HARDtalk:
Sheik Abu Hamza al-Mazri
On
BBC News 24's HARDtalk tonight (Friday 7 February 2003), Tim Sebastian
interviews
Sheik Abu Hamza al-Mazri, Muslim Cleric.
Sheik
Abu Hamza al-Mazri, an extreme Muslim cleric, has been accused of
turning a London mosque into a place of hatred rather than one of
religion.
He
has been removed from his position as an agent of Finsbury Park
Mosque. The cleric's dismissal was announced on Tuesday by the Charities
Commission, which said its decision was based on Mr Hamza's consistently
inflammatory remarks.
He
had recently been barred from preaching at the North London Central
Mosque and he inflamed public opinion when he spoke out about the
Columbia space shuttle disaster.
Tim
Sebastian asks him how a man who applauded the September 11th terrorist
attacks, and declared that the Columbia space shuttle disaster was
a "divine act", can claim to represent Islam in Britain.
Notes
to Editors
HARDtalk
is broadcast on BBC News 24, Monday to Friday at 10.30pm, and is
repeated Tuesday to Saturday at 2.30am.
All the
BBC's digital services are now available on Freeview,
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BBC
THREE will become available when it goes on air on 9 February 2003.
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