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Galloway: MoToons "worse than the 11 September attacks in the US and the 7/7 incidents"
2006-02-28
George Galloway has given a nice interview to El Khabar newspaper in Algeria. There is an English language extract from it here, but BBC Monitoring has produced a full translation of the article, which I've reproduced below. If you can't be bothered to read all of it, here are the choice passages.

The MoToons:

Halimi: Mr Galloway! Let us deal with the core of the issue immediately. What is your personal position and that of your party towards the events and the demonstrations which have been taking place in the Muslim world against the publication of cartoons depicting the prophet?
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Galloway: Personally, I condemn these barbaric and evil acts. Today, the objective of the Western states is to control the oil of the Muslims whatever the price. In fact, the cartoons published in Denmark did not surprise me because the Western states have been waging fierce attacks against Islam for years. These began by humiliation, insults and then occupation. Today they reached the point of ridiculing the prophet. This incident is worse than the 11 September attacks in the US and the 7/7 incidents in London. Therefore, today it is the right of Muslims to express their anger and to defend their right and faith.

The future of RESPECT:

Halimi: Is it possible to tell us how the Respect party will perform in the next elections?

Galloway: [smiles and says in Arabic] Praise be to God. [Then in English] Our party will be very strong in these elections. The proof is the fact that I am an MP. In the near future, Respect will become one of the strongest political parties in Britain.

On his personal faith:

Halimi: Many people are wondering where you derive this strength with which you speak and defy the powerful. Is there a secret power behind you?

Galloway: [in Arabic] This strength comes from God.

Halimi: You constantly use nice Arabic words, in addition to your relations with Arabs and Muslims. Does that mean that you have converted to Islam but you cannot admit that publicly?

Galloway: [shaking his head] This issue is between me and God. This answer is directed at you, the Algerian journalist, and at everyone who asks me this question.

There is loads more larf-a-minute stuff in this vein from the Hero of 1.2 Billion Muslims in the full post.
Posted by:tipper

#16  He is right from an Arab point of view the Sept 11 attacks and 7/7 incident could be written off by the west as a few crazy bastards. The MoToons however showed that most of Islamic society is ill, and thus the exposure was far worse.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2006-02-28 20:05  

#15  oooh! squeal of delight Absolute Squeal!
Posted by: Hupomoger Clans9827   2006-02-28 19:57  

#14  Let's see how that goes?

HC, I like the way you think. One slight difference though ... I'd have him tattooed with the cartoons so they can gently skin remove them from his unanesthetized body.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-02-28 19:38  

#13  He needs to be left alone in a room full of 9-11 survivors and victim families for a few hours of parking lot therapy

Zenster, maybe he needs to be dropped off on the outskirts of Quetta. Drunk and singing at the top of his lungs. Nothing but 2 bottles of whiskey, a copy of Playboy and framed laminated enlargments of "the cartoons" - all 15 of 'em. Grab the women for slobbery kisses, cause he's, like ya know, one with them.

Wearing nothing but the catsuit.

Let's see how that goes?
Posted by: Hupomoger Clans9827   2006-02-28 19:28  

#12  Look at these photos of Galloway and then tell me you can take anything he says seriously ever again.
Posted by: Mike   2006-02-28 14:06  

#11  Can we please, oh pretty please, have the infamous pic of him in the red leotard, next to the cross-dresser in a blue leotard? It would just add so much to our appreciation of this story, and of Mr. Galloways' many notable qualities, none of which are notable in a good way.
Posted by: Sgt. Mom   2006-02-28 13:52  

#10  Mr Galloway - Look at these photos then repeat that statement with a straight face!
Posted by: 3dc   2006-02-28 13:47  

#9  "Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die."
- Mel Brooks
Posted by: BH   2006-02-28 13:00  

#8  Halimi: Mr. Galloway, do you have any plans to do your self-abasing cat imitation from Big Brother in public again?

Galloway: Meow . . . meow . . . meow-meow.
Posted by: Mike   2006-02-28 12:26  

#7  The next Islamist atrocity needs to be laid squarely at Galloway's feet. This maggot has gone beyond appeaser to flat-out facilitator. He needs to be left alone in a room full of 9-11 survivors and victim families for a few hours of parking lot therapy. His oxygen consumption permit has expired.
Posted by: Zenster   2006-02-28 11:44  

#6  They obviously hate being laughed at.

Har-de-har-har...
Posted by: mojo   2006-02-28 11:42  

#5  "the publication of cartoons depicting the prophet . . . = 'barbaric and evil acts' "

Equating CARTOONS and SATIRE with barbaric and evil acts is completely insane.

"This incident is worse than the 11 September attacks in the US and the 7/7 incidents in London . . . "

So, publishing cartoons is worse than killing thousands. This is the Moslem mindset and it is also the biggest PR campaign I've ever witnessed.

Note: "the Western states have been waging fierce attacks against Islam for years." (huh? what?) "These began by humiliation" (how's that?) "insults" (what kind?) "and then occupation" (whatever)" and "it is the right of Muslims to express their anger and to defend their right and faith."

Seems to me that these guys want to gain power to control the oil money themselves, so they can be the fat cats. They know that hundreds of thousands of Moslem men (and women) have NOTHING TO DO in their ratty-ass countries, so they are attempting to mobilize the masses, put themselves in power, and get in on the good life, Arab-style.

Really, they shouldn't be underestimated, since they are in following Hitler's footsteps: tell lies and tell them long enough and enough people will believe you to get the job done. In this case, I think the "job" is the subjugation of the world to Islam, or at least subjugate the world to the masses who will do it for them, so they can be about the business of garnering funding for themselves. And I do believe they are dead serious about it.


Hope everyone is shopping Danish products.
Posted by: ex-lib   2006-02-28 11:12  

#4  Him being such a weasely little arab *ss-kisser would be actually just a little bit more "forgiveable" if he's doing it because he's part of the Master Religion(tm), rather than doing it because he's been bought.

Of course, one reason doesn't necessary excludes the others, in fact I'm sure he's both a Moderate Muslim (hasn't he married a Yasser relative? If so, he's obligatory a muslim, an unbeliever HAS to convert in such a situation) and a greedy scumbag.

Btw the 9/11-cartoons analogy was also made by Javier "Eurabia" Solana too.
Posted by: anonymous5089   2006-02-28 11:04  

#3  Relatives of 911 victims should sue him for damages.

Posted by: 3dc   2006-02-28 11:02  

#2  "reverted"?
No. Once a traitor, always a traitor.
Posted by: ed   2006-02-28 10:52  

#1  So Galloway's out-and-out "reverted", then?
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2006-02-28 10:49  

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