What's the problem with London having a Muslim mayor? I know two big complaints about him as a mayor are his "part and parcel" comments (he actually said that
part and parcel of living in a big city is being prepared for such attacks, which isn't wrong considering every major city's had to have counter-terrorism strategies in place since at least the 1950s) and his "no reason to be alarmed" comments Trump took out of context (he was talking about the
increased police presence), but they both pertain to the job he's doing as an individual. But how is London having a Muslim mayor even remotely related to the UK heading towards Sharia law?
The concern you're raising (treating women like shit, hating gays, etc) is more about integration concerns. And in the UK things could be better, but the Muslim unemployment rate is
9 per cent, higher than average but 91 per cent of British Muslims have jobs (despite the factors cited by that Oxford study). This
headline stat of 40 per cent of UK Muslims supporting Sharia law is misleading because opinions diverge on its application (35 per cent of respondents supported "aspects" of Sharia law - which as a concept is as vast as interest-free loans and killing animals in the most painless way possible, so it doesn't automatically mean these guys automatically support ISIS and their hard-line approach to Islamic law.
Quite the opposite). In Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority country, Muslim groups are
protecting churches from the local crazies. Hell, Indonesia copped one of the biggest Islamic terror attacks in history because the government spoke out against said crazies. These concerns have been raised for centuries about different ethnic groups, and they've always proved overhyped, but most of them have also had teething issues as people get used to living with each other. Which is why the most diverse parts of the UK voted to stay in the EU, they've already gone through those teething issues already and most of their dealings with immigrants of all persuasions has been fine.
That picture wasn't wrong, though Googling that incident only found lots of UK newspapers (and Breitbart) mentioning the same tagging incident. I'd give that about as much weight as
this in the same city.
Anyway, this is a topic I've got no interest in getting bogged down in because it's the kind of area where things get genuinely nasty (Katie Hopkins calling for a "
final solution" was repugnant), and misinformation and hype are in plentiful supply (despite talks of a migrant flood, Germany takes in
fewer refugees than Iran and the US takes in fewer than China, for example. And research firm Ipsos Mori does a "
Perils of Perception" study every year, most recently showing the staggering extent to which people overestimate the Muslim and immigrant populations in their country) so I'm probably going to leave it at that. But I remember talking to an Indonesian girl recently and the abuse she'd been copping even here in NZ was pretty upsetting to listen to, so anti-immigrant hype does have real consequences for real human beings.
