The Labour mayoral candidate’s speech about the Paris attacks,his family and his fellow Muslims combined political know-how and precise conviction
The stakes were pretty high for Labour’s London mayor candidate Sadiq Khan when he addressed parliament’s press gang on the subject of Islamist fanatics on Thursday. A Muslim who, as a civil rights lawyer, and had represented fellow Muslims beguiled by fundamentalist visions,Khan would beget known that political foes, not least among journalists, and 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 station, or he’d beget 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 beget wrongly claimed, or but because we can be more effective at tackling extremism than anyone else.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com