Here’s George Galloway being disgusting in 2008, that time he said a gay man was executed in Iran not because he was gay but because he committed “sex crimes” – on the basis of nothing whatever, apparently.
Outspoken London MP George Galloway has said that the boyfriend of Iranian asylum seeker Mehdi Kazemi was executed for sex crimes.
The Respect politician made his claims on Channel Five show The Wright Stuff yesterday morning.
Mr Kazemi is claiming asylum in the UK.
He claims his boyfriend was arrested by police in Iran for being homosexual, forced to reveal the names of men he had relationships with, and executed.
The 19-year-old also said there was a warrant for his arrest as a result of his boyfriend’s confession and he would face execution if he was returned.
But Galloway said don’t you believe it. Galloway said it was a calumny on that nice Iran.
Mr Galloway, the MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, is well-known for his trenchant views and belief that there is a media conspiracy to portray Iran in a bad light.
“This is being used as part of the on-going propaganda against Iran,” he told presenter Matthew Wright yesterday.
“All the papers seem to imply that you get executed in Iran for being gay. That’s not true.”
Yes it is. It’s been documented. For years.
Matthew Wright: His boyfriend was hung though, wasn’t he?
George Galloway: Yes, but nor being gay. For uh, committing sex crimes, uh, against young men.
MW: Right …
GG: I mean, I’m against execution for any reason in any place, but it is important to avoid that propaganda.
Even when it’s true, apparently.
Gay rights group OutRage! has challenged Mr Galloway to provide proof of his assertions.
“We are calling on George Galloway to explain the source of his claim that Mehdi Kazemi’s boyfriend had committed sex crimes and this was the reason he was executed,” said OutRage! spokesperson Brett Lock.
“Neither OutRage! nor any other human rights group has seen any evidence to suggest that Mr Kazemi’s partner was a rapist or sex-abuser.
“Mr Galloway’s claim that gay people are not executed in Iran is refuted by every reputable human rights body, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.”
Well they’re not on Iran’s payroll.
I love Matthew Wright’s response. “Right….” as you slowly extricate yourself from the crazy person talking about chemtrails and fluoridation
Galloway’s endorsement of dictatorship extends beyond the Muslim world. Here he is in 2008 at a rally for the ultra Stalinist Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist Leninist)* praising Mao’s cultural revolution and denouncing free Tibet protestors as ‘Running dogs of imperialism’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuWNlFkrihQ
The CPGB (ML) is a tiny little sect whose sole purpose appears to be to endorse every brutal despot in existence, provided that despot is at least vaguely anti-American. The party has pledged its colours to North Korea, its chairman Harpal Brar wrote an entire book praising Robert Mugabe, they offer unconditional support to Hamas and Hezbollah and have marched under the slogans ‘victory to Assad’ and ‘victory to Gaddafi’. (Though even they draw the line at ISIS) since they lack any resources to bribe Galloway in the manner to which he is accustomed I can only conclude he was at that meeting out of genuine solidarity with their warped ideas.
What a great friend Galloway is to the Muslim world, endorsing a Chinese dictatorship that occupies and subjugates Muslim East Turkestan with far more viciousness that Israel has ever shown in Gaza. He displayed that same friendship when he endorsed the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, which resulted in the deaths of over a million Muslims. Fraternal love towards the Muslim world must have been utmost in his mind when he opposed effective intervention in Bosnia, to prevent the attempted genocide of its Muslim population by Milosevic’s thugs. Galloway once said ‘a billion Muslims know my name’. I truly hope so, George, I hope they never forget it.
*not to be confused with the Communist Party of Britain (Marxist Leninist) or the Revolutionary communist Party of Britain (Marxist Leninist) never mind the Communist Party of Britain, the Communist Party of Great Britain or the New Communist Party of Britain. Seriously, I’m not making any of this up.
@newenlightenment: Splitters!
Hi DID commit sex crimes against young men: consensual gay sex. Which is illegal. In Iran. Get it?
“All the papers seem to imply that you get executed in Iran for being gay. That’s not true.”
I’ve heard that a lot of teenage boys were hanged in Iran, allegedly for being gay, but, in reality, for resisting the sexual advances of older mullahs. So Gorgeous George may not be TOTALLY wrong here.
PS: themann1086 beat me to that rather obvious punchline. (And why did my spellchecker redline “punchline?”)
since they lack any resources to bribe Galloway in the manner to which he is accustomed I can only conclude he was at that meeting out of genuine solidarity with their warped ideas.
He might have been there because he was bribed by the same people who are funding stupid-assed splitter-groups like the CPGB (ML).