[h=1]The bus driver's son who became London's first Muslim mayor: How ex-human rights lawyer Sadiq Khan has been dogged by links to extremists - but claims he's a moderate who loves manicures and wooed his wife with a Filet-O-Fish in McDonald's[/h]
- Sadiq Khan is the son of a Pakistani immigrant from Tooting, south London
- Labour MP pledged to tackle terrorism and will put London on 'war-footing'
- Had death threats aimed at him and his family after backing gay marriage
- But he also shared platforms with extremists and used 'Uncle Tom' slur
- Mayor stood with Sulaiman Ghani 9 times even though cleric supports ISIS
Ryan passed an omnibus spending bill which included a massive increase in the number of low-skilled
foreign workers to fill U.S. jobs. Ryan’s omnibus spending bill also funded visas for nearly 300,000
Muslim migrants for this year alone.
When the Empire broke up Britain became generous in allowing members of the Commonwealth
to immigrate. If guys like Paul Ryan have there way 30 years down the road no doubt the US
will face Muslim mayors, senators or even worse presiding over large segment of this land!
Very encouraging that a big city like London can repudiate hate, racism, and Islamaphobia and elect this seeming reasonable man. It's sometimes hard to realize that most Brits are not sick, hateful Islamaphobes, when the only representative here encompasses all those sick, hateful qualities that Super Sick Brit Twit Beets embraces. Bravo London!!!!
Hopefully America can find the courage and wisdom to also repudiate the hate when electing our POTUS.
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Victory for Sadiq Khan highlights tolerant face of London
Conor Sullivan and Jim Pickard
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London elected a Muslim mayor on Friday, in a remarkable triumph over the racial and religious tensions that have bedevilled other European capitals.
Khan takes London poll victory
Labour MP sweeps to victory after defeating Tory Zac Goldsmith to end eight years of Conservative rule over the city
The historic moment — Sadiq Khan is the first directly elected Muslim mayor of an important western city — is being scrutinised around the world, particularly in European countries struggling to integrate Muslim communities.
Mr de Blasio tweeted: “Sending congratulations to London’s new Mayor and fellow affordable housing advocate, @SadiqKhan. Look forward to working together!”
Ms Hidalgo wrote: “Congratulations to @SadiqKhan, elected Mayor of London! Convinced that his humanism & his progressivism will benefit the Londoners!”
The son of a Pakistani bus driver and his seamstress wife, Mr Khan was one of eight children raised in public housing in south London. His Conservative rival, Zac Goldsmith, is an Eton-educated billionaire’s son who seemed drawn from the English ruling class of a previous era.
Mr Khan, a fast-talking affable politician with a facility for straddling ideological divides, takes the reins of a capital city where roughly one in eight residents identify as Muslims.
However notable his rise, Mr Khan’s new power will be far more modest than those of municipal leaders elsewhere. In the US, mayors in cities such as New York and Chicago command multibillion-dollar budgets and small armies of municipal workers.
By contrast, the London mayor, elected by voters only since 2000, has limited powers over police, transport and housing.
Throughout the recent campaign, Mr Khan made no secret of his Muslim faith. He does not drink and when he was joining the Privy Council, an honorary body which advises the Queen, he asked to be sworn in using a copy of the Koran rather than a Bible.
“Hey @ZacGoldsmith. There’s no need to keep pointing at me & shouting ‘he’s a Muslim’. I put it on my own leaflets,” he tweeted at his Conservative rival.
But he has also spoken of having multiple identities that coexist. “I am a Londoner, I am European, I am British, I am English, I am of Islamic faith, of Asian origin, of Pakistani heritage, a dad, a husband,” he said on the campaign trail.
I am a Londoner, I am European, I am British, I am English, I am of Islamic faith, of Asian origin, of Pakistani heritage, a dad, a husband- Sadiq Khan
“We do not just tolerate each other in London; we respect each other,” he has also said.
Mr Khan sought to negate criticism that he had shown poor judgment by appearing in public with people who had expressed extremist views by saying he would be “the British Muslim who will take the fight to the extremists”.
Attempts to stop British children being radicalised was “not working”, he added, and he hoped he would have a better understanding of how to combat radicalisation because he was a moderate Muslim who knew the community from the inside.
He said he had received abuse and death threats from conservative and extremist Muslims after he voted in favour of gay marriage in parliament.
Even after being accused of employing Islamophobic tactics, Mr Goldsmith repeatedly pointed to occasions when Mr Khan had “shared a platform” with extremists, which he claimed gave them legitimacy.
Mr Khan and the Labour party dismissed this as a racist tactic designed to appeal to voters who harboured anti-Muslim prejudice.
The attempts appeared to backfire. Mr Khan’s lead in the polls apparently grew as the attacks intensified. A newspaper article written by Mr Goldsmith carried a picture of the mangled wreckage of a London bus blown up by Islamist terrorists in 2005.
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Sunder Katwala, director of the British Future think-tank, which studies the integration of ethnic minorities, said the Tory candidate’s tactic had been “especially unlikely to have worked in London without strong evidence that the claims of extremist links were valid”.
He added: “Compared with Europe, in London you see more confidence about the integration of ethnic minorities, in politics, civic society and business. On the left and the right you see a growing number of ethnic minority politicians. In European cities you don’t tend to see it on the right.”
In the next decade Mr Katwala expected one of the main parties to elect a non-white leader.
Less than an hour after the polls closed, Andrew Boff, a prominent Conservative in London local government, said on television that Mr Goldsmith’s campaign “was effectively saying that people of conservative religious views are not to be trusted and you shouldn’t share a platform with them”.
Mr Boff said that view was “outrageous” and the campaign had “done real damage” and had “blown up” bridges the Conservative party had built with London’s Muslim communities.
Mr Khan recently observed that he was not the first Muslim to achieve high office in the UK, pointing to Sajid Javid, the Tory business secretary. “Typical. You wait for ages for a Pakistani bus driver’s son to come along, then two come along at once,” he joked.
Typical. You wait for ages for a Pakistani bus driver’s son to come along, then two come along at once- Sadiq Khan
Elsewhere in Europe, the Morocco-born mayor of Rotterdam, Ahmed Aboutaleb has become one of most popular politicians in the country — he has been tipped as a possible future prime minister — in a country of rising anti-Muslim sentiment.
Outside a south London mosque after Friday prayers last week, Ben Houari, 38, who moved to London from Belgium to “run away from racism”, said a Muslim would never be elected mayor in his former home. “In Belgium you’ll never ever become mayor if you’re someone with a different culture.”
Lord Hain, a former Labour cabinet minister, said: “In the dominant British city, probably the most important city in the world, to have a Muslim mayor is an important statement.”
Tulip Siddiq, Labour MP for Hampstead and Kilburn — who is also a Muslim — said Mr Khan prayed, fasted and had been on the hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. “But when I look at him, I don’t think of him as ‘Muslim man’. I think Labour, Londoner, south London, ambitious,” she said.
“I think he is a good role model for lots of reasons. He is ethnic minority, didn’t go to Oxbridge, grew up in a council house, has working-class roots.”
Across Britain many councillors are Muslim — typically in the Labour party — and 13 MPs in the 650-seat House of Commons are Muslim, up from eight in the previous parliament.
The Commons figure — 2 per cent of the whole — is less than the proportion of Muslims in the UK, which is 4 per cent, or about 3m.
Hopefully America can find the courage and wisdom to also repudiate the hate when electing our POTUS.
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Victory for Sadiq Khan highlights tolerant face of London
Conor Sullivan and Jim Pickard
London elected a Muslim mayor on Friday, in a remarkable triumph over the racial and religious tensions that have bedevilled other European capitals.
Khan takes London poll victory
The historic moment — Sadiq Khan is the first directly elected Muslim mayor of an important western city — is being scrutinised around the world, particularly in European countries struggling to integrate Muslim communities.
Mr de Blasio tweeted: “Sending congratulations to London’s new Mayor and fellow affordable housing advocate, @SadiqKhan. Look forward to working together!”
Ms Hidalgo wrote: “Congratulations to @SadiqKhan, elected Mayor of London! Convinced that his humanism & his progressivism will benefit the Londoners!”
The son of a Pakistani bus driver and his seamstress wife, Mr Khan was one of eight children raised in public housing in south London. His Conservative rival, Zac Goldsmith, is an Eton-educated billionaire’s son who seemed drawn from the English ruling class of a previous era.
Mr Khan, a fast-talking affable politician with a facility for straddling ideological divides, takes the reins of a capital city where roughly one in eight residents identify as Muslims.
However notable his rise, Mr Khan’s new power will be far more modest than those of municipal leaders elsewhere. In the US, mayors in cities such as New York and Chicago command multibillion-dollar budgets and small armies of municipal workers.
By contrast, the London mayor, elected by voters only since 2000, has limited powers over police, transport and housing.
Throughout the recent campaign, Mr Khan made no secret of his Muslim faith. He does not drink and when he was joining the Privy Council, an honorary body which advises the Queen, he asked to be sworn in using a copy of the Koran rather than a Bible.
“Hey @ZacGoldsmith. There’s no need to keep pointing at me & shouting ‘he’s a Muslim’. I put it on my own leaflets,” he tweeted at his Conservative rival.
But he has also spoken of having multiple identities that coexist. “I am a Londoner, I am European, I am British, I am English, I am of Islamic faith, of Asian origin, of Pakistani heritage, a dad, a husband,” he said on the campaign trail.
I am a Londoner, I am European, I am British, I am English, I am of Islamic faith, of Asian origin, of Pakistani heritage, a dad, a husband- Sadiq Khan
“We do not just tolerate each other in London; we respect each other,” he has also said.
Mr Khan sought to negate criticism that he had shown poor judgment by appearing in public with people who had expressed extremist views by saying he would be “the British Muslim who will take the fight to the extremists”.
Attempts to stop British children being radicalised was “not working”, he added, and he hoped he would have a better understanding of how to combat radicalisation because he was a moderate Muslim who knew the community from the inside.
He said he had received abuse and death threats from conservative and extremist Muslims after he voted in favour of gay marriage in parliament.
Even after being accused of employing Islamophobic tactics, Mr Goldsmith repeatedly pointed to occasions when Mr Khan had “shared a platform” with extremists, which he claimed gave them legitimacy.
Mr Khan and the Labour party dismissed this as a racist tactic designed to appeal to voters who harboured anti-Muslim prejudice.
The attempts appeared to backfire. Mr Khan’s lead in the polls apparently grew as the attacks intensified. A newspaper article written by Mr Goldsmith carried a picture of the mangled wreckage of a London bus blown up by Islamist terrorists in 2005.
Instant Insight
Sunder Katwala, director of the British Future think-tank, which studies the integration of ethnic minorities, said the Tory candidate’s tactic had been “especially unlikely to have worked in London without strong evidence that the claims of extremist links were valid”.
He added: “Compared with Europe, in London you see more confidence about the integration of ethnic minorities, in politics, civic society and business. On the left and the right you see a growing number of ethnic minority politicians. In European cities you don’t tend to see it on the right.”
In the next decade Mr Katwala expected one of the main parties to elect a non-white leader.
Less than an hour after the polls closed, Andrew Boff, a prominent Conservative in London local government, said on television that Mr Goldsmith’s campaign “was effectively saying that people of conservative religious views are not to be trusted and you shouldn’t share a platform with them”.
Mr Boff said that view was “outrageous” and the campaign had “done real damage” and had “blown up” bridges the Conservative party had built with London’s Muslim communities.
Mr Khan recently observed that he was not the first Muslim to achieve high office in the UK, pointing to Sajid Javid, the Tory business secretary. “Typical. You wait for ages for a Pakistani bus driver’s son to come along, then two come along at once,” he joked.
Typical. You wait for ages for a Pakistani bus driver’s son to come along, then two come along at once- Sadiq Khan
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Elsewhere in Europe, the Morocco-born mayor of Rotterdam, Ahmed Aboutaleb has become one of most popular politicians in the country — he has been tipped as a possible future prime minister — in a country of rising anti-Muslim sentiment.
Outside a south London mosque after Friday prayers last week, Ben Houari, 38, who moved to London from Belgium to “run away from racism”, said a Muslim would never be elected mayor in his former home. “In Belgium you’ll never ever become mayor if you’re someone with a different culture.”
Lord Hain, a former Labour cabinet minister, said: “In the dominant British city, probably the most important city in the world, to have a Muslim mayor is an important statement.”
Tulip Siddiq, Labour MP for Hampstead and Kilburn — who is also a Muslim — said Mr Khan prayed, fasted and had been on the hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. “But when I look at him, I don’t think of him as ‘Muslim man’. I think Labour, Londoner, south London, ambitious,” she said.
“I think he is a good role model for lots of reasons. He is ethnic minority, didn’t go to Oxbridge, grew up in a council house, has working-class roots.”
Across Britain many councillors are Muslim — typically in the Labour party — and 13 MPs in the 650-seat House of Commons are Muslim, up from eight in the previous parliament.
The Commons figure — 2 per cent of the whole — is less than the proportion of Muslims in the UK, which is 4 per cent, or about 3m.
House of Commons
[h=2]The Prime Minister[/h] but there is a pattern of behaviour with the right hon. Member for Tooting (Sadiq Khan). He shared a platform with Sajil Shahid, the man who trained the ringleader of the 7/7 attacks and accused the United States of bringing 9/11 on itself. He shared a platform with an extremist who called for Jews to be drowned in the ocean. When this was put to the right hon. Member for Tooting, he described it as mere “flowery” language. If he wants to know why he has a problem with anti-Semitism, let me tell him: it is because his candidates share platform after platform with extremists and anti-Semites and then excuse their words. One more time: say you withdraw the remark about Hamas and Hezbollah being your friends!
But I am not going to let the issue about the right hon. Member for Tooting rest. The Leader of the Opposition raised the case of Suleiman Ghani, whom the right hon. Member for Tooting shared a platform with nine times. This is a man who says that it is wrong to stop people going to fight in—[Interruption.] No, as long as it takes. Do you want to know the views of a person that your leader has just quoted? He has described women as—[Interruption.] The hon. Member for Islington South and Finsbury (Emily Thornberry) might be interested in this. He described women as “subservient” to men. He said that homosexuality was an “unnatural” act. He stood on a platform with people who wanted an Islamic state. That is why the Leader of the Opposition’s attempts to deal with anti-Semitism are utterly condemned to failure. He will not even condemn people who sit on platforms with people like that.
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[h=2]The Prime Minister[/h] but there is a pattern of behaviour with the right hon. Member for Tooting (Sadiq Khan). He shared a platform with Sajil Shahid, the man who trained the ringleader of the 7/7 attacks and accused the United States of bringing 9/11 on itself. He shared a platform with an extremist who called for Jews to be drowned in the ocean. When this was put to the right hon. Member for Tooting, he described it as mere “flowery” language. If he wants to know why he has a problem with anti-Semitism, let me tell him: it is because his candidates share platform after platform with extremists and anti-Semites and then excuse their words. One more time: say you withdraw the remark about Hamas and Hezbollah being your friends!
But I am not going to let the issue about the right hon. Member for Tooting rest. The Leader of the Opposition raised the case of Suleiman Ghani, whom the right hon. Member for Tooting shared a platform with nine times. This is a man who says that it is wrong to stop people going to fight in—[Interruption.] No, as long as it takes. Do you want to know the views of a person that your leader has just quoted? He has described women as—[Interruption.] The hon. Member for Islington South and Finsbury (Emily Thornberry) might be interested in this. He described women as “subservient” to men. He said that homosexuality was an “unnatural” act. He stood on a platform with people who wanted an Islamic state. That is why the Leader of the Opposition’s attempts to deal with anti-Semitism are utterly condemned to failure. He will not even condemn people who sit on platforms with people like that.
Jim Edwards writing at Business Insider:
Sadiq Khan’s victory in the London mayoral election puts him — in theory — just two or three election cycles away from being Britain’s first non-white, Muslim prime minister. His ability to win potentially makes him Britain’s Obama.
I’m glade someone else sees the light.
Sadiq Khan issues grovelling apology after video shows him using 'Uncle Toms' slur against moderate Muslims
MP made the apology in an interview, insisting he regrets the words he used
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Sadiq Khan was branded unfit to be London Mayor after it emerged that he had described moderate Muslim groups as 'Uncle Toms' – a notorious racial slur used against black people to suggest that they are subservient to whites
MP made the apology in an interview, insisting he regrets the words he used
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So at least half of London's non-Islamic voting populatio approves of this guy. Good Deal.
Meanwhile, Rueful Irony that the country who spent centuries using their military might to both exterminate and to enslave brown and black skinned native populations throughout the Eastern Hemisphere now has a brownish white guy running point in their capitol city
Meanwhile, Rueful Irony that the country who spent centuries using their military might to both exterminate and to enslave brown and black skinned native populations throughout the Eastern Hemisphere now has a brownish white guy running point in their capitol city
[h=1]London’s Iconic Red Buses To Declare ‘Glory To Allah’[/h]
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by RAHEEM KASSAM AND OLIVER LANE8 May 20169,958
[h=2]Britain’s largest Islamic charity says it wants to “break down barriers” and portray Islam positively by launching a new advertising campaign which will slap the phrase “glory to Allah” on the side of London buses.[/h]The new campaign by Islamic Relief is, ostensibly, targeted at raising donations for their Ramadan aid to Syria, but is attracting attention for the “hundreds” of buses which will be decorated with the phrase “Subhan’Allah”, or ‘Glory to Allah’.
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[h=2]Britain’s largest Islamic charity says it wants to “break down barriers” and portray Islam positively by launching a new advertising campaign which will slap the phrase “glory to Allah” on the side of London buses.[/h]The new campaign by Islamic Relief is, ostensibly, targeted at raising donations for their Ramadan aid to Syria, but is attracting attention for the “hundreds” of buses which will be decorated with the phrase “Subhan’Allah”, or ‘Glory to Allah’.
