Abracadabrah<br><br><i> I create as I speak</i>: In Plain English

Tuesday, August 02, 2005

In Plain English

For a truly mind blogging example of George Galloway ranting about his true opinions to Arab audiences, go here and watch this video, provided by Memri. This is not a translation, this is Galloway, speaking in plain, plain English. Among his many choice comments:

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. And some of them are collaborating with the rape of these two beautiful Arab daughters. Why? Because they are too weak and too corrupt to do anything about it.

So glad this guy is in the House of Commons in Britain.

And on a related note:

Say you're strolling through Edinburgh during the festival and hoping to enjoy a spot of anti-imperialism to go along with your dose of anti-semitism. Then this is the right place for you:

The Birmingham Repetory Theatre Company Presents

PRAYER ROOM

A witty and provocative new play about multicultural life, commissioned by the Festival from the Scottish playwright Shan Khan.

There was a place, where The Christians and The Muslims existed in relative peace. Everyone was more or less happy, except for The Jews - who were few and had to be thankful to their Christian Overlords, for the little space they were accorded.

Then one day more Jews came, and it soon became apparent to them that they'd need their own space. So they got their own space - but at The Muslims' expense. The Muslims of course are fuming. The Jews feel they're perfectly within their rights. And The Christians are trying to take a back-seat and let the other two share the blame. This place is a multi-faith Prayer Room in a British college.

Don't you love the subtlety on display here. If you think really hard, a light dawns and you realize, Prayer Room! Why that's a metaphor for Israel!

Uh huh. And what's the message this show generates?

Could it be?

Why yes it is!

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. And some of them are collaborating with the rape of these two beautiful Arab daughters. Why? Because they are too weak and too corrupt to do anything about it.

Isn't it lovely to observe how well Galloway represents the views of his constituents!

You know, the line at which there is a consensus that something is anti-semitic is currently so fluid in Britain that I actually wonder what ordinary British people think when they see things like this, if anything at all. Among the ones who aren't all rah, rah, rah, rain death and hell down upon those Zionists!, is their response to this blasé and unexceptionable? Or does it provoke something sharper?