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FM: Okay, the parts I find particularly objectionable (and remember that the MEMRI article contains only the objectionable parts of Galloway's speech, though I'm sure there's more) would probably be:
Galloway: The idea that Muslims have some kind of sickness in their bodies, which must be cured, which is the idea behind Bush
Muslim's in Afghanistan and Iraq have been able to practice their faith with the same freedom after the wars as they have before the wars. Coalition forces aren't tearing down Mosques or sending missionaries to convert Muslims, and they can't and won't ever do this. In Iraq the minority Sunnis no longer control the majority Shiites, who, don't forget, are legitimate targets for insurgents inspired by the Koran interpretations of Mohammed ibn abd al-Wahhab et al.
The whole second paragraph
This paragraph and much of the next reads as a call for jihad. Galloway starts by saying that two of the Arab world's 'daughters' are being 'raped' by foreigners, that the Arab governments -kept weak and divided by those same foreign powers- are doing nothing, then juxtaposes this with a glowing review of the Iraqi resistance (those brave and noble freedom fighters who videotape beheadings and blow themselves up in crowds of children sullying themselves by accepting sweets from the Infidel). These passages make it look a lot like Galloway supports the terrorists in Iraq and elsewhere and their aims, though without seeing the full speech it is difficult to know for sure.
... to defend their country, to defend their honor, to defend their families, their religion, their way of life...
See my first point. There is simply no evidence to support the charge that the American occupation is attempting to change or subvert the Iraqi (or Arab) way of life. The only threat to Iraqi families comes from reprisals against the insurgency, which would end, like the whole occupation would end, if dissafected Iraqis adopted peaceful means for change instead of pointless violence.
And they are winning the war. America is losing the war in Iraq, and even the Americans now admit it
IMHO, America is going to withdraw from Iraq when the adminstration feels like it, not before. Leaving the poorly equipped and undermanned Iraqi police to deal with the insurgency would be a moral nightmare. Even people (like myself) who opposed the war should see that the right thing for America to do is to clean up the mess they made. They have no reason to leave until they do, therefore the struggle the insurgents are engaged in is pointless.
We believe in the Prophets, peace be upon them.
Who is 'we' George? Galloway is a Roman Catholic and though he may not be devout (he is pro-choice for example) he still believes in the Christian God, and his son Jesus (who admittedly is a minor prophet in Islam). He is not Muslim. If he believed that the Koran is the word of Allah, as given to the Prophet Mohammad by the angel Gabriel, then he would have converted.
Most of the children, most of the schools, most of the buses, were bombed by the United States... Most of the children who died in Iraq were killed by George Bush, not by Zarqawi
That's because they have a multi-trillion dollar defense budget and an army that uses smart-bombs, ariel drones, robotic 'SWORDS' soldiers and, soon, microwave crowd-control weapons. If Zarqawi had that sort of weaponry and budget then there wouldn't be a coalition member, Shiite, Christian, Kurd or Sufi left alive in Iraq, and the same would go for everywhere else shortly after. They haven't killed as many Iraqi civilians as the Americans because they can't, not becasue wouldn't if given the means to. If it was Coalition policy to kill as many Iraqis as possible they could use their own WMDs on the country, and it'd be a smoking crater in half an hour. Galloway's lapse in logic paints Zarqawi, a murderer and terrorist following a heretical interpretation of the Koran, as being morally superior to a country that, for all the evil it has committed over the years, deposed a dictator and allowed a nation of twenty-six million to elect its own government. |
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