Posted on 05/10/2016 7:23:14 AM PDT by Rennes Templar
LONDON (AP) London Mayor Sadiq Khan on Tuesday slammed Donald Trump's "ignorant" view of Islam, after the Republican presidential contender suggested Khan could be exempted from a proposed temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States.
Last year Trump proposed "a total and complete" ban on foreign Muslims entering the U.S. "until our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on."
Asked how that policy would affect London's first Muslim mayor, Trump told The New York Times that "there will always be exceptions."
But Khan said "this isn't just about me it's about my friends, my family and everyone who comes from a background similar to mine, anywhere in the world."
"Donald Trump's ignorant view of Islam could make both our countries less safe it risks alienating mainstream Muslims around the world and plays into the hands of the extremists," Khan said in a statement.
Khan, the London-born son of Pakistani immigrants, was elected last week by a wide margin after a campaign that saw his Conservative rival Zac Goldsmith accuse him of having shared platforms with Islamic extremists.
Khan, a former human rights lawyer and Labour Party lawmaker, accused Goldsmith of trying to frighten and divide voters in a multicultural city of 8.6 million people more than 1 million of them Muslims.
The mayor said Tuesday that Trump and people who agree with him "think that western liberal values are incompatible with mainstream Islam - London has proved him wrong."
Trump said he was "happy to see" Khan's election and hoped "he does a good job."
The mayor declined to lend Trump his support.
"I'll be backing the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, who I suspect it will be and I hope that she trounces him," Khan told the BBC.
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Amazing that it would cause flak just to say we want to have a system in place to try to keep terrorists from just walking in as they please.
We really need a President that thinks of America and Americans first! Vote Trump!!
Super PING*
How gracious of him - ponce.
We’ll see how London does under his stewardship over the next few years.
I assure yuo that I am far from ignorant on this vital subject and concur completely with Mr. Trump’s stance on halting immigration of Muslims. My screen name indicates only a small part of my experience and research on this matter: Muslims pose a “clear and present danger” in the sense of that passage in the US Constitution. Anyone who says otherwise is either ignorant or complicit in a terrible crime.
Barely any marched against countless unspeakable acts of violence committed against non-muslims in their name!!
THAT'S ALL I NEED TO SEE TO KNOW THE REAL ISLAM!!!!!!!!!!!
Who are more ignorant on islamic view, your typical dem voters, or trump supporters?
Yeah, I rest my case.
Someone tell us just what Muslims or Islam has accomplished in the 1300 years or so that they have been in existence???
What have they done that is even the least beneficial to the world???
Ignorant?
No, it is well informed after looking at Islam’s death cult history of the last 1400 years.
Its time to put this ridiculous trope to bed.
First, the ongoing appeasement of Muslims has done nothing to stop recruitment of radicals nor their terrorism.
Secondly, applying pressure to the so-called moderates is the only way to get them, the moderates, to apply pressure on the radicals. And that is the only to stop the radicals moving freely w/I the muslim enclaves.
These stupid formulas get endlessly repeated even though they defy common sense. We need to flag it anytime someone trys to roll it out.
London dude has no clue that we was set up.
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I have allot of issues with Trump I think he is a terrible candidate and he is wrong on many issues, but he is right on his views on moslems. Trump calls for a moratorium on moslems, and that is something he did get right.
Ah, yes, coming from the Mayor who, right before this election, called moderate muslims “Uncle Toms.”
40 percent of London residents were born outside the UK.
“London mayor slams Trump’s ‘ignorant’ view of Islam”
Did we low-ball the count of the number of people killed in the name of Islam ((((THIS YEAR ALONE))), or something?
Muslims are the new nazis.
And anyone who doesn’t believe that they must be opposed, just like the original nazis, is truly ignorant.
Texas is being slowly erased like Marty McFly's family photo.
Agreed! Isn’t it amazing how many of the right enemies Trump has? And the stinkpile keeps growing.
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