London has elected its first Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, after a campaign dominated by issues of religion and ethnicity

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London has elected its first Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, after a campaign dominated by issues of religion and ethnicity

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/07/world/europe/britain-election-results.html?emc=edit_na_20160506&nlid=60392743&ref=cta

LONDON — Sadiq Khan, a son of a bus driver from Pakistan, was declared the winner of London’s mayoral election on Saturday, becoming the first Muslim to lead Britain’s capital at a time of rising Islamophobia in the West.

The victory of Mr. Khan, a former human rights lawyer and a Labour member of Parliament, makes him one of the most prominent Muslim politicians in the West. It was also his party’s biggest boost in a series of elections on Thursday in which Labour further lost its grip on Scotland, once a stronghold, and clung, in some cases just barely, to seats in England and Wales.

Mr. Khan won with 56.8 percent of the vote, versus 43.2 percent for Mr. Goldsmith, according to the city’s election body. The results were not final until Saturday morning because in London’s system voters are allowed a first and second preference, and Mr. Khan had not won an outright majority in the first round.

In his acceptance speech, Mr. Khan said that the mayoral election “was not without controversy” and added that he was “proud that London has today chosen hope over fear and unity over division.”

“I hope that we will never be offered such a stark choice again. Fear does not make us safer, it only makes us weaker and the politics of fear is simply not welcome in our city.”

London, a global center of finance, is hardly representative of Britain: About a quarter of its residents are foreign-born, and an eighth are Muslim. And Mr. Khan is not the first Muslim to win a prominent office in Europe: Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, has had a Muslim mayor since 2009, and a Muslim Conservative lawmaker, Sajid Javid, is the British secretary of state for business.

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Glad to see fear mongering hasn't infected everyone yet...

[MacUK 983]

I'm just glad Paul Golding didn't get anywhere

I'll miss Boris's special brand of peculiarity though

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God is Great

Now Londoners can spend weekends watching gay people thrown off of Big Ben and the public executions will absolutely rejuvenate stuffy British TV

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God is Great

Now Londoners can spend weekends watching gay people thrown off of Big Ben and the public executions will absolutely rejuvenate stuffy British TV

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia

https://www.amnesty.org/en/countries/asia-and-the-pacific/indonesia/report-indonesia/

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia

https://www.hrw.org/report/2016/03/21/living-hell/abuses-against-people-psychosocial-disabilities-indonesia

Human Rights Watch found that in seven private institutions, healing centers and pantis (government social care institutions) visited, persons with psychosocial disabilities lived in severely overcrowded and unsanitary conditions. In Panti Laras 2, a social care institution on the outskirts of the capital, Jakarta, approximately 90 women live in a room that can reasonably accommodate no more than 30. There was no space to walk; to enter the room one had to physically tiptoe over the hands and feet of the women crowded together on the floor. Overcrowding contributes to a high prevalence of lice and scabies. Healing centers are similarly overcrowded as they are small, often dilapidated, and traditionally built as part of the healer’s home.

In the traditional or religious healing centers, personal hygiene is a serious problem as people are chained and do not have access to a toilet. As a result, they urinate, defecate, eat, and sleep in a radius of no more than one to two meters.

God is Great

[Jacque67 7,328]

London Rocks!!!!!!!!!

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https://www.hrw.org/report/2016/03/21/living-hell/abuses-against-people-psychosocial-disabilities-indonesia

Human Rights Watch found that in seven private institutions, healing centers and pantis (government social care institutions) visited, persons with psychosocial disabilities lived in severely overcrowded and unsanitary conditions. In Panti Laras 2, a social care institution on the outskirts of the capital, Jakarta, approximately 90 women live in a room that can reasonably accommodate no more than 30. There was no space to walk; to enter the room one had to physically tiptoe over the hands and feet of the women crowded together on the floor. Overcrowding contributes to a high prevalence of lice and scabies. Healing centers are similarly overcrowded as they are small, often dilapidated, and traditionally built as part of the healers home.

In the traditional or religious healing centers, personal hygiene is a serious problem as people are chained and do not have access to a toilet. As a result, they urinate, defecate, eat, and sleep in a radius of no more than one to two meters.

God is Great

He must be. They say love will conquer all.

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Glad to see fear mongering hasn't infected everyone yet...

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I'm just glad Paul Golding didn't get anywhere

I'll miss Boris's special brand of peculiarity though

I'll actually take Khan over Boris any day.

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I'll actually take Khan over Boris any day.

Being someone who only does London in small doses, was there for 5 days last weekend and that was a few days too many, I find BoJo amusing. The Gods alone know what he ever did for London but you can't deny he's fun.

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Glad to see fear mongering hasn't infected everyone yet...

LOL hasnt affected us

[ready4ONE 5,400]

And yet Londoners chose not to put Britain First. I'm sure that it is comforting to know that there are like minded souls on the other side of the pond though.