George Galloway's Respect coalition has come into further criticism after this weekends meeting at the Leeds Islamic Centre. Although attendance at the meeting was high it was spoiled by Respect stewards insisting that muslim men and women sit on opposite sides of the room.
The respect website describes the meeting as a "wonderful event" -obviously E for equality in Respects title does not extend to muslim women.
This comes after last months public meeting where leading Respect candidates announced they would vote in favour of anti-abortion laws in the Euro-Parliment and would refuse to support legislation forcibly extending womens rights to the accession countries of europe.
In Birmingham Respect is embroiled in a further row after a homophobic leaflet was jointly published by Respect and BJP. The leaflet -which was hastily "withdrawn" after only a few hundred copies had been distributed- criticised Lib Dem councillors for voting to spend money on gay rights issues. Embarassingly Galloway was pictured shaking hands with the anti-gay authors of the leaflet.
This comes after last months public meeting where leading Respect candidates announced they would vote in favour of anti-abortion laws in the Euro-Parliment and would refuse to support legislation forcibly extending womens rights to the accession countries of europe.
In Birmingham Respect is embroiled in a further row after a homophobic leaflet was jointly published by Respect and BJP. The leaflet -which was hastily "withdrawn" after only a few hundred copies had been distributed- criticised Lib Dem councillors for voting to spend money on gay rights issues. Embarassingly Galloway was pictured shaking hands with the anti-gay authors of the leaflet.
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