This is a guest post by Oliver Williams
Tower Hamlets’ disgraced former mayor has no shortage of far-left support. To the mayor’s apologists, to accuse any Muslim of corruption, no matter the evidence, is racist. George Galloway has been among the most vocal, describing the case against the corrupt former- Mayor Lutfur Rahman as a “witch-hunt” and “an anti-democratic, anti-Islamic and racist coup”.
Meanwhile, in light of his overwhelming electoral defeat by Labour’s Naz Shah – a Muslim woman of Pakistani origin – he has tweeted:
“We’ve begun legal proceedings seeking to have result of the Bradford West election set aside.”
According to Galloway, there has been “widespread malpractice”, particularly involving postal votes.
Galloway has accused Shah of exactly what Lutfur Rahman was found guilty of, yet in Naz Shah’s case, unlike Rahman’s, the evidence is so far non-existent.
Rahman’s ‘pro-democracy’ supporters – the Guardian’s Richard Seymour, Unite’s Len McClusky, Stop The War Coalition’s Andrew Murray – have, as of yet, declined to brand Galloway an Islamophobe.
