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- THE SECRET LIFE OF SADIQ KHAN, LONDON’S FIRST MLIM MAYORJUMPING THE SHARQY, SADIQ KHAN SUCKED UP TO EXTREMIST MLIMS THE PAST, BUT, STILL, NGRATULATNS ARE ORR FOR HIM—AND THE VOTERS.MAAJID NAWAZUPDATED APR. 13, 2017 3:55PM EDT / PUBLISHED MAY 08, 2016 12:00AM EDT YUI MOK/AFP/GETTY IMAGLONDON — IT’S A PIECE OF HISTORY. LONDON HAS GAED HER FIRST MLIM MAYOR, A FELLOW PAKISTANI-BR. AND THOUGH BEG MLIM BEARS ABSOLUTELY NO RELEVANCE TO HOW SADIQ KHAN TENDS TO N LONDON—FOR ISLAM IS AS AMBIVALENT ON THE DIFFICULTI OF LONDON’S HOG CRISIS AS IS ON THE HUMAN GENE SEQUENCE—HIS RELIGN HAS BEE RELEVANT.IN SUCCSFULLY TEGRATG THEIR MLIM RINTS, LONDON, THE UNED KGDOM, EUROPE, AND THE WIR WT HAVE BEEN GOG THROUGH SOMETHG OF AN INTY CRISIS.ISLAMIST MLIMS WHO SIST THAT HUMANY N ONLY BE JUDGED BY HOW MLIM IS, AND ANTI-MLIM BIGOTS WHO SIST THAT HUMANY N ONLY BE JUDGED BY HOW MLIM ISN’T, HAVE MA ISLAM RELEVANT. THE REGRSIVE LEFT SADIQ KHAN’S LABOUR PARTY, AND THE POPULIST RIGHT AMONG TMP’S REPUBLINS HAVE MA ISLAM A HOT TOPIC. THE ONLY WAY ISLAM WILL CEASE BEG AN ISSUE IS WHEN EVERYONE, MLIM OR NOT, IS EMED TO SHARE THE SAME RIGHTS, AND IS HELD TO THE VERY SAME LIBERAL EXPECTATNS. UNTIL THEN, DISCRIMATN WILL NTUE TO FEED THE POISONO TRIBALISM FUELG MORN INTY POLICS. THIS APPLI WHETHER THAT DISCRIMATN THE FORM OF RIGHT-WG ANTI-MLIM BIGOTRY, OR THE FORM OF THE LEFT-WG BIGOTRY OF LOW EXPECTATNS THAT HOLDS MLIMS TO LSER, ILLIBERAL STANDARDS. UNTIL THE TW BIGOTRI ARE ALT WH, SADIQ KHAN’S RELIG AFFILIATN WILL, SADLY, REMA A TOPIC OF BATE.IN THIS WAY, THE VICTORY OF LONDON’S NEW MAYOR AS A NON-ISLAMIST MLIM IS AS MUCH A BLOW TO ISLAMIST BIGOTS AS IS TO ANTI-MLIM BIGOTS. THIS VICTORY SPEAKS TO THE POSSIBILI OF TEGRATN. IT OFFERS HOPE FOR OUR UNTRY’S NEW IMMIGRANT FAI. AND AS A SYMBOL OF SOCIAL MOBILY, PROVIS ASPIRATN TO THOSE OM HUMBLE BACKGROUNDS.SADIQ KHAN’S VICTORY IS PROBABLY THE ONLY B OF GOOD NEWS JEREMY CORBYN’S FAR-LEFT-LED LABOUR PARTY N TLY CELEBRATE THIS WEEKEND. AND CELEBRATE THEY SHOULD. DEMOCRACY HAS SPOKEN. WH , A TORN CY MIGHT BE ABLE TO BEG HEALG THE OLD WOUNDS OF INTY AND RELIGN RE-OPENED BY THE MUDDY MPAIGN TO GET KHAN ELECTED, AND THE MUDDY MPAIGN THAT OPPOSED HIM.THE MUDDY MPAIGNS WERE FACT A MICROSM OF THE INTY PROBLEMS PLAGUG MORN EUROPE. IS LONDON’S NEW MAYOR AN ISLAMIST? THIS QUTN DROVE A POLIL PENDULUM SWG TO BOTH EXTREM AT THE EXPENSE OF A GENUE NVERSATN THAT REALLY NEEDS TO BE HAD.I’VE KNOWN SADIQ KHAN SCE 2002 WHEN HE WAS MY LAWYER WHILE I SERVED AS AN ISLAMIST POLIL PRISONER EGYPT, BEFORE HE BEME A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT. I’M FOREVER BTED TO HIM FOR VISG ME MAZRA TORA PRISON, WHILE THE WORLD GAVE UP ON ME.DUE TO THIS HISTORY, MANY THE PRS ASKED ME FOR MY VIEW ON THE VERACY OF THE “ISLAMIST” ALLEGATNS SURROUNDG THE NEW MAYOR, BUT I REFED TO MAKE MY VIEWS KNOWN UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTNS. Y, THIS NVERSATN NEED TO BE HAD, BUT I PREFERRED TO HAVE ONLY WHEN THE TRIBALISMS OF LEFT AND RIGHT, OF MLIM AND NON-MLIM, WERE LEFT FIRMLY AT THE DOOR. ELECTN SEASON MA THAT ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE. SADIQ KHAN IS NO MLIM EXTREMIST. AND IS NOT ONLY HIS TRACK RERD VOTG FOR GAY RIGHTS THAT PROV THIS. HAVG KNOWN HIM WHEN I WAS A MLIM EXTREMIST, I KNOW THAT HE DID NOT SUBSCRIBE TO MY THEN-THEOCRATIC VIEWS.MANY NSERVATIV WHO SPERATELY OPPOSED KHAN JUMPED THE SHARK WHEN THEY LLED HIM A “RADIL ISLAMIST,” AND LKED HIM TO SENSATNALIST HEADL THAT CLARED HE HAD A “HARDRE ISLAMIST PAST.” NUANCE IS THE IEND OF TTH.ON THE OTHER HAND MANY MLIMS, AND THOSE ON THE LEFT, PREFERRED TO BURY THEIR HEADS THE SAND, CHASTISG ANYONE WHO DARED TO CHALLENGE KHAN ON HIS PAST ISLAMIST RELATNSHIPS, AS “RACISTS.” SEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL AND SPEAK NO EVIL. THE REGRSIVE LEFT’S OVESE OF THE WORD RACISM ON SUCH MATTERS IS AS UNHELPFUL AS THE POPULIST RIGHT’S OVESE OF THE WORD “EXTREMIST.”IT IS AS RACIST TO ASK THE QUTNS, AND TO HAVE THIS NVERSATN, AS WAS WHEN LONDONERS QUTNED THE WHE, NON-MLIM FORMER LABOUR MAYOR OF LONDON, KEN LIVGSTONE, ABOUT HIS LKS TO ISLAMISTS, OR WHEN THE PRS QUTN THE WHE, NON-MLIM LABOUR LEAR, JEREMY CORBYN, AND THE MAVERICK WHE POLICIAN GEE GALLOWAY OVER THEIR TI TO EXTREMISTS.IN OTHER WORDS ’S NOT RACIST AT ALL, AS ATMA SGH—LABOUR’S OWN SOUTH-ASIAN AFFAIRS ADVISOR TO A FORMER MAYOR OF LONDON—POTS OUT. TO IMPLY THAT IS, AND TO HOLD SADIQ KHAN TO A LSER STANDARD THAN HIS WHE LLEAGU MERELY BEE HE IS A BROWN MLIM, IS THE VERY BIGOTRY OF LOW EXPECTATNS THAT FUELS INTY POLICS EVEN FURTHER. ALONGSI THE ENVIRONMENT, EXTREMISM IS ONE OF THE MOST PRSG ISSU OF OUR DAY. OF URSE WILL E UP AN ELECTN MPAIGN.AND FERENCE TO THE SERNS OF THE SUBJECT, AND THE LIV LOST OVER , WHAT ME UP ABOUT KHAN’S ALLEGED LKS TO EXTREMISTS IS PERTENT. THOSE QUTNS NEED TO BE ASKED. I NNOT EMPHASIZE ENOUGH THAT I WRE AS A LIBERAL, WHO VOTED FOR A LIBERAL DEMOCRAT THIS RACE, AND NOT AS A NSERVATIVE. SO NOW THAT THE ELECTN IS OVER, AND LONDON HAS S FIRST MLIM MAYOR, LET STEP BACK AND NSIR THE SMOKE TO THIS NSERVATIVE FIRE.THE SEEDS WERE SOWN WH KHAN’S NOW-FORMER -LAWS. DURG LONDON’S ’90S ISLAMIST HEYDAY, KHAN’S BROTHER--LAW MAKBOOL JAVAID WAS AFFILIATED AND LISTED AS A SPOKMAN TO THE NOW-BANNED TERRORIST GROUP AL-MUHAJIROUN, FOUND BY THE HATE PREACHER OMAR BAKRI MUHAMMAD, AND THEN LED BY THE FAMO FANATIC ANJEM CHOUDARY. I KNEW OF MAKBOOL BACK THEN, TOO. HIS BROTHERS WERE LLEAGU OF ME, AFFILIATED TO MY FORMER EXTREMIST ANIZATN, HIZB UT-TAHRIR.THROUGH SUCH NNECTNS KHAN GRATIATED HIMSELF THE LONDON ISLAMIST SCENE. IN 2003, HE APPEARED AT A NFERENCE ALONGSI SAJEEL ABU IBRAHIM, A MEMBER OF THAT SAME BANNED AL-MUHAJIROUN.SAJEEL RAN A MP PAKISTAN THAT TRAED THE 7/7 BOMBER MOHAMMAD SIDIQUE KHAN. SPEAKG THERE, TOO, WAS ONE YASSER AL-SIRI, WHO HAD BEEN NVICTED EGYPT OVER A POLIL ASSASSATN ATTEMPT THAT LEFT A YOUNG GIRL AD.IN 2004, KHAN GAVE EVINCE TO THE HOE OF COMMONS HIS PACY AS THE CHAIR OF THE MLIM COUNCIL OF BRA’S LEGAL AFFAIRS MTEE. THIS IS THE SAME MLIM COUNCIL OF BRA THAT CHOSE TO NDOLE THE RECENT AHMEDI MURR VICTIM GLASGOW, BY CLARG AHMEDIS NOT MLIM.IN HIS MCB PACY, KHAN ARGUED PARLIAMENT THAT THE MLIM BROTHERHOOD CLERIC DR. YUF AL-QARADAWI “IS NOT THE EXTREMIST THAT HE IS PATED AS BEG.”THIS IS QARADAWI WHO, AMONG OTHER THGS, THORED A BOOK LLED THE LAWFUL AND PROHIBED ISLAM, WHICH HE JTIFI WIFE BEATG AND DISCS WHETHER HOMOSEXUALS SHOULD BE KILLED.INFAMOLY, QARADAWI ALSO ISSUED A FATWA ADVOTG SUICI BOMBGS AGAST ISRAELI CIVILIANS, A VIEW WHICH HAS SEEN HIM JO THE LIK OF OMAR BAKRI MUHAMMAD BEG NIED ENTRY TO THE U.K.KHAN’S RELATNSHIPS WH EXTREMISTS RAN SO EP FACT, THAT HE ATTEND EVENTS FOR THE JIHADIST RIGHTS GROUP CAGE, AND WROTE A FOREWORD FOR ONE OF THEIR REPORTS. CAGE HAS SCE CLARED ISIS EXECUTNER ‘JIHADI-JOHN’ TO BE A BETIFUL MAN LIVE ON THE BBC.KHAN’S FENCE OF SUCH A PROLIFIC FLIRTATN WH ISLAMISM IS THAT HE WAS A HUMAN-RIGHTS LAWYER. HOWEVER, MOST OF THE EVENTS WERE NOT ATTEND HIS PACY AS A LAWYER AT ALL. ONE SPECTS HE WAS SIMPLY TRYG TO GA VOT.BY 2010, WH CREASG GRASSROOTS POPULARY AMONG HIGHLY ANIZED ISLAMISTS AND FUNDAMENTALISTS, BUT RRYG THE BURN OF THE LABOUR PARTY’S WAR ON TERROR RERD, KHAN’S BID TO GET RE-ELECTED HIS HOME-BASE OF SOUTH LONDON’S TOOTG WAS FACG CHALLENG OM ANOTHER MLIM. FOR UNLIKE THE LABOUR PARTY, THIS MLIM’S PARTY HAD OPPOSED THE VASN OF IRAQ.KHAN’S RIVAL WAS LIBERAL DEMOCRAT NASSER BUTT. LIBERAL DEMOCRAT OPPOSN TO THE IRAQ WAR POSED A SER CHALLENGE TO KHAN AND HIS MLIM POWER BASE TOOTG. BRISH SOUTH ASIAN MLIMS—MYSELF CLUD—OVERWHELMGLY OPPOSED THAT WAR. “LUCKILY” FOR KHAN, NASSER HAPPENED TO BE AN AHMADI MLIM. Y, THIS IS AS RELEVANT AS SADIQ KHAN BEG A SUNNI MLIM. IN OTHER WORDS NOT AT ALL, A PERFECT WORLD. ALAS, KHAN’S WORLD WAS FAR OM PERFECT. AHMEDIS ARE PERHAPS THE MOST PERSECUTED MORY SECTS AMONG SUNNI MLIMS.KHAN KNEW THIS, AND YET THIS FACT DIDN’T STOP HIS MPAIGN WORKG CLOSELY WH TOOTG MOSQUE TO STIR UP ANTI-AHMEDI SECTARIAN HATRED ORR TO SECURE THE SUNNI VOTE FOR HIS VICTORY. FOR MANY OF MY FELLOW SUNNI MLIMS NASSER BUTT BEG AN AHMEDI WAS A DOCTRAL “OFFENCE” FOR WHICH HE WAS PERSONALLY RPONSIBLE, WHILE KHAN WAS TOO JUNR OF AN MP AT THAT TIME TO HAVE MUCH TO DO WH THE VASN OF IRAQ. BY NOW, KHAN’S RELIG WRG WAS CLEARLY ON THE MOSQUE WALL.AGA, KHAN IS NO MLIM EXTREMIST. INED, THIS NNOT BE REPEATED ENOUGH. NOR N THE FACT THAT KHAN CLEARLY HAS A RERD OF TERRIBLY POOR JUDGMENT SURROUNDG HIMSELF WH ISLAMISTS AND MLIM EXTREMISTS, AND G THEM FOR VOT.FOR A MLIM POLICIAN MORN BRA, THIS IS CREDIBLY TEMPTG AND CREASGLY POSSIBLE. NEHER BRA’S CONSERVATIV NOR S LIBERAL DEMOCRATS HAVE BEEN EE OF SUCH ELECTORAL OPPORTUNISM THE PAST.WHEN PH TO SHOVE, GAG POWER BE MORE IMPORTANT FOR POLICIANS OM ALL PARTI, THAN FENDG PRCIPL. AND SADLY, EXTREMISTS REMA AMONG THE MOST POWERFUL ANIZED FORC BRA’S MLIM GRASSROOTS.BUT DID NOT NEED TO BE LIKE THIS. AS A LUMN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL RECENTLY NOTED “OTHER MLIM LEARS TOOK A DIFFERENT APPROACH”. SO NO, KHAN IS NO EXTREMIST, BUT CERTALY WAS NOT ‘RACIST’ TO PRS HIM ON THE ISSU. THOUGH THE CRY OF RACISM DID EVENTUALLY BOOMERANG TO H HIS OWN MPAIGN.IT IS ONLY AFTER KNOWG HOW KHAN SHORED UP HIS 2010 POWER BASE TOOTG, PART BY MONIZG HIS RIVAL AS BEG “NOT MLIM ENOUGH,” THAT THE SNDAL THAT H KHAN ON THE LAST DAY OF HIS MPAIGN BEGS TO MAK SENSE.IT WAS DISVERED THAT 2009 KHAN ED THE RACIALLY DIVISIVE AND ROGATORY TERM “UNCLE TOM”—ON IRANIAN STATE TV NO LS—TO SCRIBE REFORMG LIBERAL MLIMS, WHO UNTER EXTREMISM. THE QUTN KHAN ANSWERED HERE ME SPECIFIC REFERENCE TO MY OWN ANIZATN, QUILLIAM. BY 2009, EXTREMISM HAD GROWN SO RIFE AMONG MY OWN BRISH MLIM MUNY THAT, A SIGN OF OUR TIM, A MLIM ERNMENT MISTER FOR SOCIAL COHN WOULD FD POLILLY EXPEDIENT TO LL A GROUP OF MLIMS, WHO WERE NOT ERNMENT, “UNCLE TOMS” SIMPLY FOR CRICIZG EXTREMISM.THE STGGL THAT REFORMG LIBERAL AND EX-MLIMS FACE EVERY DAY, THE HUMANIZATN, THE LEGIMIZATN, THE EXMUNITN, THE OUTSTG, THE THREATS, TIMIDATN AND THE VLENCE MAK THIS EXCABLE.IN THEIR VERY NATURE, SUCH SLURS ARE SIGNED TO HUMANIZE THE TEND TARGET AS NOT MLIM ENOUGH, WHICH TURN N CE MLIM ON MLIM VLENCE.TODAY, MLIM TERRORISTS KILL MORE MLIMS THAN PEOPLE OM ANY OTHER FAH, AFTER THEY HUMANIZE THEM FOR BEG “NOT MLIM ENOUGH.” IN SUCH A CLIMATE, LABELG UNTER-EXTREMIST MLIMS AS “UNCLE TOMS,” “HOE MLIMS,” OR “NATIVE INFORMANTS” IS PARABLE TO LLG SOMEONE A HERETIC DURG THE INQUISN, OR A NI*** DURG U.S. SEGREGATN.DEGRADG THE “MLIMNS” OF SOMEONE CLAIMG OTHERWISE IS A PREREQUISE TO THEIR MURR BY TERRORISTS. THE RECENT MURR OF AN AHMEDI SHOPKEEPER STLAND—WHOSE SECT KHAN VILIFIED HIS 2010 TOOTG MPAIGN—BRGS THE SERNS OF SUCH SLURS HOME. KHAN KNOWS ALL OF THIS. HE REALLY SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER.AMONG MY FELLOW LIBERALS, WOULD NEVER FLY FOR A WHE NDIDATE TO SAY SOMETHG RACIST, NOR CE RELIG HATRED AGAST THOSE EMED NOT CHRISTIAN ENOUGH. LIKEWISE, SHOULDN’T WHEN A BROWN MLIM POLICIAN DO SO. KHAN’S LAST-MUTE GENERAL APOLOGY IS A WELE START, BUT HIS TIME AS MAYOR WILL NEED TO SHOW A TRACK RERD OF URTG THE RIGHT PEOPLE, WHILE DISTANCG EXTREMISTS, BEFORE RRI ANY WEIGHT.WHY IS OK FOR A MAYOR TO HAVE SHARED PANELS WH ALL MANNER OF MLIM EXTREMISTS, WHILE ACTIVELY DISTANCG HIMSELF OM, AND SMEARG UNTER-EXTREMIST MLIMS?DPE THIS, LIBERAL MLIM REFORMERS AND EX-MLIMS ALIKE WOULD PROBABLY STILL LEND THEIR GOOD WILL AND SUPPORT TO KHAN.TO BE HONT, HIS PERSONAL LIFE HE IS PRETTY MUCH A LIBERAL MLIM. SO MUCH SO THAT HIS OLD IENDS, THE EXTREMISTS, ARE ALREADY CLASSIFYG HIM AS A TRAOR FOR NOT BEG ANTI-ISRAEL ENOUGH, AND FOR SUPPORTG GAY MARRIAGE EQUALY.IN A FUNNY TWIST, SOME MLIMS ARE NOW PARG HIM TO THOSE HE EMED “UNCLE TOMS” THE PAST. POLICIANS OM ACROSS THE WT MT LEARN OM A PAST PLAYG POLICS WH RELIGN. FOR ANTI-MLIM BIGOTS, WE’RE ALWAYS TOO MLIM. FOR MLIM EXTREMISTS, WE’RE NEVER MLIM ENOUGH. LUCKILY FOR LONDON’S “FIRST MLIM MAYOR,” GOD VENTED SECULARISM. MAAJID NAWAZ
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- 5 THGS TO KNOW ABOUT LONDON’S FIRST MLIM MAYORJANE ONYANGA-OMARAUSA TODAYVIEW COMMENTS LONDON — SADIQ KHAN BEME LONDON'S FIRST MLIM MAYOR FRIDAY A HISTORIC ELECTN. HERE ARE FIVE THGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT HIM.1. HUMBLE BEGNGSKHAN, 45, WAS BORN THE NOW GENTRIFYG NEIGHBORHOOD OF TOOTG, SOUTH LONDON, TO A B DRIVER OM PAKISTAN AND A SEAMSTRS MOTHER. HE WAS RAISED ERNMENT-SUBSIDIZED HOG WH SEVEN SIBLGS, WHICH HE SAYS ENABLED HIS PARENTS TO SAVE TO BUY A HOME OF THEIR OWN. LONDON IS FACG A MAJOR HOG CRISIS, WH HIGH RENTS AND MORTGAG BEYOND MANY PEOPLE’S REACH, WHICH KHAN HAS PLEDGED TO TACKLE. KHAN, WHO IS ALSO THE MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT FOR TOOTG, SAID HE RAN FOR MAYOR BEE “I WANT ALL LONDONERS TO GET THE OPPORTUNI THAT OUR CY GAVE ME."LABOUR PARTY CLAR VICTORY HISTORIC LONDON ELECTN2. HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYERAFTER ATTENDG STATE SCHOOLS TOOTG, KHAN STUDIED LAW AT UNIVERSY LONDON AND WORKED AS A HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYER FOR MORE THAN A . HE BEME LONDON’S YOUNGT UNCILOR AT 23 WHEN HE WAS ELECTED TO THE LOL THORY TOOTG. HE ALSO SERVED AS CHAIRMAN OF LIBERTY, A LEADG HUMAN RIGHTS ANIZATN ENGLAND AND WAL, FOR THREE YEARS. KHAN WAS ELECTED TO THE BRISH PARLIAMENT 2005 AND WAS TRANSPORT MISTER BETWEEN 2009 AND 2010, WHEN THE LABOUR ERNMENT WAS VOTED OUT AND REPLACED BY A ALN BETWEEN THE CONSERVATIVE AND LIBERAL DEMOCRAT PARTI.3. PRACTICG MLIMA PRACTICG MLIM, KHAN VOTED FAVOR OF GAY MARRIAGE 2013, SPARKG ATH THREATS OM EXTREMISTS, ACRDG TO MEDIA REPORTS. HE DO NOT DRK ALHOL BUT VISS PUBS AND HAS LLED FOR THEM TO BE PROTECTED OM CLOSURE. KHAN MARRIED FELLOW LAWYER SAADIYA KHAN 1994 AND THE UPLE HAVE TWO DGHTERS. HE BEME THE FIRST MLIM MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT TO BE ELECTED LONDON 2005. HE WROTE THE BOOK FAIRNS NOT FAVOURS - HOW TO NNECT WH BRISH MLIMS THREE YEARS LATER.4. RIVAL’S ‘NASTY, DOG-WHISTLG MPAIGN’
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THE SECRET LIFE OF SADIQ KHAN, LONDON’S FIRST MLIM MAYORJUMPING THE SHARQY, SADIQ KHAN SUCKED UP TO EXTREMIST MLIMS THE PAST, BUT, STILL, NGRATULATNS ARE ORR FOR HIM—AND THE VOTERS.MAAJID NAWAZUPDATED APR. 13, 2017 3:55PM EDT / PUBLISHED MAY 08, 2016 12:00AM EDT YUI MOK/AFP/GETTY IMAGLONDON — IT’S A PIECE OF HISTORY. LONDON HAS GAED HER FIRST MLIM MAYOR, A FELLOW PAKISTANI-BR. AND THOUGH BEG MLIM BEARS ABSOLUTELY NO RELEVANCE TO HOW SADIQ KHAN TENDS TO N LONDON—FOR ISLAM IS AS AMBIVALENT ON THE DIFFICULTI OF LONDON’S HOG CRISIS AS IS ON THE HUMAN GENE SEQUENCE—HIS RELIGN HAS BEE RELEVANT.IN SUCCSFULLY TEGRATG THEIR MLIM RINTS, LONDON, THE UNED KGDOM, EUROPE, AND THE WIR WT HAVE BEEN GOG THROUGH SOMETHG OF AN INTY CRISIS.ISLAMIST MLIMS WHO SIST THAT HUMANY N ONLY BE JUDGED BY HOW MLIM IS, AND ANTI-MLIM BIGOTS WHO SIST THAT HUMANY N ONLY BE JUDGED BY HOW MLIM ISN’T, HAVE MA ISLAM RELEVANT. THE REGRSIVE LEFT SADIQ KHAN’S LABOUR PARTY, AND THE POPULIST RIGHT AMONG TMP’S REPUBLINS HAVE MA ISLAM A HOT TOPIC. THE ONLY WAY ISLAM WILL CEASE BEG AN ISSUE IS WHEN EVERYONE, MLIM OR NOT, IS EMED TO SHARE THE SAME RIGHTS, AND IS HELD TO THE VERY SAME LIBERAL EXPECTATNS. UNTIL THEN, DISCRIMATN WILL NTUE TO FEED THE POISONO TRIBALISM FUELG MORN INTY POLICS. THIS APPLI WHETHER THAT DISCRIMATN THE FORM OF RIGHT-WG ANTI-MLIM BIGOTRY, OR THE FORM OF THE LEFT-WG BIGOTRY OF LOW EXPECTATNS THAT HOLDS MLIMS TO LSER, ILLIBERAL STANDARDS. UNTIL THE TW BIGOTRI ARE ALT WH, SADIQ KHAN’S RELIG AFFILIATN WILL, SADLY, REMA A TOPIC OF BATE.IN THIS WAY, THE VICTORY OF LONDON’S NEW MAYOR AS A NON-ISLAMIST MLIM IS AS MUCH A BLOW TO ISLAMIST BIGOTS AS IS TO ANTI-MLIM BIGOTS. THIS VICTORY SPEAKS TO THE POSSIBILI OF TEGRATN. IT OFFERS HOPE FOR OUR UNTRY’S NEW IMMIGRANT FAI. AND AS A SYMBOL OF SOCIAL MOBILY, PROVIS ASPIRATN TO THOSE OM HUMBLE BACKGROUNDS.SADIQ KHAN’S VICTORY IS PROBABLY THE ONLY B OF GOOD NEWS JEREMY CORBYN’S FAR-LEFT-LED LABOUR PARTY N TLY CELEBRATE THIS WEEKEND. AND CELEBRATE THEY SHOULD. DEMOCRACY HAS SPOKEN. WH , A TORN CY MIGHT BE ABLE TO BEG HEALG THE OLD WOUNDS OF INTY AND RELIGN RE-OPENED BY THE MUDDY MPAIGN TO GET KHAN ELECTED, AND THE MUDDY MPAIGN THAT OPPOSED HIM.THE MUDDY MPAIGNS WERE FACT A MICROSM OF THE INTY PROBLEMS PLAGUG MORN EUROPE. IS LONDON’S NEW MAYOR AN ISLAMIST? THIS QUTN DROVE A POLIL PENDULUM SWG TO BOTH EXTREM AT THE EXPENSE OF A GENUE NVERSATN THAT REALLY NEEDS TO BE HAD.I’VE KNOWN SADIQ KHAN SCE 2002 WHEN HE WAS MY LAWYER WHILE I SERVED AS AN ISLAMIST POLIL PRISONER EGYPT, BEFORE HE BEME A MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT. I’M FOREVER BTED TO HIM FOR VISG ME MAZRA TORA PRISON, WHILE THE WORLD GAVE UP ON ME.DUE TO THIS HISTORY, MANY THE PRS ASKED ME FOR MY VIEW ON THE VERACY OF THE “ISLAMIST” ALLEGATNS SURROUNDG THE NEW MAYOR, BUT I REFED TO MAKE MY VIEWS KNOWN UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTNS. Y, THIS NVERSATN NEED TO BE HAD, BUT I PREFERRED TO HAVE ONLY WHEN THE TRIBALISMS OF LEFT AND RIGHT, OF MLIM AND NON-MLIM, WERE LEFT FIRMLY AT THE DOOR. ELECTN SEASON MA THAT ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE. SADIQ KHAN IS NO MLIM EXTREMIST. AND IS NOT ONLY HIS TRACK RERD VOTG FOR GAY RIGHTS THAT PROV THIS. HAVG KNOWN HIM WHEN I WAS A MLIM EXTREMIST, I KNOW THAT HE DID NOT SUBSCRIBE TO MY THEN-THEOCRATIC VIEWS.MANY NSERVATIV WHO SPERATELY OPPOSED KHAN JUMPED THE SHARK WHEN THEY LLED HIM A “RADIL ISLAMIST,” AND LKED HIM TO SENSATNALIST HEADL THAT CLARED HE HAD A “HARDRE ISLAMIST PAST.” NUANCE IS THE IEND OF TTH.ON THE OTHER HAND MANY MLIMS, AND THOSE ON THE LEFT, PREFERRED TO BURY THEIR HEADS THE SAND, CHASTISG ANYONE WHO DARED TO CHALLENGE KHAN ON HIS PAST ISLAMIST RELATNSHIPS, AS “RACISTS.” SEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL AND SPEAK NO EVIL. THE REGRSIVE LEFT’S OVESE OF THE WORD RACISM ON SUCH MATTERS IS AS UNHELPFUL AS THE POPULIST RIGHT’S OVESE OF THE WORD “EXTREMIST.”IT IS AS RACIST TO ASK THE QUTNS, AND TO HAVE THIS NVERSATN, AS WAS WHEN LONDONERS QUTNED THE WHE, NON-MLIM FORMER LABOUR MAYOR OF LONDON, KEN LIVGSTONE, ABOUT HIS LKS TO ISLAMISTS, OR WHEN THE PRS QUTN THE WHE, NON-MLIM LABOUR LEAR, JEREMY CORBYN, AND THE MAVERICK WHE POLICIAN GEE GALLOWAY OVER THEIR TI TO EXTREMISTS.IN OTHER WORDS ’S NOT RACIST AT ALL, AS ATMA SGH—LABOUR’S OWN SOUTH-ASIAN AFFAIRS ADVISOR TO A FORMER MAYOR OF LONDON—POTS OUT. TO IMPLY THAT IS, AND TO HOLD SADIQ KHAN TO A LSER STANDARD THAN HIS WHE LLEAGU MERELY BEE HE IS A BROWN MLIM, IS THE VERY BIGOTRY OF LOW EXPECTATNS THAT FUELS INTY POLICS EVEN FURTHER. ALONGSI THE ENVIRONMENT, EXTREMISM IS ONE OF THE MOST PRSG ISSU OF OUR DAY. OF URSE WILL E UP AN ELECTN MPAIGN.AND FERENCE TO THE SERNS OF THE SUBJECT, AND THE LIV LOST OVER , WHAT ME UP ABOUT KHAN’S ALLEGED LKS TO EXTREMISTS IS PERTENT. THOSE QUTNS NEED TO BE ASKED. I NNOT EMPHASIZE ENOUGH THAT I WRE AS A LIBERAL, WHO VOTED FOR A LIBERAL DEMOCRAT THIS RACE, AND NOT AS A NSERVATIVE. SO NOW THAT THE ELECTN IS OVER, AND LONDON HAS S FIRST MLIM MAYOR, LET STEP BACK AND NSIR THE SMOKE TO THIS NSERVATIVE FIRE.THE SEEDS WERE SOWN WH KHAN’S NOW-FORMER -LAWS. DURG LONDON’S ’90S ISLAMIST HEYDAY, KHAN’S BROTHER--LAW MAKBOOL JAVAID WAS AFFILIATED AND LISTED AS A SPOKMAN TO THE NOW-BANNED TERRORIST GROUP AL-MUHAJIROUN, FOUND BY THE HATE PREACHER OMAR BAKRI MUHAMMAD, AND THEN LED BY THE FAMO FANATIC ANJEM CHOUDARY. I KNEW OF MAKBOOL BACK THEN, TOO. HIS BROTHERS WERE LLEAGU OF ME, AFFILIATED TO MY FORMER EXTREMIST ANIZATN, HIZB UT-TAHRIR.THROUGH SUCH NNECTNS KHAN GRATIATED HIMSELF THE LONDON ISLAMIST SCENE. IN 2003, HE APPEARED AT A NFERENCE ALONGSI SAJEEL ABU IBRAHIM, A MEMBER OF THAT SAME BANNED AL-MUHAJIROUN.SAJEEL RAN A MP PAKISTAN THAT TRAED THE 7/7 BOMBER MOHAMMAD SIDIQUE KHAN. SPEAKG THERE, TOO, WAS ONE YASSER AL-SIRI, WHO HAD BEEN NVICTED EGYPT OVER A POLIL ASSASSATN ATTEMPT THAT LEFT A YOUNG GIRL AD.IN 2004, KHAN GAVE EVINCE TO THE HOE OF COMMONS HIS PACY AS THE CHAIR OF THE MLIM COUNCIL OF BRA’S LEGAL AFFAIRS MTEE. THIS IS THE SAME MLIM COUNCIL OF BRA THAT CHOSE TO NDOLE THE RECENT AHMEDI MURR VICTIM GLASGOW, BY CLARG AHMEDIS NOT MLIM.IN HIS MCB PACY, KHAN ARGUED PARLIAMENT THAT THE MLIM BROTHERHOOD CLERIC DR. YUF AL-QARADAWI “IS NOT THE EXTREMIST THAT HE IS PATED AS BEG.”THIS IS QARADAWI WHO, AMONG OTHER THGS, THORED A BOOK LLED THE LAWFUL AND PROHIBED ISLAM, WHICH HE JTIFI WIFE BEATG AND DISCS WHETHER HOMOSEXUALS SHOULD BE KILLED.INFAMOLY, QARADAWI ALSO ISSUED A FATWA ADVOTG SUICI BOMBGS AGAST ISRAELI CIVILIANS, A VIEW WHICH HAS SEEN HIM JO THE LIK OF OMAR BAKRI MUHAMMAD BEG NIED ENTRY TO THE U.K.KHAN’S RELATNSHIPS WH EXTREMISTS RAN SO EP FACT, THAT HE ATTEND EVENTS FOR THE JIHADIST RIGHTS GROUP CAGE, AND WROTE A FOREWORD FOR ONE OF THEIR REPORTS. CAGE HAS SCE CLARED ISIS EXECUTNER ‘JIHADI-JOHN’ TO BE A BETIFUL MAN LIVE ON THE BBC.KHAN’S FENCE OF SUCH A PROLIFIC FLIRTATN WH ISLAMISM IS THAT HE WAS A HUMAN-RIGHTS LAWYER. HOWEVER, MOST OF THE EVENTS WERE NOT ATTEND HIS PACY AS A LAWYER AT ALL. ONE SPECTS HE WAS SIMPLY TRYG TO GA VOT.BY 2010, WH CREASG GRASSROOTS POPULARY AMONG HIGHLY ANIZED ISLAMISTS AND FUNDAMENTALISTS, BUT RRYG THE BURN OF THE LABOUR PARTY’S WAR ON TERROR RERD, KHAN’S BID TO GET RE-ELECTED HIS HOME-BASE OF SOUTH LONDON’S TOOTG WAS FACG CHALLENG OM ANOTHER MLIM. FOR UNLIKE THE LABOUR PARTY, THIS MLIM’S PARTY HAD OPPOSED THE VASN OF IRAQ.KHAN’S RIVAL WAS LIBERAL DEMOCRAT NASSER BUTT. LIBERAL DEMOCRAT OPPOSN TO THE IRAQ WAR POSED A SER CHALLENGE TO KHAN AND HIS MLIM POWER BASE TOOTG. BRISH SOUTH ASIAN MLIMS—MYSELF CLUD—OVERWHELMGLY OPPOSED THAT WAR. “LUCKILY” FOR KHAN, NASSER HAPPENED TO BE AN AHMADI MLIM. Y, THIS IS AS RELEVANT AS SADIQ KHAN BEG A SUNNI MLIM. IN OTHER WORDS NOT AT ALL, A PERFECT WORLD. ALAS, KHAN’S WORLD WAS FAR OM PERFECT. AHMEDIS ARE PERHAPS THE MOST PERSECUTED MORY SECTS AMONG SUNNI MLIMS.KHAN KNEW THIS, AND YET THIS FACT DIDN’T STOP HIS MPAIGN WORKG CLOSELY WH TOOTG MOSQUE TO STIR UP ANTI-AHMEDI SECTARIAN HATRED ORR TO SECURE THE SUNNI VOTE FOR HIS VICTORY. FOR MANY OF MY FELLOW SUNNI MLIMS NASSER BUTT BEG AN AHMEDI WAS A DOCTRAL “OFFENCE” FOR WHICH HE WAS PERSONALLY RPONSIBLE, WHILE KHAN WAS TOO JUNR OF AN MP AT THAT TIME TO HAVE MUCH TO DO WH THE VASN OF IRAQ. BY NOW, KHAN’S RELIG WRG WAS CLEARLY ON THE MOSQUE WALL.AGA, KHAN IS NO MLIM EXTREMIST. INED, THIS NNOT BE REPEATED ENOUGH. NOR N THE FACT THAT KHAN CLEARLY HAS A RERD OF TERRIBLY POOR JUDGMENT SURROUNDG HIMSELF WH ISLAMISTS AND MLIM EXTREMISTS, AND G THEM FOR VOT.FOR A MLIM POLICIAN MORN BRA, THIS IS CREDIBLY TEMPTG AND CREASGLY POSSIBLE. NEHER BRA’S CONSERVATIV NOR S LIBERAL DEMOCRATS HAVE BEEN EE OF SUCH ELECTORAL OPPORTUNISM THE PAST.WHEN PH TO SHOVE, GAG POWER BE MORE IMPORTANT FOR POLICIANS OM ALL PARTI, THAN FENDG PRCIPL. AND SADLY, EXTREMISTS REMA AMONG THE MOST POWERFUL ANIZED FORC BRA’S MLIM GRASSROOTS.BUT DID NOT NEED TO BE LIKE THIS. AS A LUMN THE WALL STREET JOURNAL RECENTLY NOTED “OTHER MLIM LEARS TOOK A DIFFERENT APPROACH”. SO NO, KHAN IS NO EXTREMIST, BUT CERTALY WAS NOT ‘RACIST’ TO PRS HIM ON THE ISSU. THOUGH THE CRY OF RACISM DID EVENTUALLY BOOMERANG TO H HIS OWN MPAIGN.IT IS ONLY AFTER KNOWG HOW KHAN SHORED UP HIS 2010 POWER BASE TOOTG, PART BY MONIZG HIS RIVAL AS BEG “NOT MLIM ENOUGH,” THAT THE SNDAL THAT H KHAN ON THE LAST DAY OF HIS MPAIGN BEGS TO MAK SENSE.IT WAS DISVERED THAT 2009 KHAN ED THE RACIALLY DIVISIVE AND ROGATORY TERM “UNCLE TOM”—ON IRANIAN STATE TV NO LS—TO SCRIBE REFORMG LIBERAL MLIMS, WHO UNTER EXTREMISM. THE QUTN KHAN ANSWERED HERE ME SPECIFIC REFERENCE TO MY OWN ANIZATN, QUILLIAM. BY 2009, EXTREMISM HAD GROWN SO RIFE AMONG MY OWN BRISH MLIM MUNY THAT, A SIGN OF OUR TIM, A MLIM ERNMENT MISTER FOR SOCIAL COHN WOULD FD POLILLY EXPEDIENT TO LL A GROUP OF MLIMS, WHO WERE NOT ERNMENT, “UNCLE TOMS” SIMPLY FOR CRICIZG EXTREMISM.THE STGGL THAT REFORMG LIBERAL AND EX-MLIMS FACE EVERY DAY, THE HUMANIZATN, THE LEGIMIZATN, THE EXMUNITN, THE OUTSTG, THE THREATS, TIMIDATN AND THE VLENCE MAK THIS EXCABLE.IN THEIR VERY NATURE, SUCH SLURS ARE SIGNED TO HUMANIZE THE TEND TARGET AS NOT MLIM ENOUGH, WHICH TURN N CE MLIM ON MLIM VLENCE.TODAY, MLIM TERRORISTS KILL MORE MLIMS THAN PEOPLE OM ANY OTHER FAH, AFTER THEY HUMANIZE THEM FOR BEG “NOT MLIM ENOUGH.” IN SUCH A CLIMATE, LABELG UNTER-EXTREMIST MLIMS AS “UNCLE TOMS,” “HOE MLIMS,” OR “NATIVE INFORMANTS” IS PARABLE TO LLG SOMEONE A HERETIC DURG THE INQUISN, OR A NI*** DURG U.S. SEGREGATN.DEGRADG THE “MLIMNS” OF SOMEONE CLAIMG OTHERWISE IS A PREREQUISE TO THEIR MURR BY TERRORISTS. THE RECENT MURR OF AN AHMEDI SHOPKEEPER STLAND—WHOSE SECT KHAN VILIFIED HIS 2010 TOOTG MPAIGN—BRGS THE SERNS OF SUCH SLURS HOME. KHAN KNOWS ALL OF THIS. HE REALLY SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER.AMONG MY FELLOW LIBERALS, WOULD NEVER FLY FOR A WHE NDIDATE TO SAY SOMETHG RACIST, NOR CE RELIG HATRED AGAST THOSE EMED NOT CHRISTIAN ENOUGH. LIKEWISE, SHOULDN’T WHEN A BROWN MLIM POLICIAN DO SO. KHAN’S LAST-MUTE GENERAL APOLOGY IS A WELE START, BUT HIS TIME AS MAYOR WILL NEED TO SHOW A TRACK RERD OF URTG THE RIGHT PEOPLE, WHILE DISTANCG EXTREMISTS, BEFORE RRI ANY WEIGHT.WHY IS OK FOR A MAYOR TO HAVE SHARED PANELS WH ALL MANNER OF MLIM EXTREMISTS, WHILE ACTIVELY DISTANCG HIMSELF OM, AND SMEARG UNTER-EXTREMIST MLIMS?DPE THIS, LIBERAL MLIM REFORMERS AND EX-MLIMS ALIKE WOULD PROBABLY STILL LEND THEIR GOOD WILL AND SUPPORT TO KHAN.TO BE HONT, HIS PERSONAL LIFE HE IS PRETTY MUCH A LIBERAL MLIM. SO MUCH SO THAT HIS OLD IENDS, THE EXTREMISTS, ARE ALREADY CLASSIFYG HIM AS A TRAOR FOR NOT BEG ANTI-ISRAEL ENOUGH, AND FOR SUPPORTG GAY MARRIAGE EQUALY.IN A FUNNY TWIST, SOME MLIMS ARE NOW PARG HIM TO THOSE HE EMED “UNCLE TOMS” THE PAST. POLICIANS OM ACROSS THE WT MT LEARN OM A PAST PLAYG POLICS WH RELIGN. FOR ANTI-MLIM BIGOTS, WE’RE ALWAYS TOO MLIM. FOR MLIM EXTREMISTS, WE’RE NEVER MLIM ENOUGH. LUCKILY FOR LONDON’S “FIRST MLIM MAYOR,” GOD VENTED SECULARISM. MAAJID NAWAZ
Why do Sadiq Khan support gay marriag? And is not only his track rerd votg for gay rights that prov this.
”This is Qaradawi who, among other thgs, thored a book lled The Lawful and Prohibed Islam, which he jtifi wife beatg and discs whether homosexuals should be killed.
So much so that his old iends, the extremists, are already classifyg him as a traor for not beg anti-Israel enough, and for supportg gay marriage a funny twist, some Mlims are now parg him to those he emed “Uncle Toms” the past.
DEATH THREATS TO UK'S TOP MLIM MP WHO VOTED FOR GAY MARRIAGE
Police have told Sadiq Khan he should review the secury around him and his fay followg the Commons voteOfficers his Tootg nstuency London have been put on high alertKhan was among 400 MPs, five Mlim, who voted favour of the bill Published: 22:14 BST, 16 Febary 2013 | Updated: 01:40 BST, 17 Febary 2013 Sadiq Khan, Labour's Shadow Jtice Secretary, has received ath threats after votg favour of gay marriage Bra's most senr Mlim MP has received ath threats after votg favour of gay marriage. It is believed Mr Khan, who was mpaign manager for Ed Miliband’s succsful learship bid, has been sgled out as he is the most proment Mlim Khan – who beme Bra’s first Mlim Mister to attend Cabet the last Government – has been nmned by Brish-based hardle clerics, who have acced him of ‘sellg out’ his Muhammed Aslam Naqshbandi Bandhalevi, who is the head imam of the Jamia Islamia Rizvia mosque Bradford, has issued a fatwa, or lg, clarg Mr Khan an ‘apostate’ om Islam and said he should ‘repent before Allah’ veiled threats agast all the Mlim MPs who backed gay marriage are visible onle.
’ Mufti Muhammed Aslam Naqshbandi Bandhalevi, head imam of the Jamia Islamia Rizvia mosque Bradford, has issued a fatwa, or lg, clarg Mr Khan an 'apostate' om Islam Another webse, lled, warns: ‘Time to acunt the apostate MPs, they changed somethg that Allah ma haram to halal [lawful] by votg for gay marriag.
5 THGS TO KNOW ABOUT LONDON’S FIRST MLIM MAYORJANE ONYANGA-OMARAUSA TODAYVIEW COMMENTS LONDON — SADIQ KHAN BEME LONDON'S FIRST MLIM MAYOR FRIDAY A HISTORIC ELECTN. HERE ARE FIVE THGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT HIM.1. HUMBLE BEGNGSKHAN, 45, WAS BORN THE NOW GENTRIFYG NEIGHBORHOOD OF TOOTG, SOUTH LONDON, TO A B DRIVER OM PAKISTAN AND A SEAMSTRS MOTHER. HE WAS RAISED ERNMENT-SUBSIDIZED HOG WH SEVEN SIBLGS, WHICH HE SAYS ENABLED HIS PARENTS TO SAVE TO BUY A HOME OF THEIR OWN. LONDON IS FACG A MAJOR HOG CRISIS, WH HIGH RENTS AND MORTGAG BEYOND MANY PEOPLE’S REACH, WHICH KHAN HAS PLEDGED TO TACKLE. KHAN, WHO IS ALSO THE MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT FOR TOOTG, SAID HE RAN FOR MAYOR BEE “I WANT ALL LONDONERS TO GET THE OPPORTUNI THAT OUR CY GAVE ME."LABOUR PARTY CLAR VICTORY HISTORIC LONDON ELECTN2. HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYERAFTER ATTENDG STATE SCHOOLS TOOTG, KHAN STUDIED LAW AT UNIVERSY LONDON AND WORKED AS A HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYER FOR MORE THAN A . HE BEME LONDON’S YOUNGT UNCILOR AT 23 WHEN HE WAS ELECTED TO THE LOL THORY TOOTG. HE ALSO SERVED AS CHAIRMAN OF LIBERTY, A LEADG HUMAN RIGHTS ANIZATN ENGLAND AND WAL, FOR THREE YEARS. KHAN WAS ELECTED TO THE BRISH PARLIAMENT 2005 AND WAS TRANSPORT MISTER BETWEEN 2009 AND 2010, WHEN THE LABOUR ERNMENT WAS VOTED OUT AND REPLACED BY A ALN BETWEEN THE CONSERVATIVE AND LIBERAL DEMOCRAT PARTI.3. PRACTICG MLIMA PRACTICG MLIM, KHAN VOTED FAVOR OF GAY MARRIAGE 2013, SPARKG ATH THREATS OM EXTREMISTS, ACRDG TO MEDIA REPORTS. HE DO NOT DRK ALHOL BUT VISS PUBS AND HAS LLED FOR THEM TO BE PROTECTED OM CLOSURE. KHAN MARRIED FELLOW LAWYER SAADIYA KHAN 1994 AND THE UPLE HAVE TWO DGHTERS. HE BEME THE FIRST MLIM MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT TO BE ELECTED LONDON 2005. HE WROTE THE BOOK FAIRNS NOT FAVOURS - HOW TO NNECT WH BRISH MLIMS THREE YEARS LATER.4. RIVAL’S ‘NASTY, DOG-WHISTLG MPAIGN’
Death threats to UK's top Mlim MP who voted for gay marriage.
In a PkNews terview earlier this year, Mr Khan pledged his support for LGBT Londoners and said he would work to tackle homophobia across muni. “Whether you’re an ethnic mory, you’re lbian gay, trans, relig mory, a woman, disabled, to me ’s personal bee I have been on the receivg end. Practicg MlimA practicg Mlim, Khan voted favor of gay marriage 2013, sparkg ath threats om extremists, acrdg to media reports.
Sadiq Khan gay rights U-turn as London b adverts promote World Cup Qatar - spe ban on promotns om untri wh anti-LGBT+ lawsSadiq Khan imposed a ban on ads om stat wh poor human rights rerds Male homosexualy is illegal Qatar and 6, 500 migrant workers may have diedAdverts have now appeared on some London b promotg the World Cup Published: 00:06 BST, 4 September 2022 | Updated: 00:06 BST, 4 September 2022.
SADIQ KHAN GAY RIGHTS U-TURN AS LONDON B ADVERTS PROMOTE WORLD CUP QATAR
Transport for London (TfL) spend new adverts om untri such as Sdi Arabia, Pakistan and Qatar 2019 after Mr Khan, who is s chairman, asked to ‘review how treats advertisg and sponsorship om untri wh anti-LGBT+ laws’ homosexualy is illegal Qatar and punishable by ath. ’Kate Barker, of the LGB Alliance supportg the rights of lbians, gay men and bisexuals, said: ‘TfL’s pledge not to accept money om homophobic regim seems to have been wrten sand. Sadiq Khan Leadg Gay Pri Para.