The Sun is reporting that British MP George Galloway, fresh off his Hamas boosterism parade in Gaza, has been denied entry to Canada on the grounds that he supports terrorist organizations and publicly endorses the murder of Canadian soldiers serving in Afghanistan.
Mr Galloway is due to make a speech in Toronto on March 30, following a US lecture tour, but will be turned away if he tries to enter Canada.
The Canadian High Commission in London was last night contacting the MP’s office to inform him of the decision.
Canadian rules say he will be allowed in only if he has a special permit from immigration minister Jason Kenney.
But Mr Kenney’s spokesman said: “George Galloway is not getting a permit — end of story.
I confess to feeling more than a twinge of happiness at this decision, particularly given the no-nonsense rhetoric of our northern neighbor's immigration minister. Compare Mr. Kenney's terse statement to any mealy-mouthed bureacratese spoken by a flak of the U.S. State Department in like circumstances.
I prepared a dossier on Galloway's involvement in the UN's oil-for-food theft that was used by Christopher Hitchens in his famous Manhattan debate with the Scottish terrier a few years back. Since then I have followed Galloway's antics closely out of a mixture of macabre fascination and amusement. An Orientalist at heart, Galloway most cherishes the martyrological aspects of Islam, and if there is any small compliment that can be paid to him it is that he, unlike other fellow travelers of theocracy, is willing to die for the cause--at least in the metaphoric sense of destroying his career and courting imprisonment by any number of international judiciaries, but very probably in the literal sense as well (he and his sorry entourage were nearly stoned in Palestine by Fatah supporters). His ideology is fundamentally rooted to his character. He's the suicide bomber of Western politics.
When Geert Wilders was turned away from Britain, a country that for centuries prided itself on its willingness to accommodate eccentrics and oddballs suddenly went wobbly-- all at the behest of insecure Islamists threatening to make the Dutchman's arrival a hazard to public safety. That was a scandal, as all forms of censorship are. But Galloway hasn't just spoken out in favor of Hamas -- he's given money and resources to Hamas. I quote from an article in Agency France Presse:
"We are giving you now 100 vehicles and all of their contents, and we make no apology for what I am about to say. We are giving them to the elected government of Palestine," Galloway said at a press conference in Gaza City.
Galloway said he personally would be donating three cars and 25,000 pounds to Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniya as he dared the West to try to prosecute him for aiding what it considers a terror group.
By any definition of international law, that makes him an accomplice of terrorism, unfit for sojourns to North America, and certainly unfit for parliament back home.
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