Some may doubt the constitutional propriety of the Queen's reported intervention in the Hamza case, but it is difficult to fault her question: why was the "preacher of hate" allowed to run free for so long? Her Majesty's questioning was shared by Muslims who had once used the Finsbury Park mosque, and felt terrorised when Hamza and his henchmen seized control of it, turning it into a place of hate.

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