Hook-handed cleric Abu Hamza heaps praise on ‘noble’ Donald Trump in extraordinary 40-page letter from his supermax jail cell
- Former imam of Finsbury Park Mosque heaps praise upon incumbent President
- Hamza suggests he bypass ‘fake/corrupt’ media and sets up a television channel
- He also reveals that he shares the President’s dislike of Robert Mueller and describes his probe as a ‘witch hunt’
Abu Hamza (pictured) has written a letter to US President Donald Trump endorsing him
Abu Hamza, the hook handed Islamic extremist, has endorsed Donald Trump in a gushing letter of support sent from his cell inside one of the US’s ‘supermax’ prisons.
In the bizarre correspondence, the former imam of Finsbury Park Mosque in London heaps praise upon the incumbent President in an apparent attempt to curry his favour.
Over 40 pages the hate preacher, 60, refers to Trump as ‘POTUS-T’ and offers advice as to how he should deal with his political rivals, reports the Times.
Hamza, full name Mostafa Kamel Mostafa, which means ‘Egyptian father’ in Arabic, is a double amputee.
He is also blind in one eye and suffers from diabetes, psoriasis and a condition that means he sweats excessively and has to shower twice a day.
Given his day-to-day consists of total isolation, the cleric shows a surprising knowledge of current affairs.
With a knowing nod to the President’s dislike of the mainstream media, Hamza suggests that he bypasses traditional ‘fake/corrupt’ media and sets up a White House television channel.
He also reveals that he shares the President’s dislike of Robert Mueller – the former FBI chief investigating Trump’s alleged connection to Russia and the nation’s interference in American election.
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Radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza offers advice as to how he should deal with his political rivals
Hamza was arrested in 2004. He is pictured leading lunchtime prayers outside his old mosque in Finsbury Park, north London
Pictured: An view of ADX Florence ‘Supermax’ jail in Colorado, USA where Abu Hamza is held
He describes the probe as a ‘witch hunt’ and urges the President carry on his ‘noble mission’.
In the missive, written in the cleric’s recognisably messy scrawl, he refers to himself as both Mostafa Kamel Mostafa, his real name, and Sheikh Abu Hamza al-Masri, his alias.
He also includes a peculiar biography detailing his time working in strip club as a bouncer during the 80s before he became a terrorist.
ADX Florence, where Hamza is imprisoned, holds 410 male inmates, who are often deemed too dangerous or too much of a national security risk to be at one of the country’s high-security jails.
Its 410 inmates are delivered in buses, armoured cars and even Black Hawk helicopters to the sprawling 37-acre facility where squat brick buildings are surrounded by a dozen tall gun towers and heavily armed patrols circulate continually.
The facility is designed to cut its occupants off from the outside world, not just from fellow humans but from even a glimpse of the sky.
Visitors have commented on its pervasive and eerie quiet.
Many of the inmates – including Hamza – spend 23 hours a day alone in 7ft x 12ft concrete cells.
Notable inmates include Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber and Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Abu Hamza put forward his case for appeal at a hearing in May. Judges are currently considering their verdict.
Abu Hamza – The Egyptian engineer who became a preacher of hate on London’s streets
Abu Hamza (right) – The Egyptian engineer who became a preacher of hate on London’s streets
Abu Hamza al-Masri was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1958 as Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, the son of a naval officer and a primary school headmistress.
After initially studying civil engineering he entered the UK in 1979 on a student visa.
He was granted UK citizenship when he met and married his first wife, a British Muslim convert, in 1980. Hamza has previously said she was the one who got him interested in Islam and he converted after taking time off from his job as a nightclub bouncer in London’s Soho.
As he found his new religion and his job incompatible, he instead resumed his civil engineering studies at Brunel University and Brighton Polytechnic, gaining a degree.
He then divorced his first wife, the mother of his oldest son, Muhammed Kamel, who at the age of 17 was convicted of being part of a bomb plot in Yemen and imprisoned for three years in 1999.
He met and married his second wife in 1984 in a Muslim ceremony in London and had a further seven childen.
Heavily influenced by the Iranian revolution, he took an interest in Islam and politics, in particularly the occupation of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union.
After meeting the founder of Afghan Mujahideen in 1987, he moved to Egypt and then to Afghanistan, and it was in the following years that he lost his hands and one eye.
Over the years, Hamza has given several different reasons for the loss of his hands and eye. These include a road project in Pakistan, an explosion during a de-mining project in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, fighting the jihad as a Pakistani Mujahideen, and working with Pakistani military in Lahore when an explosives experiment went wrong.
After spending time in Afghanistan and Bosnia in the early 90s, he returned to Britain and adopted a new name – Sheikh Abu Hamza al-Masri.
It was in London that Hamza began his rise to public notoriety as the Finsbury Park mosque imam, where he arrived in 1997.
One year later, in 1998, he helped organise hostage-taking of 16 mostly British tourists in Yemen. Three Britons and an Australian killed in rescue mission.
In 2000, he set up a terrorist training camp in Bly, Oregon, sending volunteers and money to Afghanistan to support al Qaeda and the Taliban.
He firmly placed himself on the national radar in 2001 after speaking out in support of Osama bin Laden following the September 11 attacks.
His inflammatory speeches led to the Charity Commission suspending him from his position at Finsbury Park Mosque the following year.
In 2003, legal moves begin to get Hamza deported to Yemen, a move which he appealed.
In 2004 Hamza was arrested on a US extradition warrant over charges of conspiring to take hostages in Yemen, funding terrorism, and organising a terrorist training camp in Oregon. Charged with 15 offences under the Terrorism Act, temporarily staying US extradition.
In 2006, Hamza was jailed for seven years at the Old Bailey after being found guilty of 11 of 15 charges, but the courts still battle to have him extradited.
He was finally extradited in October 2012, and appeared in a US court, indicted under the name Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, where he pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges.
In May 2014, Hamza was convicted of all 11 charges on terrorism offences at Manhattan’s Federal Court.
In January 2015 he was sentenced to life imprisonment without any possibility of parole.
Since October 2015 he has been locked up at ‘Supermax’ correctional facility ADX Florence, Colorado.
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