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Old 06-07-2017, 08:01 AM
 
Location: Georgia
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Tell that to the victims families. Keep letting the crazies in, and you'll keep getting the same results.
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Old 06-07-2017, 08:02 AM
 
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Thank goodness you pointed out the mayor is Muslim for the .5% of the forum that were unaware.
Someone needs to tell Trump that there's a Muslim mayor in a major city in Canada - Trump can target him next time he's in a bad mood.
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Old 06-07-2017, 08:10 AM
 
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A horrific tragedy for sure, still can't help but ponder how much worse the carnage would have been if the assailants had had legal access to firearms and not just knives and vehicles...
Wow.

Have you forgotten that bombs were used in the Manchester attack? Were they acquired legally?

This attempt to make it about guns is a fail.
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Old 06-07-2017, 08:43 AM
 
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What should he say, "London is a dangerous city and stay home"? Even after 911, people were told to go out and about living their lives, staying vigilant, but not cowering in the corner.
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Old 06-07-2017, 10:09 AM
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Someone needs to tell Trump that there's a Muslim mayor in a major city in Canada - Trump can target him next time he's in a bad mood.
I have never voted for Sadiq Khan and I can't say he would have been my choice as London Mayor, but he has the job at the moment and that needs to be respected.

Khan does have a history and baggage for instance as a Human Rights Lawyer Khan took the case of the US Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakhan, a man who describes white people as devils and who is full of religous htred and bigotry. Indeed Khan managed to get a trave ban imposed by the Home Office overturned.

Sadiq Khan also famously once described moderate Muslims as 'Uncle' Toms in an interview with Iranian Television and there were some links to certain preachers and Islamic Groups, which Khan has now tried to distance himself from. Sadiq Khan even criticised Labour’s decision to suspend Ken Livingstone in 2006 when he compared a Jewish Evening Standard journalist to a Nazi concentration camp guard.

Khan was also closely associated with South London cleric, Suliman Gani, who allegedly “supports IS [Islamic State]” and it was claimed that Khan and Gani shared platforms at least nine times and that Gani appeared at an event in Bedford last November, on the night of the a terror attackin Paris, where speakers called on British Muslims to struggle for an Islamic state. Gani opposes homosexuality and believes women should be subservient to men.

Whilst Khan's former brother-in -law Makbool Javaid was married to Saqiq's sister Farhat Khan until 2011. In the Nineties Makbool Javaid even took part in events in London with the extremist group Al-Muhajiroun .

Sadiq Khan shared platform with five Islamic extremists | London Evening Standards

Exposed: Sadiq Khan's family links to extremist organisation | London Evening Standard

Tories step up attempts to link Sadiq Khan to extremists | Politics | The Guardian

Is it 'Islamophobic' to draw attention to Sadiq Khan's links with extremists - The Spectator

So Iam no avid supporter of Khans and as soon as he is replaced the better, however this pathetic tweeting isn't going to do anyone any good, and risks straining relations between to good allies.

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Old 06-07-2017, 06:36 PM
 
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I have never voted for Sadiq Khan and I can't say he would have been my choice as London Mayor, but he has the job at the moment and that needs to be respected.

Khan does have a history and baggage for instance as a Human Rights Lawyer Khan took the case of the US Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakhan, a man who describes white people as devils and who is full of religous htred and bigotry. Indeed Khan managed to get a trave ban imposed by the Home Office overturned.

Sadiq Khan also famously once described moderate Muslims as 'Uncle' Toms in an interview with Iranian Television and there were some links to certain preachers and Islamic Groups, which Khan has now tried to distance himself from. Sadiq Khan even criticised Labour’s decision to suspend Ken Livingstone in 2006 when he compared a Jewish Evening Standard journalist to a Nazi concentration camp guard.

Khan was also closely associated with South London cleric, Suliman Gani, who allegedly “supports IS [Islamic State]” and it was claimed that Khan and Gani shared platforms at least nine times and that Gani appeared at an event in Bedford last November, on the night of the a terror attackin Paris, where speakers called on British Muslims to struggle for an Islamic state. Gani opposes homosexuality and believes women should be subservient to men.

Whilst Khan's former brother-in -law Makbool Javaid was married to Saqiq's sister Farhat Khan until 2011. In the Nineties Makbool Javaid even took part in events in London with the extremist group Al-Muhajiroun .

Sadiq Khan shared platform with five Islamic extremists | London Evening Standards

Exposed: Sadiq Khan's family links to extremist organisation | London Evening Standard

Tories step up attempts to link Sadiq Khan to extremists | Politics | The Guardian

Is it 'Islamophobic' to draw attention to Sadiq Khan's links with extremists - The Spectator

So Iam no avid supporter of Khans and as soon as he is replaced the better, however this pathetic tweeting isn't going to do anyone any good, and risks straining relations between to good allies.
Thank you for that! I had no idea. I suppose that Trump received this as intelligence and decided to push it out there his way - implying that the mayor is in agreement with extremist views by twisting words.
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