I'm astonished not that people are willing to defend the poster Abu Hamza (nothing wrong with that of course), but that they are insisting on ripping single offences free from their context and then saying
Conversely, I'm astonished that people are willing to accuse the poster Abu Hamza when they haven't even gotten the basic facts straight.
his religious background. "Hey, Abu Hamza is the equivalent of Johnny Smith!" Sure, and my real name might be Davey Duke too, but we don't have to be purposefully naive when we look at these issues. In isolation, we can make everything he did look perfectly innocent, but when a user takes the screen name of a man (quoting WP) convicted of "racial hatred and incitement to murder", shares the same obsession
False. The poster abuhamza used the screen name Saladin1970. I don't understand how is email address is in any way relevant. Most people here didn't know there is a real Abu Hamza that incites hatred and most people wouldn't have cared about his email address unless someone had accused him for it.
with Harold Shipman's supposed Jewish background as the convicted Hamza, inserts text dumps from "Zionism The Real Enemy of the Jews" into articles and claims he's merely "quoting the Talmud", and calls respected editors Zionists in a way that's clearly intended as a slur,
Calling editors Zionists is no good. Btw, I believe the extract from "Zionism The Real Enemy of the Jews" was only inserted in one article, [[Alan Hart]].
well, you don't need a weatherman to know which way this wind is blowing. This clearly adds up to a pattern of behavior that is
It is easy to build a castle of air. Everyone can do that, but when you analyze each part of it you see that it is nothing more than a castle of air. It is false that abuhamza didn't do any useful edits, he did. It is false that his screen name was Abu Hamza, it was Saladin1970.
just never be permanently lifted. If you really want to stick up for this guy, try to get him to improve his behavior, don't try to rationalize it for him.
The user is indefinitely banned, there is no way for him to improve his behaviour anyway.