Unparliamentary language

Blogger Israel Matzav has picked up an address delivered by George Galloway MP in Amman, Jordan which was shown on al Jazeera on May 15. In it, Galloway expresses admiration of Saddam Hussein and Gamal Abd al Nasser, refers to George Bush and Tony Blair as ‘dogs’ and accuses Blair of dripping with the blood of the people of Iraq, Palestine and Lebanon. However, that was just the warm-up. The more notable passage is this:

All my life I believed that Palestine could be liberated by the Kalashnikov and the armed struggle alone. This was a mistake. We need the Kalashnikov. We need the armed struggle. This is the hammer. But we need also an anvil. The hammer is necessary to defend yourself, to strike your enemy. You must never let it down, never let it fall from your hand. But it cannot make something alone. What is needed is an anvil, and that anvil has to be mass movements of the population, of the people. The most inspiring event, of the last – we can say – 40 years, since Karameh, was when the people of Gaza, with their bare hands, in their thousands tore down the walls of their prison, and poured out of the siege into Egypt.

Now I’m no lawyer, but this seems to me pretty damn near incitement to murder, not to mention glorification of terrorism. Helloo, PC Metropolitan Counter-Terrorist Plod! Wake up in the back there!! And even if our sensitive police/crown prosecutors won’t proceed against the Mosley of Mesopotamia, how can a man who incites mass murder be an MP? Shouldn’t the Speaker throw him out of the House of Commons? Doesn’t his presence there bring Parliament into gross disrepute? Why are MPs ignoring this? What does this tell us about a country that is supposed to be defending the values of civilisation against their attackers?