London’s Muslim Mayor Problem
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For those people unfamiliar with recent events in Europe — especially those in the United Kingdom — there have been some radical demographic shifts that have seen Muslims rise from a very small minority to an increasingly vocal group that threatens to one day become a majority in countries such as France, the UK and Belgium as well as in many other nations.
In London alone, Muslims comprise more than 1.3 million citizens. Already, this concentrated group has helped elect a Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, who has in turn appointed a deputy mayor, Matthew Ryder, who is also Muslim, and major changes appear to be on the horizon in the British capital.
It emerged during Khan’s inaugural mayoral campaign that Khan had defended 91/11 terrorists earlier in his career as a barrister and had at least one brother-in-law who had been a member of terrorist group Al-Muhajiroun.
In 2008, Khan spoke at the Global Peace and Unity Conference, an event organized by a group calling itself the Islam Channel — the same group that’s been censored numerous times in the past for extremism by British media regulators. During Khan’s speech, members of the audience could be seen flying the familiar black flags of overseas jihad.
Matthew Ryder, Khan’s Deputy Mayor for Social Integration, Social Mobility and Community Engagement, was also a former barrister and focused on prosecuting police and security services personnel for alleged unlawful detention and undercover surveillance of Muslims in the British capital.
Ryder in the past worked with an organization called CAGE (formerly known as Cageprisoners Limited), which has been described as an extremist “advocacy group for Islamic fundamentalism in British society” defending radicals that are “persecuted” by the country’s anti-terror laws.
CAGE has defended convicted killers and terrorists including Mohammed Emwazi, better known as “Jihadi John” — the Briton seen beheading orange-jumpsuit-clad prisoners in many online video clips uploaded to Youtube by terrorist organization ISIS. CAGE has told Muslims in the UK to “support the jihad” in Afghanistan and Iraq and argued that Britain had nothing to fear regarding Muslims traveling to Syria to engage in battles there.
In 2013, Ryder spoke at an event with Moazzam Begg, a former inmate of Guantanamo Bay prison who has admitted attending militant Jihadi training camps and who signed a confession to the U.S. military that he was a recruiter for Al Qaeda.
Heading the event was Asim Qureshi, CAGE’s Director of Research, who has in the past stated “[it is] incumbent on us all to support the Jihad [against the West]” and that the “example” of Iraqi militants should be followed by other Muslims. He’s also praised terrorist group Hezbollah for its “defeating the armies of Israel.”
Upon Khan’s appointment of Ryder, the mayor’s office issued a statement that read, “[Khan] has asked Matthew to help ensure Londoners from different faiths, ethnicities, backgrounds and social classes are better integrated in a city that is the most diverse in the country, where the population is at record levels and where more than 100 languages are spoken… Matthew’s task will be to ensure Londoners of every gender, ethnicity, faith, culture, age, sexuality and socio-economic background don’t just live side by side, but live truly interconnected lives.”
Of course, the statement may have been referring to some groups, and not others. When Khan was elected, there was widespread reporting of members of the city’s Jewish community being prevented from voting. In the city’s borough of Barnet, where much of the Jewish community in the city lives, an “error” at a polling station prevented many votes from the district from being counted; even the city’s head rabbi was turned away.
Sadiq Khan is the son of a Pakistani bus driver. Just after his election, London’s famous double-decker buses bore slogans that read, “Glory to Allah.” A few months later, the same buses were outfitted with the slogan “Subhan Allah” — which has been mistranslated as “God is Great” — but which actually more accurately translates to “Our God — Allah — Is Greater [Than Yours].”
After his election, Khan announced a policy of banning images of scantily clad women on all public transport buses and subways as part of efforts to promote a conservative image in depicting females; women appearing in advertising images must now be covered and can no longer appear in bikinis.
Officially, the excuse for this is that the city doesn’t want to promote “body shaming” of women — a politically correct PR story that many suspect is a cover for a Sharia law-inspired campaign of government-imposed modesty.
Like New York City’s mayor Bill DeBlasio and Paris’ mayor Anne Hidalgo, Khan is in favor of his country accepting far more foreign refugees than it currently does, even in the wake of terrorist incidents.
In fact, in an op-ed in The New York Times during the recent United Nations General Assembly, the three mayors stated, “[the] refugee crisis… has reached a level of urgency not seen since World War II. The United Nations Summit for Refugees and Migrants and President Obama’s Leaders’ Summit on Refugees represent a watershed moment that is putting a global spotlight on the need for an effective response to a growing humanitarian crisis.”
The three went on to declare that incidents of violence caused by refugees and immigrants are “rare,” and that anyone who attacks the mayors’ overt globalist agenda is clearly prejudiced.
“Our shared perspective is informed by the sober awareness of the dangers we face. In the aftermath of an explosive device going off in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York last weekend, and other attacks in cities throughout the world, we recognize that the security of all our residents is paramount in large, open, democratic societies,” they declared.
“But it is wrong to characterize immigrant and refugee communities as radical and dangerous; in our experience, militant violence is vanishingly rare. Therefore, we must continue to pursue an inclusive approach to resettlement in order to combat the growing tide of xenophobic language around the globe.”
Just hours after the aforementioned explosive device detonated on the streets of Manhattan and another device was found and defused, Khan met with New York mayor DeBlasio and stated that such terror attacks should now be accepted as “part and parcel” of daily urban life.
At a meeting with members of New York’s Muslim community hours earlier, Khan said that “It is a reality I’m afraid that London, New York, other major cities around the world have got to be prepared for these sorts of things.”
Perhaps not surprisingly to Khan, just 48 hours after his statements, the New York Police Department tracked a 28-year-old Afghani radical Muslim, Ahmad Rahami, suspected of committing the attacks, to his home in New Jersey where he battled police in a gunfight before being wounded, captured and charged with using weapons of mass destruction.
“All of these problems will not be solved by… voting for [Donald Trump as] president of the USA,” Khan later asserted, joking that he “shouldn’t really get involved in the American elections,” but that “I hope the best candidate wins — I’m sure she will,” in an obvious reference to Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, who Khan has endorsed in the past.
No doubt, Khan is looking forward to a day when Clinton’s policies will be more in line with those of his city.