They use the power of the media because they know the media will publish their tripe, and, in turn, generates the hatred they wish for from us. Take away their power of using the media and they become nothing.
we have the internet, which is far more accessible and can be viewed by billions, so even if he gets his face on the front page of the Times, it won't matter because he can sit in a room and record a youtube video - you can't stop him or more atrocities, get rid of him and another takes his place.
I still don't understand the reason he gets benefits, why? because quite honestly cut off his money, cut off the head of the hydra.
But with the internet we have a choice whether to click onto such tripe or ignore it completely. And, sadly, I agree. Another would take his place, if he were ever removed for good, and the promulgation of terrorism will continue: without a history lesson, throughout history man cannot go a day without some war or act of terrorism springing up somewhere in the world - sadly for us this time, it is on our doorstep and is why we react so personally.
Philoctetes, //This chappy ….can NOT back up his inflammatory remarks from the Koran. His "authority" comes from additional texts,//
Unfortunately he can – and the additional texts you talk about are revered almost as much as the Koran is revered. They, like the Koran, are considered to be infallible and beyond criticism.
Yes, giving this moron front page newspaper space is definitely keeping him in the limelight. However, he surely cannot continue to spout stuff like this without the authorities 'jumping' on him.