As is so very characteristic of Islamic supremacists the world over, Khan started this feud, and is now playing the victim and claiming that Trump is motivated by “Islamophobia.” Khan has now claimed: “Let’s be frank, the reason I was singled out was not because of any other reason than my faith.”
The Trump/Khan conflict began in January 2017, when Khan attacked Trump’s travel ban on several countries that could not or would not provide adequate information about the people wishing to enter. Khan said: “I am quite clear, this ban is cruel, this ban is shameful, while this ban is in place we should not be rolling out the red carpet for President Trump.” The following month, Khan declared: “President Trump can’t silence me….We stand in solidarity with all those who are discriminated against because of their nationality, their faith or their background.”
After a jihad massacre in London in June 2017, Trump tweeted: “At least 7 dead and 48 wounded in terror attack, and Mayor of London says there is ‘no reason to be alarmed!’” Two years later, in June 2019, Trump tweeted: “@SadiqKhan, who by all accounts has done a terrible job as Mayor of London, has been foolishly ‘nasty’ to the visiting President of the United States, by far the most important ally of the United Kingdom. He is a stone cold loser who should focus on crime in London, not me.”
So it looks as if Trump has criticized Khan for being blasé after a jihad massacre, for being personally unkind to him, and for neglecting London’s skyrocketing crime rate.
What in that is singling Khan out for being a Muslim? Nothing, of course. The same charges can be made against others, and Trump has made them; he has many times criticized New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, who is not a Muslim, for being soft on crime. So on what does Khan base his claim that Trump only criticized him because he is a Muslim? Nothing except the always-salient fact that it will play well with his base.
“Sadiq Khan: Trump singled me out ‘for no other reason’ than being Muslim,” by EJ Ward, LBC, November 9, 2020:
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has told LBC he was singled out by the now-outgoing US President Donald Trump “for no other reason” than being Muslim
Speaking to LBC’s James O’Brien just days after Joe Biden won the race to the White House in the US Presidential Election, the Mayor said
James asked Mr Khan how he felt when Donald Trump attacked him personally putting him under an “astonishingly ugly spotlight.”
“Bring [sic] a Muslim ain’t easy, it isn’t easy,” Mr Khan said, adding “it’s never been harder to be a Muslim than the last four years.”
Expanding on what he meant, the Mayor told LBC that the world had “for the first time the leader of the free world, a mainstream politician perpetuating a view that Islam and the West are incompatible.”
He went on to say that President Trump had perpetuated a view that “all of us must be bad, or must be terrorist because of the actions of a very small minority.”
“Let’s be frank, the reason I was singled out was not because of any other reason,” he said, “than my faith.”
The Mayor of London said this led to Muslims around the world “carrying an additional weight” due to the actions and words of Donald Trump.
He added that many across the globe were not happy with the way Donald Trump treated minorities and people who were different to him….