UK: This Muslim is running for London mayor

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It appears from the poll results mentioned he has a good chance at winning.”  Admin

London, a city where Muhammad was the most popular name given to newborn baby boys last year, could soon elect its first Muslim mayor.

On Friday, the U.K.’s main opposition Labour Party selected Sadiq Khan, a former government minister and a Muslim of Pakistani descent, as its London mayoral candidate.

Khan has mixed his Muslim faith with progressive politics, supporting same-sex marriage while at the same time personally keeping to the Islamic ban on alcohol.

Missing from much of the media coverage of Khan’s mayoral candidacy is that he served as chairman of the socialist Fabian Society and currently sits on the radical group’s executive committee.

The Fabian Society says it seeks to help advance what it regards as an evolutionary transition from capitalism to socialism through gradualist democratic efforts instead of violent revolution. The British Labour Party was founded by Fabian socialists, and the Fabian Society remains one of 15 socialist societies affiliated with the Labour Party.

Socialist treatise

In 2008, Khan penned an 86-page pamphlet for the Fabian Society titled “Fairness Not Favours: How to Reconnect with British Muslims.”

WND reviewed the pamphlet in full.

In his socialist treatise, Khan made the case for British Muslims to be the recipients of more public welfare programs. He advocated increases in universal measures such as child benefits and a rise in the national minimum wage as ways to aid the British Muslim community.

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