“Look, I’m mayor of the greatest city in the world, and one of our strengths is our diversity….The 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.”
In saying these things, Khan is signaling that no discussion of the Islamic jihad threat will be allowed in London, despite the London Bridge jihad attack. Because, you see, such discussion would point to the city’s “diversity” not as a strength but as a weakness, at least insofar as it is home to numerous Islamic jihadists. Such discussion would “divide us,” when we need to be all together, the attackers and their victims.
“Sadiq Khan After Terror Attack: ‘Our Strength Is Our Diversity,’” by Jack Montgomery, Breitbart, December 1, 2019:
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.
“But we do know there are people out there who hate out 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.
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.”
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….
“[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.