About time too

The Charity Commission have finally succeeded in ousting Sheikh Abu Hamza from the Finsbury Park mosque in London. Whatever you opinions on freedom of speech, this guy has been shouting "fire" in a crowded theatre for months, if not years. For instance, he had this to say about the Columbia shuttle disaster:

He said the crew had been punished with death by Allah because there was an Israeli - Ilan Ramon, an Indian-born Hindu - Kalpana Chawla, and Americans on board.

Sometimes I wonder why our government has tolerated this man for so long. Maybe they were afraid of inflaming the moslem community in Britain, and waited until just about every mainstream moslem in Britain has disowned him. For example:

Dr Ghayasuddin Siddiqui, leader of the Muslim Parliament, dismissed Mr Hamza's pronouncement as "lunatic".

Dr Siddiqui told BBC News Online all British Muslims would be feeling sympathy for the dead astronauts, who had given their lives in the pursuit of sciences.

Of course, all Hamza achieves is to encourage an anti moslem backlask. It's long overdue to deport this nutjob (who's not a UK citizen). That's assuming we can find a single country in the world that would accept him.