# Handle with care \[Abu Hamza al-Masri extradited\] **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 25, 2012, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/handle-with-care-abu-hamza-al-masri-extradited/635762 "2012-09-25T11:11:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![manila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@manila](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manila)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/handle-with-care-abu-hamza-al-masri-extradited/635762/1 "2012-09-25T11:11:51Z")
Or not… as your heart desires. But very soon the UK will finally be delivering an odious package of excrement in the persona of one Abu Hamza al-Masri. What a pile of hateful shit this malfunctioning person is. In the late 90’s I used to travel to Finsbury Park in London to see concerts ( Pulp were especially good) This character used to deliver hate speech in and outside Finsbury Mosque. I actually listened to the Fucker! If he had just left his venom spouted out on the road opposite the mosque he could have been dismissed as just another religious hater. But no his poison continued. Jailed in the UK, and wanted on charges of aiding terrorism by the US authorities. Finally going to be extradited after his appeals to the euro courts were dismissed. I myself have not been in the UK for over 12 years and really don’t keep up with the news or maintain much of an interest in brit politico. But am pleased this piece of scum is off across the pond to start a new life in a US Supermax. ( after a trial of course) Sling your hook Abu! > **[Abu Hamza al-Masri](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Hamza_al-Masri)** > > Mustafa Kamel Mustafa (Arabic: مصطفى كامل مصطفى; born 15 April 1958), also known as Abu Hamza al-Masri (/ˈɑːbuː ˈhɑːmzə ɑːl ˈmɑːsri/ (listen); أبو حمزة المصري, Abū Ḥamzah al-Maṣrī – literally, father of Hamza, the Egyptian), or simply Abu Hamza, is an Egyptian cleric who was the imam of Finsbury Park Mosque in London, England, where he preached Islamic fundamentalist views. > The UK tabloid press nicknamed him "Captain Hook" in allusion to the fictional pirate Captain Hook. > In 2004, Hamza was a... ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/handle-with-care-abu-hamza-al-masri-extradited/635762/2 "2012-09-25T11:59:04Z")
I’m not a big fan of the US’s insistence on getting all the undesirables in the world extradited to the US for trial; it strikes me as hamfisted bully-boy tactics. OTOH I’m not an Abu Hamza fan either by any means. Tell you what: Abu Hamza can be sent to the US on the condition that he gets made the host of Larry King’s old show and Piers Morgan goes into a supermax prison instead. Everyone wins! ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/handle-with-care-abu-hamza-al-masri-extradited/635762/3 "2012-09-25T15:49:18Z")
I’ve edited the title to give it a better description of what the topic is about. Try to avoid vague (or misleading) thread titles if you can. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/handle-with-care-abu-hamza-al-masri-extradited/635762/4 "2012-09-26T18:32:28Z")
Hamza is an evil scumbag, I hope that he gets whats coming to him. ---
**Author:** ![Simple\_Linctus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Simple\_Linctus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simple_Linctus)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/handle-with-care-abu-hamza-al-masri-extradited/635762/5 "2012-09-26T18:37:37Z")
Abu Hamza is still a human being and the conditions at a Supermax should not be applied to any human being under any circumstances. I also agree with Gyrate that these last gasps of the US as world police ™ will not be forgotten, nor should they be, in a few years time when it is less able to bully everyone else.