I am close to the Muslim community in Britain 2 million strong. And there is undoubtedly a huge radicalization going on amongst British Muslims including in my own area. We try to be the democratic antidote to those siren voices in the Muslim community preaching isolationism, separatism, extremism and violence.
Galloway, Dubai Eye radio program, August, 20, 2006.
The invasion of Lebanon by Israel, for that’s what it is, is a monstrous injustice.
I side with the resistance to that injustice. Hizbollah is leading that resistance. I do not hesitate to say, and Blair and his law officers may take note, that I glorify that resistance.
I glorify the Hizbollah national resistance movement, and I glorify the leader of Hizbollah, Sheikh Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
George Galloway, Socialist Worker Online, July 29, 2005.
They can control the skies, but only if they don’t come within range of an RPG, but they can’t control one single street in any part of occupied Iraq. Not one street. Not one street anywhere. These poor Iraqis - ragged people, with their sandals, with their Kalashnikovs, with the lightest and most basic of weapons - are writing the names of their cities and towns in the stars, with 145 military operations every day, which has made the country ungovernable by the people who occupy it.
George Galloway, Al-Jazeera TV, July 31, 2005
George Galloway
I hate to say this, but these statements by Galloway are more like “dog bites man.” They’re nothing new. This is just Galloway being Galloway.
I just wish the media would ignore him. He’s a clown who thrives on media attention, but he says nothing particularly new, enlightening or worthwhile. We don’t have to jump every time he gives yet another overblown and smarmy speech that’s pro-Hamas or pro-”Iraqi insurgents” or whatever.
Joanne, my point was that Galloway was saying he was trying to be:
When he is anything but, as the two quotes that follow illustrate.
As for the media ignoring him. Well, I have a post coming on that one soon. I just need to find some time…