Sadiq Khan's words on Islamists and Britain were authentic and shrewd

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Sadiq Khan's words on Islamists and Britain were authentic and shrewd

by Dave Hill at the Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/davehillblog/2015/nov/20/sadiq-khans-words-on-islamists-and-britain-were-authentic-and-shrewd

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The stakes were pretty high for Labour’s London mayoral candidate, Sadiq Khan, when he addressed parliament’s press gang on the subject of Islamic extremists on Thursday. A Muslim who, as a civil rights lawyer, had represented fellow Muslims beguiled by fundamentalist visions, Khan would have known that political foes, not least among journalists, had already been sniffing for ways to hang the “extremist” tag on him prior to next May’s election. In the wake of Paris, one perceived equivocation, one word out of place, and he’d have been paying for it until polling day.

Judging by the coverage of his words so far, Khan has emerged from the occasion not only undamaged but fortified. The London Evening Standard majored on his appeal to fellow British Muslims to recognise the threat extremism poses here and to embrace the “special role” they can play in combatting it, “not because we are more responsible than others, as some have wrongly claimed, but because we can be more effective at tackling extremism than anyone else”.



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