George Galloway

[anotheoldgit]

Was George Galloway right to state the follwing on last night's late night 'Talk Sport Radio'?

He said that "any black man would be right to be scared to go under the surgeons knife, if he knew that the surgeon was a member of the BNP".

Knowing his views and support on muslim countries etc, what would his reaction have been if someone had said "how would a white man feel if he knew his surgeon was a muslim"? Let's face it a muslim doctor was recently jailed for being a terrorist and for trying to blow us up.

I have yet to hear of a Doctor (who also happened to be a member of the BNP), try to blow up anyone least of all a black man.

[New Judge]

George Galloway is a pillock who has done more harm to social cohesion than the BNP ever will.

If he had made an oppositely worded remark along the lines you suggest he would not only have been castigated but probably arrested.

[Supernick]

I imagine that his reaction would be to smash his head repeatedly into a wall after 5 hours trying to make sense of that ridiculous analogy. I'm annoyed that it even exists as memory space in my brain that could have been more preferably filled with Wizzard's 'I wish it could be Christmas' on loop. EVEN THAT is a better use of my time.

[JockSporran]

George ' pussy' Galloway is an ass.

[New Judge]

ai don't quite understand nick.

Are you saying that the oldgit's analogy is not credible?

[tigerlily11]

Does any one actually pay any attention to this burk any more.
And why wa he discussing surgeons on a sports show for.

[rov1200]

I think its more likely for a white man to go under the black surgeon who had sympathies for Al Qaeda. Wasn't that brain surgeon who smashed his car into the airport building and now serving 35 years an Islamic terrorist?

[sherminator]

I've not see anyonone come out and complain about the treatment they received from the terrorist doctor and a doctor should really be impartial when treating patients.

[Quinlad]

The analogy's not credible.

It might have worked slightly better if you'd replaced Muslim with Islamist.

But you didn't.

[Kromovaracun]

I have yet to hear of a Doctor (who also happened to be a member of the BNP), try to blow up anyone least of all a black man.

http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/terrorists_ spies/terrorists/dr_robert_goldstein/index.htm l

http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/serial_kill ers/notorious/shipman/dead_1.html

http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/terrorists_ spies/terrorists/larry_ford/1.html

[Kromovaracun]

Not BNP members, I'll grant, but frankly you're generalising so badly it doesn't even matter.

[Supernick]

The scales have fallen from my eyes. You can't trust Muslims, nor Germans, Italians, Japanese, as they've all tried to do us over at some stage. Actually some white kid threw a punch at me in the pub once, I'd better steer clear of them as well. And it's not just doctors!!! Imagine if some of them worked in Tesco, or serviced your car! You might end up with your brakes cut, wrapped round the central reservation, already dead from a poisoned chicken lasagna ready meal.
What's best is to become a hermit in a wood, doing everything for myself. They can't get me in the woods. You're safe in the woods, Nick. Safe.

[anotheoldgit]

Kromovaracun

Meant to say surgeon as G.Galloway referred to.

So I think your links were a waste of time.

None of them were surgeons (but I will forgive you that since I made the mistake)

Not Muslims (which you later admitted)

None actually blew anyone up.

It was not me who generalised but G. Galloway and yourself.

I was only challenging the stupiod remark he made on national radio.

[Quinlad]

Your analogy didn't quite work, though.

[anotheoldgit]

Kromovaracun

Meant to say surgeon as G.Galloway referred to.

So I think your links were a waste of time.

None of them were surgeons (but I will forgive you that since I made the mistake)

Not Muslims (which you later admitted)

None actually blew anyone up.

It was not me who generalised but G. Galloway and yourself.

I was only challenging the stupid remark he made on national radio.

[andy-hughes]

For once aog, I am in agreement with you.

Galloway seems to have made a career from making these ill-thought-out provocative statements in public, which do far more to elevate his imagined status as a 'spokesman' of anyone with any sanity.

The entire premise of his statement is ridiculous - I have had surgery various times, and never thought to check out the political pursuasion of the surgeon in question.

I would assume that the intellgience, sensitivity, and desire to help people required to reach the levels of a surgeon would preclude any of the BNP's philosophies, so if I were black, i doubt the thought would ocur to me - any more than it did when I have been operated on by Muslim surgeons.

[anotheoldgit]

Sorry for the repeat, Answer Bank acting up yet again.

[Supernick]

For the record, BOTH Galloway and AOG's statements are mental to the point of depressing.

[anotheoldgit]

Quinlad

So I take it that you agree with Galloway's stupid remark then?

But then why does this not suprise me?

[Quinlad]

Nope, I disagree. Although I see what he means.

But your analogy is badly - but predictably - off the mark.