Sadiq Khan, the Muslim mayor of London, and a tireless apologist for Islam, had his usual reaction to the latest murders by Muslim terrorists in “the greatest city in the world.” For Sadiq Khan, the defense and promotion of “diversity” has become an obsession. Last summer Sadiq Khan earned the outrage of many Londoners for his expensive focus on this “diversity”; they discovered he now spends annually close to $2 million on”diversity” bosses for London Transport, far more than he does on employees devoted to keeping fares down, or on improving safety in the system.
Here’s Khan’s latest praise of “diversity”:
London mayor Sadiq Khan told reporters that diversity is one of the British capital’s strengths in the wake of the London Bridge attack, and that all great cities are targets for terrorists.
“Look, I’m mayor of the greatest city in the world, and one of our strengths is our diversity,” he told reporters shortly the attack by Usman Khan, a convicted radical Islamic terrorist who had been freed from prison on a tag after serving less than half of a 16-year term, which left two dead and three injured.
This insistence that “diversity is our strength” is the byword not just of Sadiq Khan, but of many European politicians, and above all, of Chancellor Merkel. It is stated as a given; no evidence need be offered. But why should we accept this assertion? Is all “diversity” a “source of strength”? What kind of “strength”? Start asking these questions, and you will not get a coherent answer, but merely self-satisfied repetition of the mantra that brooks of no disagreement. In Seoul, in Beijing, in Tokyo, in Warsaw, in Budapest, there is precious little diversity, and no one in those cities appears to be longing for it to arrive, so that those capitals can be more like the London of Sadiq Khan. London’s “diversity” finds its expression not just in the terrorist attacks that fill Londoners with anxiety, but in the crime wave of stabbings by Muslim criminals, in the “greatest city in the world.” The “diversity” that the 3.5 million Muslims have brought to Great Britain includes, as well, the grooming gangs in a dozen of its cities that have led to the ruined lives of tens of thousands of English girls, the victims of “diversity” whom Sadiq Khan appears not to have noticed.
“But we do know there are people out there who hate our diversity, hate what we stand for, and are trying to seek to divide us”, he added — although his grounds for appearing to suggest that terrorists despise Britain for being diverse were unclear.
Who are the people who are taught to “hate our diversity”? Surely it is the Muslims themselves, who read Qur’anic verses that describe them as “the best of peoples” while non-Muslims are “the most vile of creatures”? Why should Muslims wish to have anything to do with such people? The Qur’an further instructs them not to take Christians or Jews as friends, for “they are friends only with each other.” The doctrine of Al-wala’ wa-l-bara’ (Arabic: الولاء والبراء) is a concept in Islam, literally “loyalty and disavowal,” which signifies loving and hating for the sake of Allah. This type of love requires Muslims to love those who are obedient to Allah and to defend and assist them, and to hate those who are disobedient, which means all non-Muslims.
Muslims are thus taught not to integrate into a non-Muslim society, but instead are instructed in more than a hundred Qur’anic verses to fight, to kill, to smite at the necks of, to strike terror in the hearts of, non-Muslims. Is such a population a source of “strength” for British society, or is it, rather, a source of physical danger and societal disarray? We know the answer to this: look at the London that Sadiq Khan has helped create, and what his cherished “diversity” has meant to the social fabric, and to the physical safety, of Londoners.
Mayor Khan then flirted with controversy with a statement echoing an earlier, infamous former claim of his with respect to terror attacks — i.e. that “part and parcel of living in a great global city is you’ve got to be prepared for these things” — by telling reporters: “Look, I know, speaking to colleagues around the world, mayors of other great cities, that we’re all targets for terrorists.”
So according to Mayor Khan, terrorism is something you’ve just got to accept, it’s the price we all pay for the privilege of living in a great city, we just have to prepare ourselves, there’s nothing much else to be done.
Some critics of the Mayor of London have suggested that such attacks only appear to be a feature of life in cities such as London, while in a relatively homogenous place like the Japanese capital of Tokyo they are exceedingly rare — although not entirely unknown….
Quite right: there are many homogeneous cities whose inhabitants are not impressed with those in the West celebrating “diversity”; they do not want it for themselves, and have made great efforts to prevent such “diversity” from being imposed on them. “Non-diversity” – homogeneity of the populace – is seen as a source of societal strength and safety in Seoul, Beijing, Tokyo, Budapest, Warsaw. What would Mayor Khan urge the Mayor of Tokyo to do – let in a million Muslims so Tokyo’s residents can enjoy the same benefits of “diversity” that Londoners do? Not a chance.
“[T]he message I want to send… is we are resolute, we stand united in the face of terrorism, and we will not allow anybody to divide us,” he insisted.
Who are “we” who “stand united”? Surely not those who are taught in their holy book to despise, hate, fight, and strike terror in the hearts of those who do not belong to the same faith? Sadiq Khan says “we stand united in the face of terrorism.” Has he taken a poll of Muslims? How does he know that they are “united in the face of terrorism” when they are told in several Qur’anic verses to “strike terror in the hearts of the Unbelievers”? And what are Muslims to think about terrorism when Muhammad himself, the Perfect Man and Model of Conduct, boasts in a hadith that “I have been made victorious through terror”? And how does Sadiq Khan know that “we [the British] are resolute…united in the face of terrorism, “and we will not allow anybody to divide us”? Haven’t the bombs and knives of murderous Muslim terrorists done quite enough already to “divide us”?
Here’s what we have in Sadiq Khan: a mayor who has presided over the greatest crime wave in London’s modern history; there are now more murders – mostly by stabbing – in London than in New York. The rate of criminality among Muslims in Great Britain far exceeds that of native British or that of other, non-Muslim immigrants. Don’t bother Mayor Khan with talk of Muslim terrorists and grooming gangs and stabbings on London streets. Sadiq Khan doesn’t need to present evidence; he’s the mayor of the greatest city in the world and he knows that “one of our strengths is our diversity.” But with each new atrocity committed by Muslims who have been prompted by the Qur’an, ever fewer British – despite the pollyannish views about “diversity” that they are constantly fed by the media and many politicians aside from Mayor Khan — are prepared to believe him. That growing disbelief is a welcome sign of mental health.