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All faiths must be prepared to be as rigorously tested as each other and none can expect a special hiding place behind the law.

— George Galloway

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In the UK, blasphemy was still a criminal offence which Galloway saw as being an "anachronism". The issue was current because of The Satanic Verses controversy.

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This murder of Hariri was deliberately planned and executed precisely to implicate Syria and to set in train the events which have unfolded.

Why don't you go and take some more drugs, you druggie?

For me he is the last Arab ruler, and Syria is the last Arab country. It is the fortress of the remaining dignity of the Arabs, and that's why I'm proud to be here.

As for Gordon Brown - I've described him and Blair as two cheeks of the same arse.

Only a fool has no regrets and I'm not a fool.

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Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

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I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

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Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

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