Things have come to a pretty pass when Britons would enjoy more protection under Iraqi jurisdiction than under UK/EU jurisdiction. The Iraqi courts are under no illusions, they are beholden to no paralysing ideology, they know exactly what needs to be done with captured ISIS personnel, and thank God they don’t flinch from doing it. Western governments help known terrorists and rapists to walk our streets and manoeuvre to spirit surviving ISIS (former Western) captives and their purported offspring back to the West. Our police and judiciary pounce on anyone saying anything that might hurt the tender feelings of these delicate killers and rapists. Our media will not say peep about them. Everyone is afraid and keeps on the right side of silence. No one recalls the anguish with which the German public looked back on their axiomatic, self-evident, absolute certainties before it all went so horribly wrong. No one recalls George Orwell’s reality-reversal in “Freedom is Slavery”. Like hard-wired, impenetrable automatons, the virtue-signalling battalions stand, folded arms and stern-faced, yelling and spitting “racist!” and “fascist!” and “Nazi!” at Tommy Robinson, the bravest of those prepared to save them from Islam and from themselves. None can explain what makes him any of those things. None sees the need to explain.
This is what we’ve come to. We must now rely on the Iraqi judiciary to keep us safe from ISIS jihadis: “The punishment, as much as it seems strong, will affect the security of your country… I am sure there are hundreds of people in Britain at this moment thinking of committing similar crimes.” Millions of Britons and other Europeans marched in opposition to precisely such security coming about, although, of course, they were not thinking that far at the time. How many would not listen to Christopher Hitchens? How many are not listening still? But at least no one called him a racist and a Nazi for his troubles. Which brings us neatly to “the Mother of all Talkshows.”
When Tommy Robinson, a victim of Britain’s monumental national ingratitude, confronted George Galloway on air with Islam’s 1400-year track record, Galloway surpassed even himself: “Your knuckles are dragging the ground!” he yelled at his guest. “What do you know about Islam? You know nothing about Islam!” This from a man who abased himself before Saddam Hussein, to a man who co-edited a Qur’an (later banned by Amazon). Useful idiots come neither more useful, nor more idiotic. It is clear why Galloway had no respect to spare for his fellow countryman who’d done time for defending freedom and democracy from the very people the Iraqi judges are now executing. He reserves his respect for tyrannical families and tyrannical ideologies. Knuckle-dragger 1: Useful Idiot 0.
To be clear, Mr Galloway, too, wants to end the lives of ISIS jihadis. “I will take a gun and shoot them dead!” bellowed Mr Galloway before his uncomfortably-entertained Oxford Union audience. Except that he did not say “jihadis”. He will not say “jihadis”. He cannot say “jihadis”.
“Terrorism is, of course, a separate matter. …If Al-Qaida and ISIS come here, we must shoot them dead. …This is an entirely red herring, a straw man, introduced into this debate in order to confuse. I want to see all the members of ISIS and al-Qaida and all the other organisations like them dead on the battlefield. …the words ‘Western intervention’ and ‘ISIS’ oughtn’t to appear in the same sentence. Because, of course, the West are responsible for ISIS. It was the West who created ISIS. …But what is less well known is that this game started very much longer ago than that.”
“Very much longer ago,” Mr Galloway immediately clarifies, was “when the British and American governments …built up this monster of Islamist fanaticism and extremism.” In other words, very much longer ago was 1994. And what is his authoritative source? Rambo V — I kid you not, Hollywood (see the source above). The creation of the Taliban had nothing to do with Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Agency, no-no. How could an Islamic Republic possibly have anything to do with “Islamist fanaticism and extremism”? That’s just another Western red herring.
Had Mr Galloway deigned to give the knuckle-dragging specimen a chance to make his point, especially as this same knuckle-dragger had just two years earlier, with much greater dignity, eloquence and respect, addressed an audience in that same Oxford Union, he might’ve learnt that “very much longer ago” was 1400 years ago, when a certain illiterate Arabian merchant-turned-warlord contrived the most perfect system of evil the world has ever known, a system we know as Islam, a system to which Adolf Hitler could but dreamily aspire.
But here’s the thing: Mr Galloway knows this, as do most of those who bellow about Western responsibility for the misery that supposedly leads to the likes of ISIS, al-Qaida, etc. It is highly-unlikely that Mr Galloway is unaware of exactly what state “the West” had found the Middle East in when they got there. When Winston Churchill got there, he found this:
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property – either as a child, a wife, or a concubine – must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.”
It is as unlikely that Mr Galloway is unaware of Churchill’s The River Wars as it is unlikely that he is unaware of the Qur’an. In the latter is laid out very precisely the things that ISIS and al-Qaida and all the other organisations like them must do. Is it at all possible he does not know that “organisations like them” stretch all the way back across 1400 years to “very much longer ago,” doing exactly as those organisations do, for exactly the same reasons as they do it? Mr Galloway is a well-read man, and all the more perfidious for being so.
But Mr Galloway, unlike the knuckle-dragging Tommy Robinson, has made a career out of sycophancy towards Arabs and Muslims and calls it respect. “If Al-Qaida and ISIS come here,” yelled Mr Galloway, “I will shoot them dead”, except that they are here, Mr Galloway, in large numbers, already killing and maiming on our streets, their battlefield for years. Mr Galloway knows this as well as Tommy Robinson does, but while Tommy risks his life actually fighting them, Mr Galloway is — well, Respect and all that. No, George Galloway is not confused. Not a bit. His bluff is called. He won’t be shooting any ISIS or Al-Qaida brothers today. Knuckle-dragger 2: Useful idiot 0.
But there is no depth to which Mr Galloway’s Mother of all Propaganda Services will not sink to whitewash Islam. When the British Prime Minister ordered police not to investigate Muslim gangs raping young infidel girls in the UK, he was doing no different to Mr Galloway in denying that any such crimes are even taking place. And here’s the thing: it is none other than Tommy Robinson, Galloway’s knuckle-dragger, who toils doggedly to bring these crimes to light and who has done everything to support the victims of those crimes ever since. Moreover, unlike Mr Galloway, Tommy doesn’t deny who’s doing it. This knuckle-dragger, with all his imperfections, has become the conscience of what was once a great nation that claimed for itself the mantle of ‘fair play’.
So Galloway must do what liars always do when they realise they’re about to be exposed by someone much lower down the social pecking order than themselves: he belittles Tommy, he abuses him and humiliates him, “Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!” all because Galloway is too weak to face up to the sham that he is, too insecure to acknowledge his mistakes, and too cowardly to change course. Mr Galloway wanted the ISIS fighters dead. The Iraqi judiciary is accomplishing just that. They should not expect thanks from Mr Galloway. Not on your red lycra cat suit, not on your Cuban cigar, not on your posey black hat. Never. Knuckle-dragger 3: Useful idiot 0.
He fawns, he kowtows, and he submits: this he falsely names Respect, and where he eulogises a tyrant, he calls it peace.