:16 PM • permalink

  17. Yeah so he claims Murph, a bit like in Ireland a few years back every oul’ git would tell you how he had fought in the Easter Rising.

    My understanding is that the Arab mujahadeen in Afghanistan were regarded by the Afghans as bigger bloody nuisances than the Soviets. Given that he lost two hands and an eye I imagine it wasn’t a mine that injured him but something he was playing with at the time so I think the Afghans were on to something.

    Actually whilst the Afghans were delighted to take Saudi cash they were mortified that the Arabs thought they needed help to fight the Russkies. The Afghans, proud levellers of empires, heroic descendants of the men who wiped out the British army at Gandamak, laughed at the idea that a bunch of Arabs who hadn’t won a battle in a thousand years could possibly be of any use.

    It is my understanding that Osama’s chief role was to lead a detachment into the caves in the mountains where for two weeks they were strafed and shelled by the Russians, at the end of the fortnight half the original number slinked back to base never having actually fired a shot. It was on this performance that “Sheik” Osama built his fearsome reputation.

    Incidentally I noticed a banner hanging from the building site opposite the court where Abu was sent down. The builders had written “Sling Your Hook”, in the vein of “Sod of Swampy” I thought, Londoners ya gotta love ‘em.

    Posted by Harry Flashman on 2006 02 07 at 11:22 PM • permalink

  18. But can we publish mocking cartoons of him?

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 02 07 at 11:23 PM • permalink

  19. Surely they’ll remove his hook in prison.

    One word ... nerf.

    Posted by Achillea on 2006 02 07 at 11:26 PM • permalink

  20. Q/ No hands and one hook. How does he wipe his arse?
    A/ Carefully.

    Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2006 02 07 at 11:38 PM • permalink

  21. Actually, no.

    How does he wipe his arse? With a taxpayer funded nurse.

    Regarding his hook, he was fitted with special £5,000 replacement hooks (courtesy of the British taxpayer) because it was feared his original metal ones could be used as weapons.

    This, and more hooky arse-wiping goodness here.

    As Islam is the fastest growing religion in prisons, I do hope he won’t be giving any sermons to anyone being released in the next century…

    Posted by Dan Lewis on 2006 02 07 at 11:45 PM • permalink

  22. Just add his sermon time onto the length of sentence of anyone who listens…

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 02 07 at 11:54 PM • permalink

  23. #8: I think there’s a pretty good reason his nickname isn’t “Lucky Abu”.

    Posted by paco on 2006 02 07 at 11:57 PM • permalink

  24. #21 Dan- That’s classic! His arsewiper’s name is Harry, otherwise known as ‘Dirty Harry’!
    Lucky his name wasnt Sanchez ‘cos then they would’ve had to call him…err nevermind.

    Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2006 02 08 at 12:01 AM • permalink

  25. The hook’s now a crook.

    Posted by Habib on 2006 02 08 at 12:14 AM • permalink

  26. OK, no hands, so the title should be #5, as per murph!  8^D

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 02 08 at 12:14 AM • permalink

  27. I would hate to be nurse whose job is wiping his bum.

    Posted by Melanie on 2006 02 08 at 01:44 AM • permalink

  28. Oh, Dan beat me too it.

    Posted by Melanie on 2006 02 08 at 01:45 AM • permalink

  29. hopefully someone will lend him a hand to end his life

    Posted by larrikin on 2006 02 08 at 02:42 AM • permalink

  30. Or, as the guy said in “Zulu”... “Off you go, Hooky, you done your bit.”

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 02 08 at 03:02 AM • permalink

  31. hopefully at the first sign of trouble from him, they’ll sling his sorry, crippled arse into solitary confinement, and just hose out his cell a couple of times a week…..

    Posted by casanova on 2006 02 08 at 03:42 AM • permalink

  32. He could be out in as little as two years when time served and good behaviour(ha!) is taken into account.  This is little more than a slap on the wrist ...

    Fortunately, he seems to be facing an extradition charge to the U.S. after his British prison term is up.

    Posted by PW on 2006 02 08 at 08:29 AM • permalink

  33. Fortunately for whom?

    Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 02 08 at 05:53 PM • permalink

  34. My understanding is that he lost it in a land mine explosion whilst fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan.

    Nah! That’s just the storey he tells.  I heard he actually lost his hands catching fish with dynamite.  He was a bit slow throwing it into the waterhole after he lit the wick.

    Posted by Mikie Slats on 2006 02 09 at 02:00 AM • permalink

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