Hate Monger Going to Prison

I dislike crimes against hate speech, but this sentence strikes me as fair. If there's a tangible connection between one's words that encourage murder and the murder itself, the punishment is hitting at the action, not just the words. It's a fuzzy line, but it's necessary to draw it the best we can:

British police said Wednesday they had no evidence that the July 7 London suicide bombers attended a mosque headed by a preacher sentenced to seven years in prison for inciting followers to kill non-Muslims.

The Times and Daily Mail newspapers reported Wednesday that Mohammad Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer – two of the four men who blew themselves up on three subway trains and a bus – had attended north London's Finsbury Park mosque.

Abu Hamza al-Masri, the mosque's chief imam between 1997 and 2003, was sentenced to seven years in prison Tuesday for promoting the slaying of non-Muslims as a "religious duty."

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