The BBC and the Guardian et al have rather short memories. They have smeared Zac Goldsmith as having run a racist campaign, never mind that his complaint was addressing Khan’s association with extremists, nowt to do with ‘race’, and yet as soon as Khan is elected the first thing the BBC tells us that is noteworthy about Khan’s new found elevation is that…
Mr Khan is the city’s first Muslim mayor
Why is that now so important and yet just hours before they were attacking Goldsmith for being ‘racist’ for questioning Khan’s links to Islamist extremists? As always the Muslim extremist gets a bye from the BBC in the alleged interests of community cohesion.
Khan himself thought his religion was an important factor that needed to be addressed….
Electing Muslim mayor would ‘say something about our confidence as a city’, says prospective Labour candidate Sadiq Khan
Alibhai Brown laughably has the same opinion..
The very fact of a Muslim being in this high office could do more to combat radicalisation than any number of government strategies
Experience tells us the opposite and when Khan has demonstrated a pattern of behaviour that links him inextricably to people who have views that are dangerously close to the Islamist and terrorist narrative you have to ask questions…unfortunately the BBC and Guardian think not and would prefer to brush it all under the carpet and play the race card to silence the critics and win the election for a ‘Muslim’.
Harry’s Place suggests it is entirely legitimate to ask those questions…
In short, Sadiq Khan’s extravagant recent claim that “I have spent my whole life fighting extremism” is entirely false. On the contrary, he has supported extremists, he has aligned with extremists, he has shared their platforms, he has circulated petitions advancing their arguments and interests, he has euphemised their blood-curdling incitement as mere “flowery words”, and he has repeatedly used his position as a human rights advocate and an MP to lend extremists’ arguments a spurious legitimacy.
I assume Khan and Brown are racists for having raised the matter of his religion as a factor in this election?
What else has the good Muslim Mr Khan said that might be of interest to the BBC’s ever-vigilant thought police?
The BBC somehow managed to avoid altogether Khan’s labelling of Muslims who don’t adhere to the terrorist narrative about foreign policy and Western culture as ‘uncle toms’….imagine if that had been a UKIP potential Mayor of London…or even a complete unknown Ukipper from some backwater who said the word ‘negro’…..well you don’t have to imagine because we know exactly what the BBC would do…hang them out to dry and set them up for a campaign of vitriloic smears and insults for months on end. If you’re the Labour, Muslim, candidate to be mayor of London though, you get a free pass on highly offensive, toxic, racist and dangerous language.
Whilst the BBC failed to hold Khan to account for calling moderate Muslims ‘uncle toms’ LBC tackled the problem…or did they?…
Yes. its Newsnight’s appendage, James O’Brien, he of the kangaroo court and Nigel Farage, not so much a journalist as a lying, sensationalist spinner of smears and malevolent mischief. Note how he doesn’t actually take Khan to task about his hate speech but instead sympathises and suggests this is an attack on Khan just like all those other dog-whistle racist attacks on Khan that highlight his association with people with very unpleasant views and ideas.
O’Brien, as good a journalist as ever, the honesty, integrity and professionalism shines through. Just what is it that attracts the Guardian’s Katz to this piece of work?
And what of Mr Suliman Ghani, one of Khan’s platform sharing Islamist cronies? The man the BBC and the Guardian insist is a Tory?
Seems someone was lying…
A ‘brilliant victory’ for one Jeremy Corbyn? Not the words of a Tory voter I might suggest, though the BBC has been convinced, quite easily I imagine, by his lies…
London mayor row: Cleric feels ‘betrayed’ by Conservatives
As has the Guardian…
London mayor: Goldsmith embarrassed as ‘repellent’ imam’s Tory links emerge
Those ‘links’ are entirely spurious and inconsequential. The photo with Goldsmith is obviously a meeting in the street and not evidence of indepth collaboration between the two…unlike with Khan who repeatedly joined forces with Ghani on the same campaigns.
Ghani claims he was invited to be a Tory councillor…but again that is a lie…he turned up at a open event that was intended to increase Muslim participation in politics…he claims he was personally invited but provides no evidence and indeed there is no photo of him as a guest at the event which was one for all and sundry in the Muslim community to turn up to with no regard to political afffiliation.
Ghani puts this forward as evidence of his association with the Tories and that he supposedly campaigned for Dan Watkins in the general election….unfortunately the event was in November 2015 and Ghani, as noted above, had already expressed his admiration for Jeremy Corbyn in September….and of course the election was in May. I guess he is lying about his ‘Tory’ proclivities.
However…we can see what many would describe as evidence of his anti-Semitism…….
Is it anti-Semitic to ask whether Israel has the right to exist? http://ow.ly/4np4Fm
Why would a Pakistani Muslim be against Jewish Israel and yet have no similar thoughts about the legitimacy of a Muslim state built on land stolen from India by Muslims after having driven out millions of Sikhs and Hindus from their land? Right of return anyone?
He is in very good company in the Labour Party just now.
Shame the BBC doesn’t do its job and rather than exposing people with dangerous and unpleasant naratives that have a damaging influence on society the BBC covers up for them and instead attacks those who would dare to expose them such as Goldsmith.
As suggested many times on this site it is the BBC that is one of the great dangers to democracy and civil society, it is the BBC that is extremist…the BBC that advocates open borders and the destruction of the nation state, the BBC that cheerleads mass, uncontrolled immigration regardless of the real consequences, the BBC that supports and excuses terrorism and cheers on ISIS as they destroy the national borders, the BBC that excuses and hides sexual abuse and rape by Muslims, the BBC that excuses and hides Muslim attempts to subvert society and impose their religion upon it as with the MCB’s Trojan Horse plot, the BBC that works to delegitimise Israel and helps to spread anti-Semitism around the world and even excuses murder of Jews because of what Israel did in Gaza.
The BBC is unfit for purpose, a law unto itself with no-one able to control its extremist impulses. It does more harm than good spreading division, hatred and war in its wake.