George Galloway, left-wing British MP & international peace campaigner, was here in Auckland July last to speak against Islamophobia at meetings organised by RAM, the Residents Action Movement. A prime catalyst for the Voices of Peace meetings was the Mosques & Miracles tour organised in New Zealand around the same time to spread the message of Islamophobia. The Mosques & Miracles tour has been inspired by the 400-page book of the same name written by Australian right-wing Baptist pastor Stuart Robinson. Galloway defines Islamophobia as "racism against Muslims". This new racism, says the British MP, is an inevitable flow-on from the deliberately misnamed War on Terror begun by Washington to monopolise oil fields in the Muslim Middle East as part of the US state's strategy to remain the world's dominant power. As a prominent anti-war politician, George Galloway was targeted by a US 'black propaganda' campaign in an attempt to blacken his reputation as a grassroots advocate....