"A celebration of Terror"
By Farrukh Dhondy

an obscene spectacle took place in North London on Wed. A thousand Musims gathered at the Finsbury Park mosque to 'celebrate' the bombing of the World Trade Center. The metropolitan police deployed a force 500 strong to protect the meeting, called 'a towering day in history', from disruption. Adozen or so menacing-looking men with kaffiyehs over their faces stood on the mosque's steps to prevent unfriendly journalists from entering.

the 'celebration' began promptly at 1 pm so that participants could applaud the action fo the WTC bombers at exactly 1:46pm london time the exact hour a year earlier when the first plane hit its target in ny.

the gettogether wasnt just muslim solidarity either. charing the meeting was Abu Hamza, and egyptian-born engineer turnted muslim mullah, who presides ove the notorious finsbury park mosque.

Finsbury park first became known earlier this year when it came out that several of the detainees at Guantanamo Bay who were captured fighting for the taliban and al qaeda had received their theological training there.

Hamza also reportedly recruited to the jihad richard reid the wouldbe shoebomber who failed to blow up an american airlines flight from paris to miami on dece 22, 2001. and the good imam is implicated in the training of zacarias moussaoui under arrest on suspicion of conspiring iwth the 19 murderers of sept. 11.

the fbi has applied for hamza's extradition from britain for questioning in the us (the mullah has been a british subject since 1985) but he is sitll at large in london, free not only to address his congregation but to celebrate the events of 9-11. he told the press that saudi muslims financed the celebration in the hope that from it will arise an organization that represents 'the real views of muslims in britain.'