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On 5 May 2016, Sadiq Khan was elected mayor of London, England, making him the first Muslim mayor of a major Western capital. On 11 May 2016, the web site 100% Fed Up claimed Khan threatened Donald Trump with terror attacks should the United States ever implement his proposals to bar Muslims from entering the country: 100% Fed Up cited a 10 May 2016 Daily Caller article that also suggested Khan warned Trump: Daily Caller, in turn, cited yet another article as its source, a 10 May 2016 Telegraph that also asserted that Khan warned Trump that his proposed policies would incite violence. However, the comments attributed to Khan in that piece neither warned nor threatened Trump: In his comments, Khan speculated that Trump's policy proposals would sow division and fuel extremism, but the comments in no way warned or threatened him. London's new mayor specifically said that such policies would make both the UK and the United States less safe, and that Trump's positions might cause relationships between mainstream Muslims (not extremists) and the West to deteriorate. No part of Khan's comments could be construed as a threat. In November 2015, Trump was embroiled in controversy after fumbling an answer to a question about whether Muslim-Americans ought to be registered or wear badges. On 7 December 2015, Trump issued an official statement via his web site calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on (archived here): In response to the policy, supporters of Trump claimed that President Jimmy Carter had banned Iranian immigrants and that a 1952 law prohibited Muslims from entering the United States. On 12 May 2016 Trump walked back his December 2015 statement, claiming that the ban hasn't been called for yet and that it was only a suggestion.
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