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Hamza guilty of inciting murder
Abu Hamza has been found guilty on 11 of the 15 charges he faced
Controversial Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri has been found guilty of race hate charges and using his sermons to incite murder by an Old Bailey jury.
Abu Hamza, who preached at Finsbury Park mosque, London, was found guilty of 11 of the 15 charges he faced.
The cleric was also found guilty of having audio and video recordings intended to encourage racial hatred.
In addition, the 47 year old was also found guilty of possessing a document to be used for terror purposes.
The Shepherd's Bush-based preacher, who was arrested in May 2004, was said to have given inflammatory sermons that used unequivocal language.
The jury heard that he did not aim his vitriolic rhetoric only against Jews, unbelievers and the democratic West.
In Abu Hamza's numerous lectures and sermons, targets included homosexual vicars, the tourist industry, the royal family and women in bikinis.
His defence had been that he was encouraging Muslims to stand up for themselves.
8236 said:It seems that no-one knows how he lost his hands and one of his eyes (apparently it happened while he was in Afghanistan in the '90s). He himself is silent on the subject.
Anyone care to hazard a guess?
