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  • 2018-05-10 (xsd:date)
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  • Did London's Mayor Encourage Muslims to Riot During Trump's UK Visit? (en)
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  • On 6 May 2018, the web site Free Speech Time posted an article reporting that London mayor Sadiq Khan, himself a Muslim, had encouraged Muslims to riot during an upcoming visit by U.S. President Donald Trump to the UK: However, the article provided no substantiation for its headline claim, Watch: London Muslim mayor encourages Muslims to riot during Trump's visit to the UK. An embedded interview video excerpt (which was presumably what the headline implored readers to watch) simply captured Mayor Khan stating that I think there will be protests, I speak to Londoners every day of the week, and I think they will use the rights they have to express their freedom of speech. When Khan was asked directly by the interviewer whether he endorsed such protests, he responded by saying, The key thing is this -- they must be peaceful, they must be lawful: Mayor Khan made no mention of Muslims at all, nor did anything that he said in the video or that was reported in the article text support the notion he was inciting Muslims (or anyone else) to riot in protest against President Trump. Khan merely averred that he expected protests to take place, and that if they did, they would have to be conducted peacefully and lawfully. The rest of the article was nothing more than a screed blaming Muslims for high crime rates in European cities and decrying 'Islamophobia' as a word created by the Muslim Brotherhood specifically to silence debate. None of it even mentioned Sadiq Khan, much less documented what the article's headline and opening sentences claimed about him. (en)
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