All Discussions Tagged 'Khan' - The 4 Freedoms Library2024-03-28T19:33:42Zhttp://4freedoms.com/group/infiltration/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=Khan&feed=yes&xn_auth=noCantankerous Khans Can Takeover UKtag:4freedoms.com,2016-05-19:3766518:Topic:1789402016-05-19T14:15:14.979ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
<p>Khan should be a name, like Pasha or Moghul or Timur or Tamerlane, that initially inspires fear and caution. Of course, the same is true of a name like Jihad. These were not people you wanted to mess with. Yet people's knowledge of history is poor. I find it ironic, given the name, that people will vote for someone who's very name screams Islamic supremacism at them.</p>
<p>There are a surprising number of Khan's rising to power in the UK at the moment. I aim to collect them here.…</p>
<p>Khan should be a name, like Pasha or Moghul or Timur or Tamerlane, that initially inspires fear and caution. Of course, the same is true of a name like Jihad. These were not people you wanted to mess with. Yet people's knowledge of history is poor. I find it ironic, given the name, that people will vote for someone who's very name screams Islamic supremacism at them.</p>
<p>There are a surprising number of Khan's rising to power in the UK at the moment. I aim to collect them here. Please post here any others you find.</p>
<p>Sadiq Khan: MP then Mayor of London: <a href="http://4freedoms.com/group/infiltration/forum/topics/sadiq-khan-collected-articles">http://4freedoms.com/group/infiltration/forum/topics/sadiq-khan-collected-articles</a></p>
<p>Umer Khan: Chief of Manchester Police: <a href="http://4freedoms.com/group/infiltration/forum/topics/gmp-s-umer-khan-advocates-fascist-suppression-of-free-speech">http://4freedoms.com/group/infiltration/forum/topics/gmp-s-umer-khan-advocates-fascist-suppression-of-free-speech</a></p>
<p>Mohammed Altaf Khan: Mayor of Oxford: <a href="http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/14496354.Mohammed_Altaf_Khan_elected_as_new_Lord_Mayor_of_Oxford/">http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/14496354.Mohammed_Altaf_Khan_elected_as_new_Lord_Mayor_of_Oxford/</a></p>
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<p></p> GMP's Umer Khan advocates fascist suppression of free speechtag:4freedoms.com,2016-05-09:3766518:Topic:1781112016-05-09T20:07:10.131ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
<h2 class="post-title">MANCHESTER POLICE CHIEF THINKS YOU’RE NOT FREE TO OFFEND RELIGION</h2>
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<h2 class="post-title">MANCHESTER POLICE CHIEF THINKS YOU’RE NOT FREE TO OFFEND RELIGION</h2>
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<p>It’s such a shame that those eager to limit freedom of speech never do us the courtesy of starting with their own stupidity. I’m always amazed when people who enjoy a free, western democracy pay lip service to theocracy. It’s especially concerning when such a person happens to be a Chief Inspector for Greater Manchester Police in the UK.</p>
<p>Chief Inspector Umer Khan thought it was a good idea to <a href="https://twitter.com/ChInsUmerKhan/status/729236823902408704">share this</a> pearl of wisdom today on his <a href="https://twitter.com/ChInsUmerKhan">Twitter account</a>:</p>
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<p>Of course, any thinking person knows that’s <em>exactly</em> what freedom of speech means. Speech can never truly be ‘free’ unless it includes the right to say things some people may not enjoy hearing. Indeed, the right to ‘blaspheme’, mock sacred cows and challenge taboos is what has led to progress in any civil society. The price for this has always been ‘offense’. And the great thing about ‘offense’ is that it’s cheap.</p>
<p>By Umer Khan’s understanding, we are not free to offend people who endorse FGM, denigrate gay people as ‘sinners’ or think the appropriate punishment for adultery is death by stoning. It’s their ‘culture’, ‘tradition’ and ‘religion’ after all. Am I not free to tell a believer that some verses of the old testament are morally repugnant, lest they take offense?</p>
<p>It’s been said a million times before, and it’s important enough to be said a million times again: No-one has the right not to be offended. Offense is taken, not given. Just because you’re offended does not mean you’re right.</p>
<p>Umer Khan would say he’s entitled to his opinion of course, which is true. However, he’s clearly tweeting his opinion in his capacity as Chief Inspector. An opinion on what freedom of speech is or is not. In other words, his opinion on what the law means, or should mean.</p>
<p>It’s worth reminding Chief Inspector Khan that section 5 of the public order offence was<a href="http://www.secularism.org.uk/news/2013/02/section-5-reform-completes-its-parliamentary-progress">reformed in 2013</a> to remove the criminalisation of “Insulting words or behaviour”. It is also worth reminding the Chief Inspector that the <a href="http://www.consilium.europa.eu/uedocs/cms_data/docs/pressdata/EN/foraff/137585.pdf"><em>EU Guidelines</em></a><em> </em>clearly state that religious freedom ‘does not include the right to have a religion or a belief that is free from criticism or ridicule’.</p>
<p>With this in mind, perhaps Chief Inspector Khan could explain to the public and to his superiors why he is promoting sentiment that directly contradicts the law? I would submit that upholding the letter of the law is the bare minimum that should be expected from him.</p>
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</div> Sadiq Khan - collected articlestag:4freedoms.com,2016-05-08:3766518:Topic:1781042016-05-08T13:01:25.471ZAlan Lakehttp://4freedoms.com/profile/AlanLake
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<li><p>Conservative Party candidate Zac Goldsmith accused Khan of giving "platform, oxygen and cover" to Islamic extremists. He also accused Khan of "hiding behind Britain's Muslims" by branding as "Islamophobes" those who shed light on his past.</p>
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<li><p>"The questions are genuine, they are serious. They are about his willingness to share platforms with people who want to 'drown every Israeli Jew in the sea.' It's about his having employed someone who believed the Lee Rigby murder was fabricated. It's about his career before being an MP, coaching people in how to sue the police." — Conservative Party candidate Zac Goldsmith.</p>
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<li><p>In 2008, Khan gave a speech at the Global Peace and Unity Conference, an event organized by the Islam Channel, which has been censured repeatedly by British media regulators for extremism. Members of the audience were filmed flying the black flag of jihad while Khan was speaking.</p>
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<li><p>"I regret giving the impression I subscribed to their views and I've been quite clear I find their views abhorrent." — Sadiq Khan.</p>
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<li><p>"A Muslim man with way too many extremist links to be entirely coincidental is now the Mayor of London. I suppose this is hardly a shock, though. The native English are a demographic minority (and a rapidly dwindling one) in London, whilst Muslims from Pakistan and Bangladesh are a rapidly expanding demographic." — British politician Paul Weston.</p>
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<div class="itemprop_articlebody"><p>Labour Party politician Sadiq Khan has been <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-36235828" target="_blank">sworn in</a> as mayor of London. He is the first Muslim to lead a major European city.</p>
<p>Khan, 45, is the London-born son of Pakistani immigrants. His father was a bus driver and he grew up with seven siblings in a government-subsidized apartment. He studied law, became a university professor and served as chairman of the civil liberties pressure group Liberty. He was elected to Parliament in 2005. Khan's supporters <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-36140479" target="_blank">say</a> he is the epitome the Muslim immigrant success story.</p>
<p>Khan — who won 57% of the ballot, or 1.3 million votes, a number which happens to be roughly equal to Muslim population of London — has <a href="http://www.standard.co.uk/news/mayor/khan-and-goldsmith-go-on-the-attack-as-mayor-election-campaign-hots-up-a3208251.html" target="_blank">promised</a> to be "the British Muslim who takes the fight to the extremists." Others are not so sure. During the election campaign, Khan faced a steady stream of allegations about his past dealings with Muslim extremists and anti-Semites.</p>
<p>has <a href="http://www.standard.co.uk/news/mayor/khan-and-goldsmith-go-on-the-attack-as-mayor-election-campaign-hots-up-a3208251.html" target="_blank">promised</a> to be "the British Muslim who takes the fight to the extremists." Others are not so sure. During the election campaign, Khan faced a steady stream of allegations about his past dealings with Muslim extremists and anti-Semites.</p>
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<p>Khan's opponent, Conservative Party politician Zac Goldsmith, drew attention to Khan's past career as a human rights lawyer that included repeated public appearances alongside radical Muslims.</p>
<p>Goldsmith <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/zac-goldsmith-accuses-sadiq-khan-of-giving-platform-oxygen-and-cover-to-extremists-a6983516.html" target="_blank">accused</a> Khan of giving "platform, oxygen and cover" to Islamic extremists. He also accused Khan of "hiding behind Britain's Muslims" by branding as "Islamophobes" those who shed light on his past.</p>
<p>In an <a href="http://www.standard.co.uk/news/mayor/zac-goldsmith-accuses-rival-sadiq-khan-of-giving-platform-to-extremists-a3224246.html" target="_blank">interview</a> with the <i>London Evening Standard</i>, Goldsmith said:</p>
<blockquote><p>"To be clear, I have never suggested he [Khan] is an extremist but without a shadow of doubt he has given platform, oxygen and cover to people who are extremists.</p>
<p>"I think he is playing with fire. The questions are genuine, they are serious. They are about his willingness to share platforms with people who want to 'drown every Israeli Jew in the sea.'</p>
<p>"It's about his having employed someone who believed the Lee Rigby murder was fabricated. It's about his career before being an MP, coaching people in how to sue the police.</p>
<p>"It just goes on and on and on. To pretend those are not legitimate questions, to pretend that by asking those questions newspapers, Londoners or my campaign are engaging in Islamophobia is unbelievably irresponsible.</p>
<p>"It is just obscene that somebody who wants to be the mayor of the world's greatest city, to be in charge of our police and security, should behave not only with such bad judgment but in a way that is totally shameless."</p>
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<p>Goldsmith also drew attention to Khan's ties with Suliman Gani, a Muslim cleric in Tooting, the constituency in South London where Khan is an MP. "To share a platform nine times with Suliman Gani, one of the most repellent figures in this country, you don't do it by accident," Goldsmith said.</p>
<p>Goldsmith was referring to a <i>Sunday Times</i> exposé, which <a href="http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/article1668187.ece" target="_blank">revealed</a> that between 2004 and 2013, Khan had spoken alongside Gani on at least nine occasions, "even though Gani has called women 'subservient' to men and condemned homosexuality, gay marriage, and even organ transplants."</p>
<p>Gani — who has ties to the extremist Islamist group Hizb-ut-Tahrir, and has <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/andyworthington/8679553975" target="_blank">rallied</a> in support of Shaker Aamer, an al-Qaeda terrorist who was detained at Guantanamo Bay — is also linked to the London-based Tayyibun Institute, which the British government <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10763052/Councils-links-to-radical-Islamists-probed-by-No-10.html" target="_blank">says</a> "tolerates or promotes non-violent extremism."</p>
<p>According to the <i>Times</i>, on the night of the Paris attacks in November 2015, Gani appeared at an "Islamic question time" event in Bedford, where speakers reportedly told British Muslims to "struggle" for an "Islamic state."</p>
<p>Khan and Gani first shared a platform in August 2004 at an event organized by Stop Political Terror, a group supported by Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical American imam who was killed in 2011 by a CIA-led drone strike in Yemen. According to the <i>Times</i>, Khan spoke at least four times at events organized by Stop Political Terror, which has since merged with CAGE, a group that<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3389556/Zealots-called-Jihadi-John-kind-notorious-organisation-bitter-public-row-calling-ISIS-killer-beautiful-young-man.html" target="_blank">called</a> the Islamic State butcher Jihadi John a "beautiful young man."</p>
<p>In an interview with the <i>Times</i>, Davis Lewin, deputy director of the Henry Jackson Society, an anti-extremism think tank, <a href="http://henryjacksonsociety.org/2016/02/15/labours-khan-joined-radical-imam-at-rallies/" target="_blank">said</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>"Gani has campaigned on behalf of convicted terrorists, appeared at events designed to undermine government counter-radicalization strategies, including sharing platforms with a pro-terrorist organization such as CAGE, and is said to hold repugnant views about women and the lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans community.</p>
<p>"Given that the UK, and London in particular, is a major target for Islamist-inspired terrorist attacks, it is intolerable to see any politician, much less one seeking such a vitally important office as mayor of London, associate with an individual such as this.</p>
<p>"Mr Khan's reportedly repeatedly sharing a platform with this man, whose views are widely available, is deeply alarming."</p>
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<p>Khan also spent years campaigning to prevent Babar Ahmad from being extradited to the United States on charges of providing material support to terrorism. Ahmad, who admitted his guilt, later <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-35774163" target="_blank">said</a> that his support for the Taliban was "naïve."</p>
<p>In 2002, Khan <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3454560/Sadiq-Khan-defends-legal-work-representing-man-described-white-people-devils-insisting-worst-people-need-defence.html" target="_blank">represented</a> the leader of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan. Khan tried to reverse a decision by the Home Office, which had banned Farrakhan from entering the UK due to fears that his anti-Semitic views would stir up racial hatred. Farrakhan has <a href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=19951013&id=xSAyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OqIFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5082,8790082&hl=en" target="_blank">called</a> Jews "bloodsuckers" and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/29/us/tape-contradicts-disavowalof-gutter-religion-attack.html" target="_blank">referred</a> to Judaism as "a gutter religion."</p>
<p>At the time, Khan <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3454560/Sadiq-Khan-defends-legal-work-representing-man-described-white-people-devils-insisting-worst-people-need-defence.html" target="_blank">said</a>: "Mr. Farrakhan is not anti-Semitic and does not preach a message of racial hatred and antagonism." Khan <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk/1959105.stm" target="_blank">added</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>"Farrakhan is preaching a message of self-discipline, self-reliance, atonement and responsibility. He's trying to address the issues and problems we have in the UK, black on black crime and problems in the black community. It's outrageous and astonishing that the British Government is trying to exclude this man."</p>
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<p>Khan now <a href="http://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/sadiq-khan-i-represented-unsavoury-individuals-but-extremism-claims-are-desperate/" target="_blank">says</a>: "Even the worst people deserve a legal defense."</p>
<p>In 2004, Khan was the chief legal advisor to the Muslim Council of Britain, a group <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/muslim-brotherhood-review-main-findings" target="_blank">linked</a> to the Muslim Brotherhood. Khan defended Yusuf al-Qaradawi, an Egyptian-born Islamist who has been banned from entering the UK. Al-Qaradawi has expressed support for Hamas suicide bombings against Israel: "It's not suicide, it is martyrdom in the name of Allah." According to Khan, however, "Quotes attributed to this man may or may not be true."</p>
<p>Also in 2004, Khan <a href="http://www.standard.co.uk/news/mayor/sadiq-khan-shared-platform-with-five-islamic-extremists-a3231436.html" target="_blank">shared</a> a platform with a half-dozen Islamic extremists in London at a political meeting where women were told to use a separate entrance. One of the speakers was Azzam Tamimi, who has said he wants Israel destroyed and replaced with an Islamic state. Another speaker was Daud Abdullah, who has led boycotts of Holocaust Memorial Day. Yet another speaker was Ibrahim Hewitt, a Muslim hardliner who <a href="http://www.globalmbwatch.com/2014/04/23/uk-muslim-brotherhood-leader-head-school-receiving-taxpayer-money-ibrahim-hewitt-adulterers-stoned-death/" target="_blank">believes</a> that adulterers should be "stoned to death."</p>
<p>In 2006, Khan <a href="http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/6917684/Sadiq-Khan-attended-rally-with-extremist-Muslim-leader-who-threatened-fire-throughout-the-world.html" target="_blank">attended</a> a mass rally in Trafalgar Square to protest the publication of cartoons of Mohammed by Western newspapers. One of those present at the rally was Tamimi, who told Sky News: "The publication of these cartoons will cause the world to tremble. Fire will be throughout the world if they don't stop." Khan <a href="http://www.standard.co.uk/news/mayor/zac-goldsmith-accuses-rival-sadiq-khan-of-giving-platform-to-extremists-a3224246.html" target="_blank">defended</a> Tamimi: "Speakers can get carried away but they are just flowery words."</p>
<p>In 2008, Khan <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3270034/Sadiq-Khan-Labour-s-candidate-London-mayor-filmed-praising-Islamic-TV-station-advocated-marital-rape-violence-against-women.html" target="_blank">gave a speech</a> at the Global Peace and Unity Conference, an event organized by the Islam Channel, which has been censured repeatedly by British media regulators for extremism. Members of the audience were filmed flying the black flag of jihad while Khan was speaking.</p>
<p>Also in 2008, Khan <a href="https://www.fabians.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/FairnessNotFavours.pdf" target="_blank">wrote</a> that Turkey should be allowed to join the European Union in order to prove that the bloc is not a "Christian Club" that discriminates against Muslims:</p>
<blockquote><p>"Muslims across Europe will see the question for Turkish admission to the EU as a clear test of European inclusion. If the door is slammed shut it will be understood by 20 million Muslim citizens of the EU that the basis of the decision to treat Turkey differently to new members like Bulgaria or Romania has been made on the basis that Europe is a 'Christian Club.'</p>
<p>"Some will see this as a clear indication that Muslims can never be a part of the story of Europe or the West. That will undermine everybody working to say that of course one can be British, European and Muslim, or French, European and Muslim."</p>
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<p>In 2009, when Khan was the Minister for Community Cohesion in charge of government efforts to eradicate extremism, he gave an interview to the Iran-backed Press TV. He <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3572015/Sadiq-Khan-branded-unfit-London-Mayor-emerges-called-moderate-Muslim-s-Uncle-Toms.html" target="_blank">described</a>moderate Muslims as "Uncle Toms," a racial slur used against blacks to imply that they are too eager to please whites.</p>
<p>In the same interview, Khan <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3572015/Sadiq-Khan-branded-unfit-London-Mayor-emerges-called-moderate-Muslim-s-Uncle-Toms.html" target="_blank">expressed support</a> for boycotts of Israeli products: "You know, there's nothing wrong, and I encourage people to protest, to demonstrate, to complain, to write into newspapers and TV, to, if you want to boycott certain goods, boycott certain goods — all lawful means open in a democratic society."</p>
<p>In 2012, Khan <a href="http://hurryupharry.org/2012/06/30/fosis-and-sadiq-khan/" target="_blank">addressed and praised</a> the Federation of Student Islamic Societies (FOSIS), an umbrella group founded by activists from the Muslim Brotherhood. The British government has<a href="http://standforpeace.org.uk/federation-of-student-islamic-societies-fosis" target="_blank">criticized</a> FOSIS for promoting Islamic extremism.</p>
<p>In 2014, Khan <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/06/warsi-resignation-right-gaza-israel" target="_blank">expressed support</a> for Baroness Warsi, who resigned from Prime Minister David Cameron's cabinet because she felt that Cameron was insufficiently critical of Israel. In an essay for the <i>Guardian</i>, (which has now been <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/06/warsi-resignation-right-gaza-israel" target="_blank">removed</a> from the Guardian's website) Khan wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p>"Warsi must be listened to when she says, 'our response to [Gaza] is becoming a basis for radicalization that could have consequences for us for years to come' [...] The government's failure to criticise Israel's incursion is not just a moral failure — it goes directly against Britain's interests in the world and risks making our citizens less safe as a result."</p>
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<p>Commentator Anthony Posner <a href="http://jewishmediaagency.com/london-mayoral-election-sadiq-khans-dodgy-dossier/" target="_blank">wrote</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>"Although Khan has assured Londoners that he would not use the mayoral office as 'a pulpit to pronounce on foreign affairs,' one wonders if he would really be able to remain neutral if London was once again dealing with large anti-Israel demos. On the basis of his response to Warsi's resignation, it seems unlikely that he would show restraint."</p>
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<p>In March 2016, Khan was pressured to fire a top aide, Shueb Salar, after the <i>Daily Mail</i> <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3479734/Aide-Labour-s-London-mayor-candidate-Sadiq-Khan-said-Rigby-killing-faked-posted-scenes-sexist-homophobic-comments-Twitter.html" target="_blank">revealed</a>that Salar was sending misogynistic messages on social media: "Along with homophobic and sexist comments, Salar jokes about rape and murder, claims Bengali people 'smell' and said he thought the slaying of soldier Lee Rigby by extremists in 2013 may have been fabricated."</p>
<p>In May, a close ally of Khan, Labour politician Muhammed Butt, <a href="http://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/brent-council-leader-apologises-for-post-calling-israel-a-terrorist-state-like-isis/" target="_blank">apologized</a> for sharing a Facebook post which compared Israel with Islamic State.</p>
<p>In an election debate aired by the BBC on April 18, Khan <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/apr/19/sadiq-khan-regrets-giving-impression-he-shared-extremists-views" target="_blank">said</a> he had "never hidden" the fact that he had represented "some pretty unsavory characters." When asked if he regretted sharing a platform with extremists, he said: "I regret giving the impression I subscribed to their views and I've been quite clear I find their views abhorrent."</p>
<p>Labour MP Rob Marchant <a href="https://inews.co.uk/opinion/im-labour-supporter-i-think-goldsmith-point-sadiq-khans-extremist-links/" target="_blank">said</a> he was worried about Khan's links to extremists, but that he should be given the benefit of the doubt:</p>
<blockquote><p>"While this dabbling with Islamist politics may well have been more to do with a streak of ruthless populism in Khan in building political support, than a genuine meeting of minds with the Islamists, it does cast some doubt upon both his judgement and his values."</p>
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<p>By contrast, British politician Paul Weston, who has long cautioned about the Islamization of Britain, <a href="http://gatesofvienna.net/2016/05/the-innocence-of-sadiq-khan/" target="_blank">warned</a> that Khan's rise is a harbinger of things to come:</p>
<blockquote><p>"The previously unthinkable has become the present reality. A Muslim man with way too many extremist links to be entirely coincidental is now the Mayor of London. I suppose this is hardly a shock, though. The native English are a demographic minority (and a rapidly dwindling one) in London, whilst Muslims from Pakistan and Bangladesh are a rapidly expanding demographic.....</p>
<p>"In a couple more decades Britain may well have its first Muslim Prime Minister, and I think we can safely assume he will be of the same ideological stock as Sadiq Khan.... Reality cannot argue with demographics, so the realistic future for Britain is Islamic."</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.soerenkern.com/" target="_blank"><i>Soeren Kern</i></a><i> is a Senior Fellow at the New York-based</i> <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/" target="_blank"><i>Gatestone Institute</i></a><i>. He is also Senior Fellow for European Politics at the Madrid-based Grupo de Estudios Estratégicos / Strategic Studies Group. Follow him on</i> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/Soeren.Kern" target="_blank"><i>Facebook</i></a><i> and on</i> <a href="http://twitter.com/SoerenKern" target="_blank"><i>Twitter</i></a><i>. His first book,</i> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Global-Fire-Converging-Threatening-Today-What/dp/0736959238" target="_blank"><i>Global Fire</i></a><i>, will be out in 2016.</i></p>
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