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May 16, 2016

Sadiq Khan’s Reassuring Words about Islam: To be Taken with a Grain of Salt

Doublespeak about mainstream Muslims.

London’s first Muslim mayor, the newly elected Sadiq Khan, is himself no Islamist, and in his public statement has made a habit of distinguishing those he calls “mainstream Muslims” from the “hardliners”; in recent years he has also come out as a supporter of gay marriage and even chastised the Labor party for the anti-Semitic tendencies of many of its members. Nonetheless, Benjamin Weingarten writes, Sadiq’s views give one pause:

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