Just over a year ago, the Capital Times, the Progressive and the UW Madison Havens Center arranged for George Galloway to come speak in Madison specifically because of his grandiose opposition to the war in Iraq. At the time, Patrick Barrett, administrative director of the Havens Center states: “Despite growing opposition to the war, the debate seen in the media and by the "political elite" is still one-sided, skewed in favor of the war”. In the mind of Madison liberals, the national media has just been to pro-war.
Today Galloway is meeting with the terrorist group Hamas and voicing his continued “appreciation of the Lebanese and Palestinian resistance men in facing the Israeli aggression” and is also being singled out for praise on the latest Al Qaeda video. That’s major props from two Islamic Jihadist religious terrorist groups in one day. Bill Wineke of the Wisconsin State Journal expressed some doubts a couple months ago and today should serve to reinforce his concerns.
Wasn't George Galloway Our Liberal Guy?: “he was hailed by many of us in the liberal camp as a politician with conscience. This week, he's suggested he can understand why someone vehemently opposed to the war might assassinate Blair. Which goes to show why all of us, liberal or conservative, ought to be a little careful about embracing nutcases who happen to agree with us on one issue or another.
Convert or Die is the danger to the west and it is about time western liberals stop pretending that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Signs of maturity in the Democratic Party leadership would be to expel the “nutcases”, denounce crackpot 9/11 conspiracy theories and condemn the excesses of hate speech from their supporters. Saudi Arabia lost control of the Jihadist frenzy they enabled and the western left is on the verge of loosing control of their emotionally hypercharged activists.
