Abu Hamza is in prison for plotting to establish an al-Qaeda training camp in Oregon. But when he worked as a door man and a bodyguard, he “had no interest in Islam.” His interest in Islam turned him into a preacher and plotter of mass murder. British and American authorities should ponder the implications of that. But they won’t.
“Hook handed terror preacher Abu Hamza was ‘strip club ladies man,'” by Jerry Lawton, Daily Star, August 27, 2018:
EVIL hook-handed terror preacher Abu Hamza used to be a gold-chain-wearing ladies’ man who worked as a strip club bouncer.
The cleric is serving a life-without-parole sentence in America for terrorism crimes.
Since 2015 he has been kept in solitary confinement in a special unit inside America’s most secure prison – ADX Florence in Colorado, which is known as Supermax.
But Hamza, 60, worked as a doorman and bodyguard for Soho clubland baron Jean Agius in the early 80s.
Hamza had recently arrived from Egypt, had no interest in Islam and was using his real name Mostafa Kamel Mostafa.
Agius said: “I knew this man as Mostafa when he was very young, strong and agile and worked as my personal bodyguard.
“He was a very educated, cheerful giant.’’
While working in Soho, Hamza earned a reputation as a ladies’ man.
“He wore jeans and T-shirts and usually had a gold chain around his neck,’’ a friend told the authors of a book about Hamza called The Suicide Factory.
“He had this huge chest, huge, broad shoulders and big biceps.
“He was cool and, yes, he was a womaniser.’’…