Bradford Muslims sent shockwaves through the British political establishment after they voted for a white male Catholic (George Galloway) ahead of a Muslim (Imran Hussain) and still got accused of being sectarian.
When you examine the viceral hatred and hostility from our mainstream pro Israeli corporate media towards Galloway only then can you begin to establish the fear and loathing those pro war Neo Con Hawks have towards anyone who challenges their twisted New World Order.
What do George Galloway and Ken Livingstone have in Common a sympathy towards the grievances that we Muslims have in terms of foreign wars and the systematic destruction of our civil liberties. In addition, they have a loathing for the occupation of Palestine and a contempt for the Israel Lobby that has hijacked all main established political parties in this country.
Bradford Muslims have shown how if you have the right policies with the right candidate you can activate the Muslim base to come out in huge numbers. However, my focus is not so much on Political Parties or the Media, my emphasis is ensuring the Muslim community acknowledge and appreciate how our vote is the ultimate weapon of mass destruction that sends fear into the hearts of all those Israelites who have been having kittens since Galloway's election.
Bradford is the template which perfectly exemplifies how non sectarian we Muslims are by voting for a Non Muslim ahead of a Muslim thus illustrating the need for Politicians to address our concerns or face political oblivion.
While Jews in London have sent warnings to Ken Livingstone to change his pro Muslim views it is Bradford Muslims and inshallah we London Muslims that will fire the ultimate warning and send the Israelites into a tailspin. Bradford will be our catalyst and also a warning to you useless buffoons in the Mosques that have treated your own community with arrogance and contempt expecting us to follow your diktats.
The Muslim Youth have spoken, prove to us you will reflect and represent our interests and causes and we will reward you with the authority or is it power you politicians so desire. Increasingly gone are the days when we simply act like sheep and Labour politicians in "safe seats" weigh our votes. Immigration and visas are no longer the line in the sand issue for us as it was for the elder generation.
Demography and time is on our side along with technology as we understand social media, Twitter, and Text messaging which is the future of political campaigning. As our cohesiveness, unity and crucially political literacy improves we will confront our enemies with a weapon that our brothers and sisters are dying for in the Middle East, Democracy and the freedom to vote.
**Update** Gilligan quoting me & manages to get a fantastic headline. Annoyed, wish I had thought of it.
So, LM thinks it's non-sectarian to vote for a candidate whose election material EXPLICITLY targeted the Muslim vote by such subtle means as bringing attention to the fact that he doesn't drink alcohol and mentioned bizarrely that "Allah knows who is and who is not a Muslim".
ReplyDeleteHow, in the name of all that is holy, can you possibly claim that this was not sectarian?
Here is a man who in his victory tweet this morning couldn't even remember the name of the borough he had just been elected to represent:
"Welcome to the 6000 new followers. I will try to live up to your expectations. Shattered but happy after the Blackburn triumph."
Give me a break.
Spinoza is an idiot. Targeted voting is done everywhere, so why the stink about trying to get votes from Muslims? Atleast Galloway is genuine and has a solid track record, unlike the majority of white politicians.. Sectarianism is what Islamophobes promote via divide and conquer like Sarkozy and company. Galloway has balls, the most fearless politician in the western world. Evolved whites voted for him, the knuckle draggers didn't.
ReplyDeleteI agree entirely Mr. Black (not about my being an idiot - we'll have to agree to differ on that one) but on politicians targeting certain sections of the electorate and Galloway targeting Muslims. It just seems strange that LM appears unwilling to accept that's what Galloway did and that thus his victory can be seen as "sectarian".
ReplyDeleteThe words that Spinoza quotes are not from Galloway's election material. They are from a crudely photocopied leaflet that Harry's Place got hold of and posted on their website.
ReplyDeleteEven Andrew Gilligan felt obliged to point out: "The leaflet contains no official logo of Mr Galloway's Respect party, or the names of an agent or printer, as required by electoral law; Mr Galloway denies that it came from him."
Agreed - but are you suggesting that he therefore had nothing to do with it? Gilligan's piece suggests Galloway or his supporters were breaking electoral law.
ReplyDeleteI think it's highly unlikely that Galloway had anything to do with distributing the leaflet. Why would he risk breaking electoral law by putting out campaign literature without an imprint? Some of his supporters may have done it off their own bat, but we don't know.
ReplyDeleteIn any case your accusation, following Harry's Place, was that Galloway was "a candidate whose election material EXPLICITLY targeted the Muslim vote by such subtle means as bringing attention to the fact that he doesn't drink alcohol and mentioned bizarrely that 'Allah knows who is and who is not a Muslim'".
The point is it wasn't Galloway's election material. The accusation is false.
Galloway didn't need to put his name on that leaflet, he actually says those words in a speech in front of a camera, very happily.
ReplyDelete“Sue me if I’m lying, everybody here knows that he’s never out of the pub....if you send him to parliament he’ll spend the next thirty years not at the bar, but in the bar. Why would that be in the interest of the Muslims?"
“And on the question of Islam, God knows whos a Muslim and also who is not, and a man who is never out of the pub shouldn’t be going around telling people you should vote for him because he’s a Muslim”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZjvSwqg8-I&list=UUp86xex3%D74TL1G_RLfAKOQw&index=7&feature=plcp
Will George Galloway and Salma Yacoob endorse Ken Livingstone? That is the question!
ReplyDeleteSo Galloway standing in front of a crowd of several hundred locals and clearly saying "ALLAH KNOWS WHO IS AND WHO ISN'T A MUSLIM" is not appealing to the Muslim vote, then?
ReplyDeleteGo here to see a video of Galloway doing just that.
https://shirazsocialist.wordpress.com/2012/04/01/just-when-you-thought-it-was-safe-to-get-back-in-the-water/
Come on, Bob.
THE ACCUSATION STANDS.
Galloway's remarks in his speech were made in response to the Labour campaign. Labour was trying to turn Muslim voters against him on the grounds that he wasn't a Muslim. If anyone is to be denounced for "communalism" over the Bradford West campaign it was Labour not Galloway. Galloway didn't try to pit Muslims against non-Muslims - he united all communities behind his candidacy, receiving overwhelming support even in wards that had hardly any Muslim voters.
ReplyDeleteAll Galloway has done is listen and respond - it really is that simple. Its the one thing he did that everyone else didn't do.
ReplyDeleteAnd that is what the person you elect is supposed to do for you - that's their job: to represent you. And they can only do that if they are able to hear you and communicate with you.
Some will call it pandering, others will call it other things. Really, its just communication.
And just one other thing. London Muslim really does need to knock this "Israelites" stuff on the head.
ReplyDeleteIf he wants to refer to members of the Jewish community he should refer to Jews. If he wants to refer to supporters of Israel as a Jewish state he should call them Zionists. But "Israelites" blurs the difference between the two and to most people clearly carries antisemitic overtones, even if that's not what London Muslim intends.
This issue was used to attack ENGAGE over the APPG on Islamophobia, and now it's being used by Gilligan to attack Ken. London Muslim is just providing assistance to those who want to smear the very people he claims to support. He should give it a rest.
@Bob -
ReplyDeleteZionism is a facist political concept - period. Not all Jews are Zionists; and not all Zionists are Jews. The "Jewish state" angle as you use it only seeks to blur that boundary.
Trust you'll all be buying your "Bradford Spring" Ts.from philosophyfootball.com
ReplyDeleteThe must-have for the well-dressed, politically illiterate, trendy leftie.
Let them have Galloway and Livingstone, It is just more proof, as if we need ed any more, that these Muslims will vote for anybody with an Anti West or pro Muslim agenda.People need to wake up to the problem we have in the UK and it's not politicians who gain power of the back of certain groups of people, It's the MUslims them selves, we need to insist on a politician with an anti Islamic agenda see how they like it
ReplyDeletemy god help me there are people in this world who still hold to the bullshit that we are this race our that race I truly do hope we once again blur the lines between white black brown and all the other colours the only way we move away form this is to stop talking about race/religion and start talking sense and hard work and less violence on our fellow man.
ReplyDelete@David marshall,
ReplyDeleteSo Muslims shouldn't vote as they see fit, and their choice is "anti-west." You crackers are such petty hypocrites. We need politicians with an anti-white agenda as you are the cause of every major problem in the world. The less of you, the better it will be for human beings.
Delightful. Britain is to be a battle ground on which the Middle-East insanity is to be played out. This is not a racial problem since all sides in this conflict happen to belong to the same race - Caucasians. Even describing it as a religious conflict has its problems since Islam, Judaism and Christianity are all branches of the same monotheistic fairy tale. This is a cultural conflict. As for all those who wish to desiminate a particular religious mumb-jumbo - a plague on all your houses.
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