The mayor of London, Saad Khan, rejects Trump’s “fanatical” claims about Sharia in the capital of England

The office of London Municipality, Sadiq Khan, described President Trump’s comments “fanatic”, after the president seemed to claim that London wanted to “go to the law” and the city of “changed” under the leadership of the mayor.

“I must say, I look at London where you have a terrible mayor – a terrible and terrible mayor – and this has changed, it has changed,” said Mr. Trump, during his speech to world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. “Now they want to go to Sharia … both their migration and their suicide energy will be the death of Western Europe.”

While Mr. Trump used the word “they” without clarifying whether Khan and London mean, his comments were echoed by advanced right -wing conspiracy theories on the Internet that link Khan, the first Muslim to elect the mayor of London, to Islamic fundamentalism. There is no evidence that Khan has called for London to formally adopt Sharia, a system of religious laws used in some Islamic countries, but not by the UK government.

“We will not honor his horrific and fanatic comments with a response,” London mayor spokesman told CBS News in an email sent on Tuesday. “London is the greatest city in the world, safer than major American cities, and we are happy to welcome the number of American citizens who are moving here.”

In response, White House spokesman Davis Angel said: “President Trump is right – that is not a long migration to Western countries makes the world a more dangerous place.”

A number of politicians in Britain came to Khan’s defense after Mr. Trump’s comments, including members of the UK Prime Minister Kiir Starmer. Khan is a member of the ruling Labor Party in Starmer.

The UK Minister of Health said in a After x Tuesday. “This is a mayor who is proudly walking, and who stands due to differences in the background and opinion, which focuses on improving our transportation, air, our streets, our safety, our options and our chances.”

Mr. Trump’s statements – which were made in a broader context to criticize the immigration policy in European countries – have revived a dispute between Khan and the president that extends to nearly a decade.

In 2015, Sadiq Khan greatly condemned the candidates at the time Donald Trump after that The name To obtain “complete and complete closing for Muslims who enter the United States” Causes of national securityAfter a terrorist attack in California. Early of his first term, Mr. Trump Go to restrict travel For the United States by residents of many Muslim countries, although it has not explicitly prohibited the entry of the United States by all Muslims.

This initial criticism has led to the colored decline between the two over the years. Only last week, Mr. Trump said that Khan was “among the worst mayors in the world”, and reporters told that he asked Khan not to be the banquet hosted by King Charles III during the state’s visit to the state to the United Kingdom

Mr. Trump often claimed that the crime in London increased dramatically during the Khan period, including in last week’s comments on the correspondents, when he said that the crime in London was “through the ceiling”.

The total crime recorded in London has increased by 31.5 % over the past ten years, with violent crimes increased by 40 %, According to the data of the National Statistics Office in the United Kingdom CBS News Partners were martyred in the BBC. Khan held the position of London mayor in May 2016.

But data from Metropolitan police shows that London is a killing rate of 11.8 per million people in 2024. This makes the murder rate in the capital of England less than a number of major American cities, including Washington, DC, Data he was martyred White House.