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Slightly edited version of an article originally published
under the title "London Is About to Elect a Muslim Mayor Who Has
Defended Islamists, 9/11 Terrorists, and Who Is Endorsed by
Anti-Semites."
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Sadiq
Khan narrowly won London's mayoral election on Thursday.
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Londoners went to the polls on Thursday to choose a replacement for
the outgoing mayor, Boris Johnson MP. Despite the fact the Labour Party
is currently mired in an anti-Semitism
scandal, the victory of its candidate, Sadiq Khan MP, was confirmed
on Friday.
Mr. Khan, 45, has had a successful career in the Labour Party, being elected
to parliament in 2005 and becoming a minister of state in 2008, with a
promotion in 2009. He was a shadow secretary of state for justice from
2010-15 and has been running for London Mayor since then.
...
A Muslim
Mayor?
Polling suggests some people are nervous about having someone like Mr.
Khan near an office that wields so much power, responsibility, and cash.
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The
crimes of former Tower Hamlets Mayor Lutfur Rahman and others have left
many voters distrustful of Muslim politicians.
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Private conversations with Westminster insiders often see Lutfur
Rahman – the former mayor of Tower Hamlets – raised as another example of
a prominent Muslim mayor. Mr. Rahman was removed from office amid
accusations of playing sectarian politics with the area's Muslim
population, backing Islamists, and distributing tax payer cash to his
favoured Muslim groups to secure their support.
Mr. Rahman was found guilty of "corrupt and illegal
practices" – and has perhaps set back the plight of the few
integrated British Muslims in elected life. He – alongside politicians
like Humza
Yousaf, Sayeeda Warsi, Rushanara Ali, Shabana Mahmood, Yasmin
Qureshi, Amjad Bashir, Naz
Shah, and Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh – have created a deep
distrust between British voters and Muslim politicians.
In fact, one
third of Londoners remain suspicious of having a Muslim mayor, and
the likes of Sajid Javid or Syed Kamall suffer because of their
coreligionists' insistence on fellow-travelling with extremists, if not
holding extremist views themselves.
Extremism
And Mr. Khan can hardly claim a clean record. Mr. Goldsmith's attacks
are not without basis, though they have been shrugged off as
"racism" or "Islamophobia" with the assistance of the
left's useful idiots, like Owen Jones.
Mr. Khan is now one of the most
powerful Muslims in the Western world.
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Apart from his somewhat
threatening statements about not voting for him while claiming
that "he is the West," Mr. Khan's own track record is perhaps
one of the most sour of all Muslim politicians in the Western world.
In 2001 he was the lawyer for the Nation of Islam in its successful High
Court bid to overturn the 15-year-ban on its leader, Louis Farrakhan.
In 2005 and 2006 he visited
terror-charged Babar Ahmad in Woodhill Prison. Mr. Ahmed was
extradited to the U.S. in 2012, serving time in prison before being
returned to the UK in 2015. Mr. Ahmed pleaded guilty to the terrorist
offences of conspiracy and providing material support to the Taliban.
And Mr. Khan also campaigned for the release and repatriation of
Shaker Aamer, Britain's last Guantanamo detainee, who was returned to the
UK in November.
Both Messrs Aamer and Ahmed provided Mr. Khan with links to the
advocacy group CAGE, which described the Islamic State executioner
Mohammed Emwazi as a "beautiful young man" and which has
campaigned on behalf of both men. Mr. Khan is reported to have shared a stage with five Islamic extremists,
including at sex-segregated events. Even so, his poll numbers remained
firm until election day.
The ConservativeHome website lists even more concerns, including:
- A letter to the Guardian in the wake of the
7/7 terrorist bombings on London, blaming terrorism on British
government policy;
- His legal defence of Zacarias Moussaoui, a 9/11 terrorist
who confessed to being a member of Al Qaeda;
- His chapter in a book, entitled "Actions
Against the Police," which advises on how to bring charges
against the police for "racism." This is the same police
force that Mr. Khan as London mayor would exercise authority over;
- His defence of
Islamist extremist Azzam Tamimi. When Dr. Tamimi told a crowd that
the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammed would
"cause the world to tremble" and predicted "Fire...
throughout the world if they don't stop," Mr. Khan, who shared
a platform with him, dismissed the threats as "flowery
language."
- His
platform-sharing with Suliman Gani, a south London imam who has
urged female subservience to men and called for the founding of an
Islamic state.
Londoners got news on Friday that their mayor for the next four years
is a man with the judgement, priorities, and fellow travellers as laid
out above. This, combined with an annual £16bn budget and an army of
police, bureaucrats, and officials, would make Mr. Khan one of the most
powerful Muslims in the Western world.
Raheem Kassam is a
Shillman-Ginsburg fellow at the Middle East Forum and editor-in-chief of
Breitbart London.
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