What is is with George Galloway?

GG was elected the youngest Chairman of the Scottish Labour Party in 1981.

-- N_RQ (bl0cke...), July 11th, 2005. (later)

Hah, my immediate reaction was that Momus was comparing *himself* to Marx and Engels.

English people and Pakistanis dont blow themselves up because they are so distraught about Palestine. That's crap. Go into a politicised Mosque, read the pamphlets, watch Arabic Television. The incitement to hatred is intense. That's why Pakistanis and British people go out to kill Infidels, and it has fuck all to do with Iraq or Palestine.

Iraq, Palestine, Saudi Arabia's complicity, these are all excuses used by power-mad clerics who get their kicks from sending young men and women to their death killing People of the Book (both Books).
Used as excuses and strong rhetoric tools, aided by the likes of Ken Livingston and George Galloway who both exaggerate and romanticise the jihad in Palestine.

welcome to the jungle!

Whether you personally like the link or not—and it's a disturbing one for the politically apathetic, because it implicates us all in decisions our government has made over the years, and makes us all footsoldiers in distant wars—it is something that comes up time and again in reports of the formative thinking in the minds of the people who commit these extreme acts.

The New York Times yesterday published an article entitled Anger Burns On Fringe of Britain's Muslims. It begins:

"At Beeston's Cross Flats Park, in the center of this now embattled town, Sanjay Dutt and his friends grappled Friday with why their friend Kakey, better known to the world as Shehzad Tanweer, had decided to become a suicide bomber.

"He was sick of it all, all the injustice and the way the world is going about it," Mr. Dutt, 22, said. "Why, for example, don't they ever take a moment of silence for all the Iraqi kids who die?"

"It's a double standard, that's why," answered a friend, who called himself Shahroukh, also 22, wearing a baseball cap and basketball jersey, sitting nearby. "I don't approve of what he did, but I understand it. You get driven to something like this, it doesn't just happen."

Later:

That anger stems not merely from unhappiness with the situation of Muslims in Britain, but also solidarity with what they see as the aggressive and unjust treatment of Muslims abroad, and not least from Britain's part in the war in Iraq."

Also an Al'Q supporting Sunni kid in the UK is not going to cry for Shia dead in Iraq, but will for the dead of Fallujah.

if the full-on civil war comes (which dear god i hope it does not), it will make the lebanese civil war look as simple and bloodless as a chess match

"Britain's involvement in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan contributed to the terrorist attacks in London, a respected independent thinktank on foreign affairs, the Chatham House organisation, says today."

The US is the world's prime hegemon, a military-political-ideological prime mover. For this reason, whoever is killing whoever else, it won't be too much of a leap to pin the blame on the US if the US is involved in any way, or has an interest in the outcome of a dispute. The Guardian article says "Britain's ability to carry out counter-terrorism measures has also been hampered because the US is always in the driving seat in deciding policy." Whoever is involved, and isn't the US, is necessarily out of control.

And the battle of the Boyne has contributed to IRA attacks. Yes the Iraq war has a bearing on what these people did but it is not the route cause, it is not what started them on the road to terrorism and it's naive to think otherwise.

capital stuff, george. the iraqis are doing for "all the people of the world" now.

When at Thy call my weary feet I turn
The gates of paradise are opened wide
At Goodison I know a man can learn
Rapture more rich than Anfield can provide.

In Coulter's skill and Geldard's subtle speed
I see displayed in all its matchless bounty
The power of which the heavens decreed
The fall of Sunderland and Derby County.

The hands of Sagar, Dixie's priceless head
Made smooth the path to Wembley till that day
When Bolton came. Now hopes are fled
And all is sunk in bottomless dismay.

And so I watch with heart and temper* cool
God's lesser breed of men at Liverpool.

(Or temple, as some have it.)

Now on with regular programming.

Er....

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2010/jul/08/george-galloway-dusty-springfield

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-19323783

Galloway - Assange is only guilty of "bad sexual etiquette".

Types of bad sexual etiquette
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bad sexual etiquette can be categorized in different ways: for example, by reference to the situation in which it occurs, by the identity or characteristics of the victim, and/or by the identity or characteristics of the perpetrator. These categories are referred to as types of bad sexual etiquette.

Contents

1 Groth typology
2 Date bad sexual etiquette
3 Gang bad sexual etiquette
4 Spousal bad sexual etiquette
5 bad sexual etiquette of children
6 Statutory bad sexual etiquette
7 Prison bad sexual etiquette
8 War bad sexual etiquette
9 bad sexual etiquette by deception
10 Corrective bad sexual etiquette
11 See also
12 References

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/feb/21/george-galloway-debate-israeli-oxford

anti-semitic Stalinist does something anti-semitic, film at 11

that makes it ok then

glad thats settled

nah, i'm just saying Galloway is a reprehensible human being, what else is there to add?

doesnt stop us all moaning about the daily mail

I suppose the american ilxors wont see it in here but maybe its best theyre unaware of george

George Galloway ‏@georgegalloway
@thomasmessenger an Israeli citizen could not by definition be my constituent.

o_0

i think he means he doesn't understand how electoral law works there, as well as being an anti-semite obviously