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==Attack on Alex Salmond==
 
==Attack on Alex Salmond==
His attack on Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond after the latter's nuanced response to the terrorist attack on Glasgow Airport has brought forth accusations of Islamophobia.<ref>Eddie Barnes, [Salmond response to airport attack 'boost for radical Islam' says academic], Scotland on Sunday, 22 July, 2007, accessed 20 April 2009</ref>
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Gallagher was accused of Islamophobia for his sweeping attack on Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond after the latter's nuanced response to the terrorist attack on Glasgow Airport. Gallagher also accused Salmond of pandering to 'minorities' -- 'as Scotland's answer to Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt or the Irish leader Michael Collins'.<ref>Eddie Barnes, [http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/terrorismintheuk/Salmond-response-to-airport-attack.3308998.jp Salmond response to airport attack 'boost for radical Islam' says academic], Scotland on Sunday, 22 July, 2007</ref>
 
 
In the same attack Gallagher also accused Salmond of pandering to 'minorities' -- 'as Scotland's answer to Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt or the Irish leader Michael Collins'.<ref>Eddie Barnes, [http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1142652007 Salmond response to airport attack 'boost for radical Islam' says academic], Scotland on Sunday, 22 July, 2007, accessed 20 April 2009</ref>
 
  
 
==Publications==
 
==Publications==

Revision as of 21:03, 5 August 2009

Tom Gallagher is the chair of East European Studies in the Department of Peace Studies at Bradford University and a research fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington DC.[1] In his capacity as a terrorologist and a 'leading Scots academic on religious affairs'[2] he has repeatedly condemned the Scottish Government for its alleged role in being 'soft' on radical Islam.

Attack on Alex Salmond

Gallagher was accused of Islamophobia for his sweeping attack on Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond after the latter's nuanced response to the terrorist attack on Glasgow Airport. Gallagher also accused Salmond of pandering to 'minorities' -- 'as Scotland's answer to Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt or the Irish leader Michael Collins'.[3]

Publications

His two most recent books are The Balkans in the New Millennium (Routledge, 2005) and The Balkans After the Cold War: From Tyranny to Tragedy (Routledge, paperback edition, 2005). His Theft of a Nation: Romania since Communism (Hurst & Co, 2005) is published in the United States as Modern Romania.[4]

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Articles by Tom Gallagher

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Notes

  1. Tom Gallagher Reckless Alex must be stopped The Sunday Times (London), April 13, 2008 FEATURES; Scotland News; Pg. 19
  2. Richard Elias Terror chiefs recruit more Scots spies, Scotland on Sunday April 13, 2008
  3. Eddie Barnes, Salmond response to airport attack 'boost for radical Islam' says academic, Scotland on Sunday, 22 July, 2007
  4. Open Democracy Tom Gallagher, accessed 23 March 2009