Galloway Converts to Islam

[Joon]

Galloway has an excellent radio show on TalkSport, tonight from 8 - 10 pm and again tomorrow night, discussing current affairs.

 

[HarrisonSlade]

Galloway has an excellent radio show on TalkSport, tonight from 8 - 10 pm and again tomorrow night, discussing current affairs.

And tonight's show is focusing on sexist trots who cause racial tensions in the areas they represent and then fuck off for three months on some game show ran by the very people he pretends to be against.

 

[scott_forester]

GG is personally anti-abortion, but politically is pro-choice iirrc.

What he belives one thing but says another?

 

[X-77]

while his constituents were left for three months railing about their community being left without a representative.

I think you'll find it was not even three weeks.

 

[X-77]

And what better way to secure your future security by cosying up to Rupert Murdoch and his ilk.

Galloway cosying up to Murdoch and his ilk:

Above all, how long are people in Britain going to tolerate the activities of Rupert Murdoch, a multi-billionaire who pays precious little tax in this country, who has overweening political influence and a tightening grip on the media, and who is nothing short of a cancer on public life?

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/george_galloway/2006/03/sheikhdown_and_last_train_for.html

 

[scott_forester]

Galloway cosying up to Murdoch and his ilk:
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/george_galloway/2006/03/sheikhdown_and_last_train_for.html

I think the point being that talkSPORT was owned by the Wireless Group which is owned in part by News International. Personally I’d love to George to co-host a programme the odious Mike Dickin – but lets face it - essentially taking money from talkSPORT excludes George from the morally outraged club.

 

[Blagsta]

During his debate with Salman Rushdie at the recent Edinburgh TV Festival, someone asked George Galloway if television should broadcast an adaptation of Rushdie's novel, "Satanic Verses." According to Rushdie, Galloway replied, "If you don't respect religion, you have to suffer the consequences."

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=460&row=0

 

[cathal marcs]

yep, a Stalinist anti-abortion catholic fundamentalist

Whats a Stalinst doing with the SWP

 

[JHE]

Whats a Stalinst doing with the SWP

Using them, of course.

 

[cathal marcs]

But in what ways is Gallahway a Stalinist. Ive not heard him talk of stagism etc

 

[Joon]

His radio programme is on right now. TalkSport. He is discussing racism, House of Lords and the Fake Sheikh.

 

[scott_forester]

His radio programme is on right now. TalkSport. He is discussing racism, House of Lords and the Fake Sheikh.

Has it got any better?

 

[Joon]

It can't get better - it's already fantabulous!!!

 

[Fullyplumped]

It can't get better - it's already fantabulous!!!

You quite like him, don't you!

 

[Fisher_Gate]

I think the point being that talkSPORT was owned by the Wireless Group which is owned in part by News International. Personally I’d love to George to co-host a programme the odious Mike Dickin – but lets face it - essentially taking money from talkSPORT excludes George from the morally outraged club.

I thought it was owned by Ulster TV?

 

[Joon]

Yes

You quite like him, don't you!

"Galloway's eyes are the sort that a writer of adult, romantic fiction would give to her hero: eyes of passion, eyes of regret." DK Renton

He is my hero.

 

[Combustible]

But in what ways is Gallahway a Stalinist. Ive not heard him talk of stagism etc

I am on the anti-imperialist left." The Stalinist left? "I wouldn't define it that way because of the pejoratives loaded around it; that would be making a rod for your own back. If you are asking did I support the Soviet Union, yes I did. Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, and I think the disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my life. If there was a Soviet Union today, we would not be having this conversation about plunging into a new war in the Middle East, and the US would not be rampaging around the globe."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,792765,00.html

 

[JoePolitix]

Doing a TV show will hardly get you locked up as a war criminal.

Unsuprisingly there was hardly the uproar in the rightwing press when the Lib Dem MP Julia Goldsworthy appeared on the shitty c4 "celeb" show "the games". I mean who the fuck watched that shite when there was real athletics on at the same time on bbc 2?

 

[Wilf]

"Galloway's eyes are the sort that a writer of adult, romantic fiction would give to her hero: eyes of passion, eyes of regret." DK Renton

He is my hero.

Nurse! Fetch the big gurney with the straps on

 

[Andy the Don]

I think it is universally accepted now, Ninjaboy, that Galloway was right in everything he said. That's not my definition of a twat.

What even the bit when he said that most Iraqi citizens supporter Saddam..

 

[HarrisonSlade]

I think you'll find it was not even three weeks.

I meant to say three weeks sorry. I thought it was. It was at least a fortnight, and there was some crucial issues being debated and voted on in London at the time.

 

[X-77]

I meant to say three weeks sorry. I thought it was. It was at least a fortnight, and there was some crucial issues being debated and voted on in London at the time.

what crucial votes did he miss?

 

[In Bloom]

"Galloway's eyes are the sort that a writer of adult, romantic fiction would give to her hero: eyes of passion, eyes of regret." DK Renton

He is my hero.

You almost had me until this one, very clever

 

[Wilf]

You almost had me until this one, very clever

Ern?

 

[In Bloom]

Ern?

Could well be

If it's not a parody of some sort then that's my faith in humanity buggered, anyway

 

[Joon]

Look!

Could well be

If it's not a parody of some sort then that's my faith in humanity buggered, anyway

Quite simply, I am an admirer of George Galloway. Yes, I am. I am not kidding! You KNOW he has many admirers - and I am one of them. He is a person who inspires very strong emotions in people. Love him or loathe him - I love him. And there is no point in anyone coming back with a list of reasons to hate him, I have heard them all before. We all have opinions about him - I have mine. No apologies!

 

[Dissident Junk]

During his debate with Salman Rushdie at the recent Edinburgh TV Festival, someone asked George Galloway if television should broadcast an adaptation of Rushdie's novel, "Satanic Verses." According to Rushdie, Galloway replied, "If you don't respect religion, you have to suffer the consequences."

This comment just says it all really. Bugger the truth, or what such a stance on Rushdie means for academic freedom in Muslim countries, it is what people believe in their ignorance (and you can use for political capital) that is important.

There was never a proper fatwa against Rushdie in the first place either - probably because shia sharia judicial process for blasphemy is a complicated procedure requiring concrete evidence (extremely awkward in the case of the 3 cranes verses, as it is a theological raw nerve interpreted in different ways by many clerics over the centuries). And, moreover, if there had been, such a ruling would only have applied to Shia Muslims at best.