Mr Justice Hughes today told jurors how Abu Hamza al-Masri spoke "with great anger, directed at virtually every country and at a very large number of people." These are a few of his public and controversial pronouncements, which Inayat Bunglawala, spokesman for the Muslim Council of Great Britain, has called "vile rants"

The Asian tsunami: "Muslims in the tsunami had been sent a collective punishment."

Blood: "We like blood and are addicted to it. When they say they love Allah they must ask themselves how much kafir blood they have spilt for Allah."

The Church in Britain: "In the hearts and minds of people, preachers have become homosexual, they have become child hazard. Churches have become places of dancing, iniquity, business, black magic."

Columbia shuttle disaster in 2003: "A punishment from God."

Darwinism: "Darwin wanted to establish a link between human beings and monkeys. Why? Because he was so afraid to find his own grandfather as a Jew, the first monkey, the first ape. So he wanted to prove it to the people from the other way round. The source of man is monkey. So the source of monkey is a man, and he's a Jew."

Defeating nations: "Imagine you have only one small knife and you have a big animal in front of you, the size of the knife you can't slaughter him with this. You have to stab him here and there until he bleeds to death, until he dies."

Defeating nations #2: "You can't do it by nuclear weapon, you do it by the kitchen knife. You cannot do it by chemical weapons, you have to do it by mice poison."

Economics: "The main source of income in this country is actually what? ... Usury, prostitution, alcohol, taxation, plotting against Third World countries."

England: "A toilet...a person who comes to a toilet, he should be very keen to go out of it quickly because it smells and changes the human's nature and you can't really worship very good in a toilet."

England #2: "A vampire state"

Female converts: "When they accept Islam, they think it's a fashion, they become covered, become veiled and next day they have the bikini again."

The Holocaust: "Hitler was sent to torture and humiliate Jews."

The Kursk disaster: "Allah is trapping more than 100 Russians under the sea. Allah is trapping them with all their technology, they can't even save themselves - they are humiliated."

Licensing justices: "Killing an adulterer, even if he is a Muslim is okay. Killing a kafir who is fighting you is okay. Make sure that the person who gave him the licence for that wine shop doesn't exist anymore on the Earth. Finish him up."

Murder: "Killing a Kafir [non-believer] for any reason you can say it is okay - even if there is no reason."

Non-believers (kafir): "Germs and viruses."

Osama bin Laden: "A good guy."

September 11 attacks: "Many people will be happy, jumping up and down at this moment."

Suicide bombing: "The highest form of martyrdom... a tactic of war."

Suicide bombing #2: "People call it suicide to put people off. It is not called suicide, it is called shahid [martyrdom]."

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