“You can either wage Jihad by the tongue and by the mouth – that is ideological jihad – or by the hand and the sword. Those are the official categories of jihad…..And jihad by the hand and the sword can be done here in France [& the UK] with cars and knives.” BBC
This is a post just to remind ourselves, and to inform the next post, about what kind of person Sadiq Khan is and the lies, hypocrisy and appeasement of Muslim extremism, the playing of the race card, that someone, Yvette Cooper, who might very well be the next leader of the Labour Party, used to deal with those she opposed……and what all this means for Western civilisation, no less.
Sadiq Khan had close links to some extreme-minded people and once said that Muslims who work with the government to tackle Muslim terrorism were ‘Uncle Toms’. Yvette Cooper criticised Corbyn during her bid for the Labour leadership for his links to extremists saying it gave legitimacy to such people…she then proceeded to accuse Zac Goldsmith of racism when he said the same thing about Khan associating in public with extremists.
Here is Cooper in the Telegraph laying into Corbyn….
She is not prepared to stay silent, she says, while Mr Corbyn sends out an ambiguous message about Labour’s stance towards extremism.
Ms Cooper is particularly horrified at the stance he took in support of the hate preacher, Raed Salah. Britain tried to deport him for “virulent anti-Semitism” while Mr Corbyn described him as an “honoured citizen” who should be allowed to stay.
“I think we have to be very firm about the fact that those who are involved in terrorism, or extremism or anti-Semitic abuse, you shouldn’t be legitimising them, or inviting them to parliament, or those kinds of things. The Labour Party should not be associated with Salah in any way.”
All change though…..Here she is attacking Tory Zac Goldsmith for using a tactic he could very well have copied from her….
Zac Goldsmith’s dog-whistle is becoming a racist scream
Anyone who thought the nasty party was dead has been proved wrong by Zac Goldsmith’s desperate campaign for the London Mayoralty.
Rather than try to persuade Londoners with a positive vision, the Goldsmith campaign is increasingly resorting to disgraceful, divisive tactics as the polls show the Tories falling further behind.
What started as a subtle dog-whistle is becoming a full blown racist scream.
Michael Fallon has attacked Sadiq as a “Labour lackey” who supports extremists. And in the last few days we’ve seen Michael Gove, Theresa May, and Boris Johnson each try to link Sadiq in people’s minds with Islamist extremism in different and deeply dodgy ways.
It’s the campaigning equivalent of pointing and shouting ‘don’t vote for him, he’s a Muslim’ – a nasty approach straight from the Lynton Crosby playbook.
Plenty of sensible Tories have been appalled. Baroness Warsi tweeted: “If Sadiq Khan isn’t an acceptable enough Muslim 2 stand for London mayor, which Muslim is?”
Shazia Awan, a former Conservative Parliamentary candidate described the Tory campaign as “‘divisive’, ‘colonial’, ‘sectarian’ and the return of the ‘nasty party”.
Hang on though…..Goldsmith didn’t actually attack Khan for being ‘Muslim’, he attacked him for associating, again and again and again, with extremist Muslims….it was Khan himself who campaigned ‘as a Muslim’…and indeed tried to do so as the anti-extremist candidate…so Goldsmith was right to tackle the hypocrisy and lack of judgement of a man who said he was against extremism and yet who shared the same platform with extremists again and again…..and who called ‘moderate Muslims’ Uncle Toms……so, if anyone, who was the divisive, racist hate monger using ‘fear and innuendo’ to campaign?
Hey @ZacGoldsmith. There’s no need to keep pointing at me & shouting ‘he’s a Muslim’. I put it on my own leaflets. pic.twitter.com/EGeRXlPWAa
— Sadiq Khan (@SadiqKhan) April 11, 2016
And look….guess who else defends Khan….the BBC’s James O’Brien on his LBC radio show….O’Brien dismisses the criticism of Khan’s use of the phrase as a campaign tactic by the Right…..
And who else doesn’t get it as he tries a bit of moral grandstanding but is on slippery ground?
I see Jeremy’s cracked squad is floating the notion of state entities like the military being funded on an optional basis.
Now I take defence rather seriously, so would be in favour.
The BBC’s analysis of such a precedent when applied to, say, Alan Yentob’s pension or yet another diversity director on the payroll in lieu of competent, impartial programming will be interesting.
Or maybe they may just not go there? Awks.
The bend over backward approach to Moslems is shared by the Anglican Church and by the Queen or those who advise her. Priest sacked for objecting to a reading from the koran during the Eucharist that says Jesus is not son of God.
“Baroness Warsi tweeted: “If Sadiq Khan isn’t an acceptable enough Muslim 2 stand for London mayor, which Muslim is?”
None of them,this is a Christian country.
I don’t think that the hard left will relinquish control of the labour party , now that they have taken it over trough the gift of Milliband’s voting rules. Maybe Corbyn will resign after the GE but quite possibly not. Another hard left candidate could well succeed him. As for Yvette Cooper, she would be beloved as a leadership candidate by the BBC but her personality defects and lacklustre campaign style were very evident when she sought to replace Miliband. Yet more good news for the Tories?
I agree. The hard left are very good at seizing power in institutions, such as universities, charities etc. Now that they have taken over the Labour Party, they won’t let go. Corbyn will stay on until another far left nut job can take over.
Rob. I think they have already selected McDonnell as replacement. He is an outright Maoist Marxist. Livingston and Galloway will be back in the fold in double quick time when that happens.
I would not rule out the Emir of London as a future BBC supported Labour leader. He can be left or right, anything the BBC would approve of, and his religion is tops.Pro Brexit, anti Trump. He would restore the Labour vote oop north thanks to the postal vote used by his kind, and sustain support from the London luvvies. Moreover, his dad was a bus driver in case you did not know