Sadiq Khan ...

[-Talbot-]

I have no interest in London but I would like Sadiq to never again speak in front of segregated audiences. That would make me respect him.

Anything any ABers you would like to add?

[mikey4444]

Prudie...what's a Real Muslim ?

My parents were Real Catholics, but we sometimes had pork sausages on a Friday, and my Mum was on the Pill !

[douglas9401]

A prophet? Careful now Mikey, you'll be landing Jackdaw in a right mess with the faithful making statements like that

[mikey4444]

lol Dougie !

[Prudie]

Well mikey that was the kind of example I was going to give, is that a real Catholic? Can you pick out the bits you like or don't like and still be true to that faith? I don't know, not something I'm involved with.

[mikey4444]

Prudie....yes, I think you can. All religions have their different flavours and habits.

Look at Christianity. I can't think of a better example of multi variants, all sheltering under broadly the same roof. Millions of born-again Christians believe that the earth was created 6,000 years ago, but many millions of other Christians think that is just daft.

All religions around the globe rely on the irrational belief in illogical circumstances, and they all disagree with each other !

[Prudie]

As I said way out of my experience but the Catholic church stills prohibits contraception doesn't it so how can anyone on the pill be a 'real' Catholic? My take on real means follows the true faith.

[mikey4444]

Prudie....Millions of Catholics practise birth control all over the world.

I guess its down to interpretation about constitutes the "True Faith"

[douglas9401]

Mikey, Mikey, Mikey. I think your grasp of this religion thing is tenuous at best.

[Togo]

//and my Mum was on the Pill ! //

It didn't work though ;)

[douglas9401]

Maybe it kept slipping from between her knees, Togo.

[mikey4444]

Dougie......was that meant to be funny ?

[Jackdaw33]

It's an old joke. Lighten up!

[-Talbot-]

Erm ... this isn't about Sadiq the sex symbol or Boris the comedic clown or even Catholics but do feel free to start a thread of your own on those subjects.

Can Sadiq Khan do or say anything to make you think ... 'Good choice'?

Perhaps he could speak out in support of Ahmadi Muslims?

[Prudie]

oops...sorry Talbot
His reaction if London gets a terrorist attack might be a good indicator

[Togo]

//Perhaps he could speak out in support of Ahmadi Muslims? //

Or invite Fred Maroun to give a talk. ( Lebonese Arab now living in Canada)

[-Talbot-]

Khurram Zaki
7 hrs ·
"Sadiq Khan is not a Pakistani. He is a Britisher. Credit for his rise and success goes to his own hard work and the equal opportunity quality of the British system. Pakistan and Islam have played no role in his meteoric rise. And he has proved for all British Muslims and Brits of other ethnicities that anyone who blames that system as biased and discriminatory that they are lazy and liars.
I am celebrating the greatness of Western Secular Democracy. In this day and age of Takfiri Deobandi/Wahabi terrorism and Islamophobia, London has risen above discrimination and bigotry and emerged as great centre of human civilisation setting a great example for the world. Can we ever elect an Ahmadi or Hindu or Christian PM? Forget that, we have deprived all legal powers and discretions of a democratically elected Mayor of the third largest city in the world (Karachi) on the basis of ethnicity.
And it's so stupid and shameful of us Pakistanis that we run down humiliate our own successes like Malala and Sharmeen."


A few hours after posting those words Khurram Zaki was dead ... murdered.

[Mamyalynne]

One can only hope and pray that voices like his and those who have gone before and will come after are one day heard above the gunshots of the cowards who try to silence them.

A long, long journey.

RIP Khurram.

[Lynn_M]

A white, Christian Mayor for Karachi? No, they wouldn't allow it. Only suckers like us would

[mikey4444]

Democracy seems not to favoured anymore in Britain, if a lot of the posts here on AB are to be believed. Khan won and Goldsmith lost.....that is the way of the world, so our Usual Suspects had better just over it.

[Prudie]

Mikey Sadiq Khan would have won just the same if he were a Tory. You really can't make political hay on this topic.
That last post from Talbot relates something truly horrific and the death of Khurram Zaki is as about undemocratic as you can get.