London Mayor Sadiq Khan has been reelected for a third term in the United Kingdom's capital city.
Khan defeated conservative mayoral candidate Susan Hall with an estimated 45.3 percent of the vote. The newly reelected mayor was roundly booed at his victory presser.
“Khan killed London," one heckler shouted. But Mayor Khan, who is a member of the Labour Party, was unfazed.
“Thank you from the bottom of my heart, thank you, London,” he responded amid the boos.
“It’s been a difficult few months. We faced a campaign of non-stop negativity,” he continued, adding that he wanted to replace “fearmongering with facts, hate with hope, and attempts to divide with unity.”
In a press conference with Khan, vanquished mayoral rival Susan Hall remarked on the surge in knife-crime on Mayor Khan's watch.
"The thing that matters to the most and to me is reforming the Met, making London safe again," Hall remarked. "I hope Sadiq [Khan] makes this his top priority. He owes it to the families of those thousand people who have lost lives to knife-crime..."
A 14-year-old boy named Daniel Anjorin was killed in a brutal sword attack in the Hainault area of London in late April. Also in April, a 16-year-old boy was stabbed in broad daylight in East London, but survived. A 12-year-old schoolboy named Diego Pineiro-Villar was murdered by a homeless man named Edward Crowley in the same month, demonstrating that knife-crime in London is also carried out by non-Muslim immigrants.
As reported by the U.K.'s Office of National Statistics, in the year ending in March 2022, "approximately 4 in 10 homicides were committed using a knife or sharp instrument (282 homicides); a 19% increase compared with the previous year, and the highest annual total since the Homicide Index began in 1946."
There were 69 teenage homicide victims that year, and of these, 51 were killed by a knife or sharp instrument, the ONS notes. By comparison, there were just 28 homicides caused by a firearm in the same reporting year.
Mayor Khan was sworn in to that office in May 2016. The non-U.K. population has doubled from 5 percent to nearly 10 percent of the total population from 2004 to 2021, according to the University of Oxford. Interestingly, foreign-born population levels have plateaued under Khan, who was born in South London to Pakistani immigrants.
India has been the top nation for immigrants' place of birth at 9.3 percent of total migrants, followed by Poland at 7.1 percent, and Pakistan at 4.7 percent. Significant non-European Union places of birth among migrants include Nigeria (3.2 percent), South Africa (3.1 percent), and China (2.5 percent).
"I suspect Sadiq Khan knew perfectly well (because he knows London) that a lot of his voters are people who support the Palestinian cause, and that’s why we’ve seen two-tier policing," political commentator Henry Bolton told GB News.
Khan has routinely distorted the "tolerance" and "diversity" of Muslim refugees from the Middle East who have immigrated to the United Kingdom. “In Islam, we are a very, very, diverse religion,” he claimed.
“Islam celebrates diversity and we celebrate our brothers and sisters whether they are Muslim or they are non-Muslim,” he added. Muslim-majority nations are among the most repressive in the world.
The oppression of Christian and Jewish "infidels," LGBTQ or transgender individuals, and women is commonplace throughout the Muslim-majority world.
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