Galloway "confident" MAB will join "Respect"
By Sacha Ismail Last Friday night, 5/12/03, George Galloway declared that he was "confident" that the Muslim Association of Britain would "come on board" the "Respect" Unity coalition. It was at a meeting which Nick Clark and I attended, organised by the Muslim anti-war/"social justice" organisation Just Peace and the "young Muslim professionals' group" City Circle. Why did we bother? Because the speakers were none other than George Galloway and French Islamist Tariq Ramadan (who caused such controversy when he spoke at the European Social Forum). There were about 120-30 people there...