22 February 2012

How "Islamic" government works in London

Rabina Khan, Lutfur Rahman’s cabinet member for housing, penned a sharp attack today on the Evening Standard’s recent series of articles about the electoral roll shenanigans in Tower Hamlets, the Sharia-tinged administration of which she is part.

Ms Khan claimed that linking Lutfur with Islamic extremism was “simply risible.” Perhaps she's forgotten that Lutfur lost a complaint on this precise subject against me and this newspaper at the Press Complaints Commission recently.

The PCC ruled that it was "not misleading" to describe Rahman as “closely linked” to the extremist Islamic group, the Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE), who control the East London Mosque. [telegraph.co.uk] Read more