Sadiq Kahn Quotes
Language is very important. If you are condoning acts of terror... you are giving credibility to a view that is perverse and is wrong.
Khan, Sadiq. Interview on Sunday Politics. BBC One, 24 May 2015.
Facebook was the most aggressive of the Social Media Web companies at the time in censoring any material that glorified terrorism or terrorist organizations. The problem of course, was the First Amendment rights of the web users to publish and read what they choose. But private firms are not covered by the Bill of Rights—only the government. See {583142} for the message some authorities believed was being transmitted.
A privately produced anti-Muslim video was used by Muslim activists throughout the world to whip up violent protests of the United States, Many people were killed. The President was explaining to world leaders the Western view of the importance of protecting free speech, even that which is blasphemous or hateful. One problem of course is that the Islamic holy scripture, The Koran, requires that a blasphemer be put to death. The Jewish and Christian Old Testament proscribes the SAME punishment, and there have been American Christians who have called for a return to literal Mosaic Law. Also ultra-orthodox Jews in America and Israel. The difference of the West is that literal interpretation of the Bible has been given up and the various Biblical Death penalties (including disobedient children and adulterers) and much of the Muslim world has not. For most of the West, democracy has tempered literal religion. For the Islamic world, literal religion has inhibited and obstructed democracy.
ISISm or Daesh as teh Syrians called it had occupied Mosul and had brutalized and murdered many of the residents enforcing their own extreme version i=of Islamic fundamentalism. The Iraq and Kurdish armies were trying to take Mosul back, but the ISIS fighters were deeply embedded in the large inner city. Dislodging them was very difficult and they took many casualties. The United States provided logistical, tactical, and air support. The Iraqui military had asked for an airstrike on a target and unfortunately about 200 Mosul mcivillians were killrf in the aitstrike. Thisd was one resident's question oif the U. S. Military Advisors. The investigation verified that the strike had inadvertantly killed all those civillians.
Sadiq Aman Khan is a British politician serving as Mayor of London since 2016. He previously was Member of Parliament (MP) for Tooting from 2005 until 2016. A member of the Labour Party, Khan is on the party's soft left and has been ideologically characterised as a social democrat.
