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.
--
mvh Björn