British Right Accused of ‘Racist’ Campaign to Stop London From Getting Its First Muslim Mayor

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As London’s mayoral race heats up, David Cameron’s party faces accusations of using a Muslim candidate’s heritage against him to stoke fears of terrorism.

Sadiq Khan has been accused of being unfit to become London's next mayor
after video footage emerged of him describing moderate Muslims of being
"Uncle Toms". [Report]

Times of Ahmad | News Watch | UK Desk
Source/Credit: The Daily Beast
By Nico Hines | May 4, 2016

LONDON — London is expected to become the first Western capital with a Muslim mayor this week despite an increasingly desperate and divisive Conservative campaign against him.

A former Conservative Party candidate for the House of Commons told The Daily Beast that Prime Minister David Cameron and his party were running “a purely racist campaign” against human-rights lawyer and prospective London mayor, Sadiq Khan.

“The Conservative Party are fighting Sadiq Khan for being a Muslim and not fighting him for being Labour,” said Shazia Awan. “What they are doing is fundamentally wrong.”

Awan, who has worked alongside Conservative leaders including Cameron, William Hague and Margaret Thatcher, said she was heartbroken to see the party stoop to racial division.

After Khan took a commanding lead in the opinion polls, Zac Goldsmith, the Conservative candidate, and his allies began to paint Khan as a “dangerous” radical with links to Islamic extremists.

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