Trump is Islamophobic, says London mayor over Sharia law claim

London politician Sadiq Khan called Donald Trump “Islamophobic” and “racist” connected Wednesday aft the US president appeared to suggest the British person wanted to present sharia instrumentality successful the UK’s superior city.

Khan, of the centre-left Labour party, and the Republican Trump person traded insults for years, with the latest enactment stemming from comments the president made astatine the United Nations this week.

“I deliberation President Trump has shown helium is racist, helium is sexist, helium is misogynistic and helium is Islamophobic,” the Mayor of London told Sky News.

During his code to the UN General Assembly successful New York connected Tuesday, Trump said: “I look astatine London, wherever you person a unspeakable mayor, terrible, unspeakable mayor, and it’s been changed, it’s been truthful changed.

“Now they privation to spell to sharia law. But you are successful a antithetic country, you can’t bash that,” helium added, referring to the Islamic instrumentality codification based connected the teachings of the Koran.

Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer has made a sizeable effort to effort to enactment successful Trump’s bully books, including with an unprecedented 2nd authorities sojourn to the UK past week.

Khan said London was apical of galore indicators specified arsenic overseas investment, adding helium was “really arrogant that we are the top metropolis successful the world”.

Earlier connected Wednesday, authorities curate Pat McFadden said Trump was “misreading” London.

Khan, who is Muslim, has been London’s politician since 2016. That twelvemonth helium criticised Trump implicit the then-presidential hopeful’s projected question prohibition for radical from immoderate Muslim-majority countries.

Before Trump’s archetypal authorities sojourn successful 2019, Khan likened Trump to “European dictators of the 1930s and 40s”.

Trump has called Khan a “stone acold loser” and antecedently challenged him to an IQ test.

“I deliberation I’ve got squatters’ rights for the magnitude of clip I’ve spent successful Donald Trump’s head,” Khan told ITV London connected Wednesday.

“I’m conscionable hoping helium doesn’t nonstop maine an invoice for each the clip I’ve spent there.”
AFP

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