Hitchens Clashes with Galloway on the Cause of Terrorism

Christopher Hitchens argues with George Galloway on the origins of Islamic fundamentalism.

Sept. 23, 2005

[calebh]

George Galloway was so close to laughing at that mother in-law joke

[TheIkaraCult]

I'll still never get over the fact that Maher said he thought Milo Yiannoncolous reminded him of a young Hitchens.... some people completely lose all sense of perspective as soon as they hear a posh boy speak.

[JonReing]

It’s like we are all having the same conversation over again

[xtsylviacary]

Mr. Hitchens is more needed nowadays than ever. RIP.

[kpl]

"With every 72 virgins, they also get 72 mothers in law"
Hitchens was fckng hilarious 😂😂😂

[jamesmkoenig]

I miss the days when real time had more than 2 guests at the table

[ruthbashford]

George doesn't find the mother-in-law joke funny!

[sudo_nym]

Back when we had fascinating adversaries

[weareallanimals]

I love Hitchens' smiling "I'm gonna rip your lungs out" look at the audience at 3:50

[joansnow]

Weird how this was chosen since I just watched the 2000’s on CNN

[bryanbelshaw]

Hitchens also conveniently focused on Iraq when it was very well known that most of the so called hijackers where from Saudi Arabia. Not a word said.

[jdagni]

Hitchens seems to be criticizing what he perceives to be Galloway’s hypocrisy more than his actual statements. Not his best day. Galloway is presenting a more useful, cogent argument. PS Maher is the worst😂

[sco]

Ultimately Hitchens was a little short-sighted at the beginning with the "I think Bin Laden was one of a kind" comments, if he'd lived to see ISIS maybe he would've changed his opinion.

[d-thec-tieve]

I'm Iranian and let me tell you this:
Even though I agree with something Galloway says This guy is on everysingle State run media. He was on press Tv and I just saw him on RT(Russia owned station in English)

[jeffallcock]

Here I think history has proven Hitchens wrong. Nothing lasting or worth the cost was achieved in Afghanistan. It is, or soon will be, pretty much the same as it was before the US invasion, among other things, a graveyard of empires.

[chrisdec]

Can you upload the whole thing please?

[bartattack]

Back when you could still have a real debate about what’s going on

[joecurran]

5:45 I didn't realise George Galloway of all people had said that first.

[MrZedhow]

Hitchens was riddled with contradictions and I’m afraid Galloway toasted him on this issue. Gore Vidal came to a similar conclusion with Hitchens, he was blinded by his own ascetic hatred of Islam to the point he backed an illegal war. He was a smart, but the smart-arse got in his own way.

[johnruggiero]

It’s a shame a lot of Christopher’s arguments were timely, and thus not as useful today. Then again, he has arguments that are Timeless. He was the rarest of birds. He’s missed!