brilliant actually to see you I love to
see you me
up hello D how are
you how are
you how are you are
you I'm tired I don't know
about my day started at 300 a.m. in VI
how are
you how's it and then George looking
gangster
no
no always has the best
not necessarily anything else
but they put a giant B right oppos
the to Mr George Galloway who will speak
a little bit about that and then if um
if there's anybody I think there's one
or two other speakers who wanted to come
and say a few words um so with without
further Ado may I please present to you
Mr George Galloway give him a be hand
please brothers sisters comrades and
friends I was here on Monday Night In
This Very
mosque talking to some very shocked
people uh one of whom had
been the man who had been in the mosque
on Saturday afternoon exactly one week
ago go
almost uh to the
hour uh who had been forced to
confront the 10
uniformed
fascists who forced their way in here
into this MOS and into several other
mosques they boasted 10 we've not been
able to identify uh 10 yet don't worry I
don't need it they've not been able to
identify 10 uh but they boasted that it
was 10 they also boasted that they' done
the same thing at the Lord mayor's
house uh forcing their way into his
house and his absence uh and terrifying
his daughter so we know they terrified
the mayor's daughter and we know they
frightened some old men in some of these
mosques that they invaded which is not
the bravest act that uh any such
organization has ever done it's quite
cowardly actually but it was the most
significant act that any of these
organizations have ever done we've had a
lot of
these Islam hating Muslim hating racist
organizations in the past of
course we've had the the national front
the BNP the
edl and all of them have caused trouble
for Muslims individually on the streets
or outside
mosques but none of them had the goal to
actually enter not one but many mosques
in one city in one afternoon in
uniform trampling around inside the
mosque wearing their
shoes handing out Bibles
which almost certainly they've never
read and almost certainly the people
they were handing them to knew the Bible
better than they
did handing out hate literature was
described in the media as
Flyers we have a picture of the flyer in
question
which defamed the prophet
himself defamed
pakistanis and defamed musl Muslims in
general as pedophiles as
perverts as
groomers and the old man that they
confronted in this
mosque they asked him where are the
girls where are the girls that you're
grooming are the end here are the end
there
Etc
this operation that they
pulled was an extremely well organized
one
it was done with semi-military
Precision they knew what times they were
coming they didn't show up at Juma to be
confronted by four five 6 7 800 people
no they chose their times very carefully
they arrived in two motor cars which
they parked side by side like a kind of
police
raid the woman
opened the doors took the pictures took
the videos and the men rushed in and
indeed the same thing same drill uh when
they were
leaving now this is a
significant development in the tactics
of these
farri racist
organizations and we have to take them
at their word they're going to do it
again they're going to do it again in
Bradford they're going to do it again in
Yorkshire they're going to do it again
elsewhere in the
country and you can see why it's put
them right to the top of the
charts in Far right uh organizational
terms they have in one act or one
afternoon they have eclipsed the edl and
the BNP who can only
I'm sure GP their teeth as they see a
rival far right
organization being able to boast uh of
this
operation so we're clearly dealing with
potentially dangerous people because
they are a breakaway from the edl a
breakaway from the
BNP who've left these two organizations
because they say these two organizations
are not extreme enough for them are not
confronting Islam and Muslims sharply
enough for their liking we know that
they have very close links with uh star
loyalists in the north of Ireland which
means potentially they have access to
weapons uh rather obviously and
easily we know that they know the shock
value of what they did so there is every
reason to believe that they will be
back so on Monday night I uh drove up
from London I was in Parliament in
Westminster lobbying the home office for
an
explanation not just of what had
happened but of their silence because I
suppose in a way just as
shocking as the acts themselves was the
to Silence with which they were
greeted I asked the question on
television and on radio I ask it again
now if 10 Muslims had forced their way
into 10 churches and forced their way
into Boris Johnson's house to hand out
qurans and leaflets denouncing pedophile
priests can you imagine the Scandal that
that would have been can you imagine the
media Sky News The Daily Mail the sun it
would still be on the front page 7 Days
Later there'd be Radio phone in shows
about it what can we do can we Deport
them can we take their passports are
they really British it would have
been a major maybe the major national
media story shaik in the media I'm sure
after I've spoken he'll confirm that it
would have been really big new
news but in this case it was no news at
all none at
all and not only did the media ignore it
the politicians ignored it the people
who
represent the people who used the
Moses were absolutely silent I've just
been over in toer the word of uh Imran
Hussein he's not a quiet man by the way
he's quite a fog horn
if you get my drift but it took him 3
days to speak on Facebook about what had
happened in Bradford and he's the deputy
leader of the city council if I'd been
the deputy leader of the city council I
would have been in all these mosques
before I even got there but they were
absent without leave
hiding and actually the city council has
sunk to the
occasion the labor MP for Bradford South
still hasn't spoken about it exactly one
week later they say he's on holiday I
don't know where he is it must be Tim
Baku because he appears not to even know
that it actually has even happened and
David Ward was several days late and
absent without leave also so that's just
as shocking to me the silence as the
acts themselves but the acts themselves
are more significant I toured all these
mosque I met with the imams presidents
chairman of mos
committees and others including the
Council of mos in Bradford and I asked
them to take uh certain
steps first of all to insist as I did we
went directly to the peace command the
police commander on uh
Monday and demanded that he provide
protection for the property and the
people and I see that they have there's
a police car just around the corner
there's been a police presence at many
of the mosques uh over the last couple
of days I I think that the commander
Simon Atkin is serious when he says that
he's taking it seriously he's collecting
statements he brought back uh
superintendent from
holiday uh the woman who investigated
the Hamza Khan baby uh uh
Scandal uh who's quite a significant
police officer with a big future uh he's
given her the job of heading up the
inquiry and he brought her back from
holiday to do so which is a good sign a
sign that the police are taking it
seriously more seriously than the
politicians or the media so that's the
first thing we have to demand that the
police defend the people and the
property or we'll have to defend
ourselves and that will not be a good
look it will not look good for the
police cuz it will show that we've got
no confidence in them it will not look
good for us cuz it's never a great
picture and it will be bad for
Bradford but of course if they don't
protect us we have to protect
ourselves the second thing I asked them
pointed out to them we viewed the CCTV
at uh the uh Abu Bakr
mosque and frankly it was
useless it captured all the events but
the quality of the film was such that if
you had been lying relying on
identification you would not have been
able to convict them on the basis of
that CCTV because the pictures were too
poor luckily we don't have to worry
about identification cuz they've all
identified themselves in their own media
work but if we had been depending on it
it wouldn't have worked so there's no
point in having CCTV in fact a lot of
houses and shops and restaurants and so
on have CCTV for a deterrent effect and
actually quite often it's not very good
sometimes not even working at all but
the mosques can't afford that because if
these people come back we need to have
sharp
clear efficient CCTV coverage
so I'm not in the business of selling
CCTV but I am encouraging the mosques to
uh buy it the third thing I'm
encouraging is that we we need to be
able to all communicate with each other
very quickly in the case of an
emergency so I've urged people in the
mosques to set up a telephone tree
starting with the nearest houses to the
mosque I'm working
outwards so that the first thing that's
done is dial 9999 and the second thing
that's done is phone one person or two
persons who then phone one or two one or
two one or two and before you can say
Jack Robinson we've got a crowd of young
men able to do so to be at the mosque uh
to defend it and
lastly we have
to
understand that these organizations
don't come out of thin
air they're coming out of a gale of
islamophobia that the media is
generating and the political class
especially in the runup to an election
is generating when Nao farage
speaks or when the tourist Echo
farage and labor and the liberal
Democrats mildly echoed them all of that
is poisoning the atmosphere against
immigrants and
particularly you Muslims who of course
mostly are not immigrants at
all but that's not what they mean when
they say immigrants they mean people who
are your color rather than uh
mine the media for 2 weeks before this
event has been absolutely infatuated
with the question of Halal Chicken in
Subway
sandwiches if you Google it you'll see
Acres of coverage on this
subject and it's no coincidence that
these Thugs who attack the mosques also
attack the subway here in Bradford
attacked a s a sandwich
shot because it might be selling Halal
chicken sandwiches so this atmosphere of
hatred fear loathing of Muslims even
though it's totally illogical I mean
this infatuation with
grooming that they have some of them
look like they should be at the barber
doing a bit of grooming themselves by
the way but this infatuation with
grooming of
course flies in the face of the fact
that the vast majority of grooming and
pedophilia cases in Britain involve such
well-known Muslims as Jimmy Muhammad
savil Stuart Abdul
Hall Max Hamza Clifford and so on the
vast majority of these dirty criminals
that commit these foul crimes are of
course not Muslim not Pakistani of
course there are some dirty
criminals in our community of course
there is in every Community but 90%
90 90% of offenses of this kind are
committed by non-muslim white people
yeah if you listen to their obsessive
propaganda you would imagine that uh the
Muslim Community is out roaming around
the country looking for uh girls uh and
children uh to abuse so we need
politicians and media to stand up
against this and I the performance say
this in the presence of a media
representative uh here the performance
of the media in this regard has been
simply
pitiful one guy on
LBC yesterday James O'Brien is it James
O'Brien one guy James
O'Brien destroyed njel farage destroyed
his hypocrisy his racism his double
standards destroyed them in one
interview but it was only on
LBC and it's only a week less than a
week to the polls where were all the
other journalists why didn't they do the
job that James O'Brien did on LBC it's
worth looking for on YouTube you'll
you'll be impressed I don't know man
from what I hear he's not any political
friend of ours but he did his job as a
journalist properly by puncturing
farage's pretentions In This regard on
LBC yesterday the media has to step up
to the plate the politicians have to
step up to the plate the people have to
be vigilant and organized because these
people will come back and when they come
back back God forbid they may do things
worse than the things they did last
Saturday afternoon and then we'll really
have a problem this is the 25th
anniversary coming up of the salmon
rushi so-called riots in
Bradford we don't want people to
remember that we don't want these
pictures back out again we don't want to
repeat and we are determined that this
issue should not be made bigger than it
is but equally that it cannot be made
smaller than it is it is an important
new development and we can't ignore it
we have to organize ourselves to protect
the places and the people that are
precious to us uh against italam alaykum
thank you very much thank you very much
George I just want to add one thing to
that uh everything needed to be said
Georgia said very eloquently but these
racist bigots who come into our city
they come with one purpose and that's
to uh divide us into different section
now I've been campaigning as a candidate
in this Ward for respect I've been
campaigning in this uh Ward for several
weeks now and it's become very clear to
me that one thing that everybody here
asks about is where are you from what's
your background around where was your
dad from where was your grandfather from
are you jet are you chy are you this are
you that and that's something is
abhorent now these people try to divide
us up we kind of do a good job dividing
ourselves up into sunnis and Shia this
must stop if there's one message that
I'd like to give to people in this world
is come become United become one people
we're human beings we're Muslims and we
can be one people when something like
this happens we should come together and
show these bigots that we will not be
divided on some issues we may have our
political differences but in spite of
those differences we are one people we
whatever School your Chri goes to is the
same school that your Raja goes to and
all these uh services that we demand of
our councils are actually something that
we all share in the community so we need
to get out of this um you know cast and
Creed and religious differences CU we
have much more in common the the second
thing I wanted to say
was
um the elections are only a few days
away from now I've challenged that
hostings only two days ago councelor ex
councelor ryaz and the sitting councelor
shafik and I said guys when the um
bigots invaded your mosques and this
mosque is in more or less owned by your
brothery system here what did you do did
you go into the mosque and ask did you
find out from the people who were
affected did you go and speak to the
imams and he put his head down as if in
shame and somebody in the audience
actually said you should hang your head
down in shame I said when we found out
George found out on the Sunday evening
that this had happened next morning
canceled his engagement and he was down
in Bradford and I was with him when we
visited all every mosque and he had the
meeting with the police now we need
politicians who take action we need
politicians who are strong voices and
can take the bull by the horn and not be
afraid who they're going to lose along
the way if you speak for peace and
Justice and equality then you peace for
you speak for peace and Justice and
equality not your brothery system so one
message I'd like to give is let's all
guys get together we're all one people
and when these people come into our city
let's stand here like Spartacus saying
we're all Spartacus we're all Muslims
we're all human beings and you will not
divide us I wanted to pass that message
on to you now um before we finish I know
George has got to go I'd like to ask
brother shafik when these things happen
there's one face we will see on Sky TV
and BBC standing up for the people you
know and and our communities it's
brother shafik Muhammad shaik it's a
pleasure to have you here shaik from all
the way from Blackburn and I would like
you to say a few words please I'll keep
you very brief as well I I'll leave the
Party politics uh to the politicians as
an independent broadcaster I just wanted
to come and show solidarity uh to thank
George uh for all that he's doing for
the people of Bradford West people keep
asking me where is George and every time
I come to Bradford George is in Bradford
in Bradford um so anybody who wants to
see George and when he's not in Bradford
he's in Parliament working for the
people of Bradford um I've known George
for 16 years it's a pretty long
relationship and one thing I know is
that he's very passionate um and
committed to the issues that affect our
communities um the fact that we saw
fascists come uh to the mosque here in
Brad they came to my hometown of
Rochdale and Manchester um a few months
ago and we I've could to Stand United
we've got to take action not just uh
about foring people as George was saying
but I actually think we need to SLE
patrols I yesterday I was speaking in a
meeting in uh in Tower hamlets you know
it well a big Orthodox Jewish community
and they've got their own security uh
you know initiative a voluntary security
system where people look after the
mosque and Patrol the streets and
actually I think I think that's the
direction Brad should be going in that's
the council the imams community leaders
the counselors the politicians everybody
coming together and saying let's do
something uh will have lasting impact
working in partnership with the police
to make sure that happens because you
know on this occasion they only came and
give it give out a few Bibles in future
occasions they will be using violence um
they've threatened violence and they'll
be using violence we've talked about the
issue of grooming we condemn it as
Muslims when the people who do such
crimes don't do so in our name well
we've confronted this issue I I
single-handedly speaking out about this
on many occasions and I do that because
we believe we have to give a strong
voice but as George said 57 uh sorry 87%
of sexual offenses against children
committed in this country are committed
by white men it doesn't mean that we
hold whole of White Society responsible
so you know it's good to be here to
support Arad he's a he's a good friend
uh but I think the important thing is
we've got to unite uh we've got to stand
as one community and really focus on how
we can make our mosque safe you know
we've seen in the aftermath of re rig uh
our mosque attacks and firebombs uh we
don't want that to happen here in
Bradford or anywhere else so it's up to
you uh to put the pressure on the
politicians and make sure that you know
we set up services we set up protection
teams to protect our mosc our community
because uh I I I was spoken to Muhammad
Saleem you may not know him he was the
um 80-year-old pensioner was murdered by
a fascist on the streets of Birmingham a
few last year and spoke to his family
and they devastated the fact they're
losing people and the fact that we the
community is silent so I suppose in
conclusion you know solidarity to George
and uh to ARA and everybody here who've
done some magnificent work over the last
seven days to highlight this issue I've
tried to do my bit on on on the BBC and
Sky uh over the last few days as well
but I think it's so important that we
highlight this issue um and I wish you
well
obviously politically speaking I can't
say a good look but as a Muslim I pray
for you if your intentions are clean
Allah give you success in your campaign
thank you very
much there is
um I was speaking to an elderly
gentleman who was having a a Bible
pushed into his hand and being told why
don't you stop grooming why don't you
stop grooming why don't you as if he was
grooming people you know he was in the
mosque trying to worship Allah you know
pray no muslim agrees with grooming no
human being OB religion will agree with
grooming it's a terrible thing to do and
we must all stand in solidarity against
those that do do it and if you're going
to give a a Bible to a Muslim he's
probably going to do what kiss it
because he believes in the Bible it's
his holy book so they failed on those
counts there they tried to create
trouble they tried to create divisive
policies here tried to fight one against
the other we didn't we didn't rise to
that and if they do come again as J said
we've got to be prepared they probably
will come down again but we've got to be
repared in a nonviolence way let the
police deal with it if the police fail
then we have a duty to protect our
places of worship our places of
accommodation and our streets and you
know our communities but first of all
it's the duty of the police and the
counselors who pretty much do nothing
except turn up after 5 years and uh ask
for votes and I've going a hosting you
know uh next couple of days with the two
blocks from this area and I'm going to
hold them to account we're going to ask
some hard tough questions there and
normally going by the hostings I had
with them already they'll have nothing
to say nothing to say why do they say
sorry why do they say because they did
nothing and I asked him a direct
question I said what did you do and both
of them H hung their head down they did
nothing and then the audience spoke up
and they said they have done nothing
sorry why did they do nothing all the
council is just well uh uh did they do
nothing I think that's a a better
question than it at first uh appears uh
because I genuinely don't know the
answer to that I did say to you if it
was me mhm I would have seized that
moment if I had been one of the council
leaders in this city facing the threat
that they face from us I would have been
second place to no man on this question
I would have immediately left the city
Chambers gone to every mosque I'd have
been immediately demanding that the Home
Secretary speak up I'd be demanding that
the police
frankly have a slightly better uh
presence uh than they have even at this
mosque which was attacked a week ago a
week ago just as well that these people
haven't come back uh today cuz the
police have gone um I would have as a
political figure myself I would have
spoken out long loud and long why they
did not I really genuinely don't
understand it except
that they are so poor the leadership in
Bradford is so weak so poor that perhaps
they are just not capable maybe of
finding the words and finding the spirit
to express those words maybe they just
puppet other than leaders well well
because un for call ex Lord mayor he's a
councelor cting counselor did nothing he
should shafik has been a counselor for
what three times did nothing R the Liv
Dem guy being a counselor several times
but did nothing our Deputy leader of the
council Imran Hussein did nothing until
3 days later when he already heard that
this man did and Imam Hussein's father
has the goal to stand and say he's a
blot on the name of Muslims when he was
the only one who came from London and
defended the Muslim Community so they're
there just by the backing of their
families they're there because the
brother system supports them my point
earlier on if we can change the
brotherly system we can change the
politics in Bradford because then we can
stun for for principles and something
vision and some that we stand for but if
I'm asking knocking on people's doors
say where are you from are you B all
right then I'll support you then are you
CH well are you this still going on it
still goes on unfortunately it's
shameful shameful
things yes I I gate crashed a closed
meeting yesterday mosque Dave Green was
present Dave Ward was President
um president I don't think real present
but all the imams all the political
leaders soall imanin was also there
every single one of them was sat there
praising each other about what they had
done mutual respect they were all
praising each other I don't think he was
I wasn't invited no it's not my
constituency here but that didn't stop
me coming here first yeah yeah yeah and
um so they were all there uh praising
each other not one of them mentioned
George's name who Who Rose for the
occasion who's leading spearhead in the
whole campaign not one of them mentioned
him there will two be the presing each
other all this time that's very fun
something they
say yeah Dave Ward started mumbling um
he mumbled on for about 2 minutes and I
couldn't take it no more so I had to
leave any other question counc shaf
tried to take a credit at the cting
husting other day for Westfield being
built yeah until I lost I don't lose my
rug very often but lost it with him you
know in his own way you know we did you
know the Westfield is now there building
I said I a going to mate stop there one
moment 8 years you sat in your seat
taking the salary and we did nothing and
then when we get elected we have a
respect Party come to town and the
building is now halfway built right
Westfield isn't a hall in the you know
center of the city anymore something is
happening so stop taking credit these
people are opportunists and we vote for
them it's our fault for voting for
because we use the brothery system we
use that it's time for us to end that
now thank you very much brothers I know
um you have to go somewhere I George is
very very busy he go to keithly George I
really appreciate your support and
solidarity as always I mean words fail
us sometimes when we have to thank you
cuz you do so much and thank you very
much
how are you
brother to ding
my I'm fine thank