Red_Dave said:
two questions
1. whats wrong with ideologues?
2. what was so offensive about saying "two of your daughters - Jerusalem and Baghdad - are being violated by strangers." Its true isnt it?
3 Isnt it fairly unlikely that sadam husien would give money to one of his fircest critics?
That's three questions, but OK.
1. Ideologues refuse to consider any viewpoint that doesn't fall within their rigid set of beliefs. They attempt to interpret reality in a way to match their views, rather than changing their views to match reality.
2. Here's the full quote. Think about this in context of Arab society, and what images these words are likely to convoke: "Two of your beautiful daughters are in the hands of foreigners: Jerusalem and Baghdad. The foreigners are doing to your daughters as they will. The daughters are crying for help and the Arab world is silent. Some of them are collaborating with the rape of these two beautiful Arab daughters." If that's not a direct appeal to terrorists, I don't know what is.
3. If George Galloway was ever a "fierce critic" of Saddam Hussein (which I'm not so sure of), he gave it up as soon as the United States and United Kingdom also became fierce critics of Saddam Hussein. Here are some Galloway quotes about Saddam Hussein:
"Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability" - George Galloway to Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, January 1994
"The state of Kuwait is clearly a part of the greater Iraqi whole, stolen from the motherland by perfidious Albion." - George Galloway, during the first Gulf War
"In my experience none of the Ba'ath leaders have displayed any hostility to Jews." - From George Galloway's autobiography
"It was a civil war that involved massive violence on both sides" - George Galloway, on Saddam Hussein's gassing the Kurds