Sir Sadiq Khan hits back at Donald Trump’s Sharia London claim

Sir Sadiq Khan said Donald Trump had shown that he was “racist, sexist, misogynist and Islamophobic” after the president made comments about the United Nations.

Addressing the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, said that London had “a terrible and terrible mayor, and that he was changed, it was so changed”.

He added: “Now they want to go to Sharia law.”

Addressing BBC London, Sir Sadiq said: “People wonder what it is about this Muslim mayor who directs a liberal, multicultural, progressive and successful city, which means that I seem to live without rent in the head of Donald Trump.”

He added: “I think President Trump showed that he was racist, he is sexist, he is misogynist and he is Islamophobic.”

“When people say things, when people act in a way, when people behave in a way, you have to believe them,” he said.

Responding to the president calling him “terrible mayor”, he said that he was “grateful that we have a record number of Americans coming to London”.

He added that different criteria showed that London was “often the number one city in the world with regard to culture”.

The White House was approached to comment.

The Minister of the Cabinet, Pat McFadden, defended Sir Sadiq on Wednesday.

He said that the mayor of London and the American president “had an ox for a few years” and rejected the assertion that London wanted to “go” Sharia law.

He said British law and “no other type of law” applied to the United Kingdom.

Earlier this month, the Minister of Justice Sarah Sackman told Sharia law of the communes that had been “no part of the law of England and the country of Wales”.

While religious courts, including Sharia law, operate in the United Kingdom, most of their work deals with the arbitration of religious marriage and financial issues. The government has been clear that their decisions are not legally binding.

The head of the United Kingdom’s reform, Nigel Farage, said that with President Trump, people should “never take what he says literally, never, but always take everything he says seriously”.

Speaking during an LBC phone, he added: “So it’s just to say that sharia is a problem in London? Yes.

“Is this an overwhelming problem at this stage?

“Did the mayor of London have linked directly? No.”.

He added: “I think what Trump was targeting with his big ground that the West goes to hell is that she risks losing his culture, her inheritance, his identity.”

Sackman had previously declared in Parliament: “Where people choose to put themselves before these advice, in common with the Christian, Jewish and others, which are part of religious tolerance which is an important British value.”

The ecclesiastical courses of the Church of England have jurisdiction over certain aspects of the goods of the Church and criminal conduct by the clergy while the Jewish religious courts, known as Beth Din, are a voluntary religious court where individuals can resolve disputes based on Jewish law.

The Roman Catholic Church exploits courts which consider spiritual problems and marriage cancellations.

This is not the first time that the United States chief has attacked Sir Sadiq.

In 2019, he called the mayor of London, who was re -elected for a third term in 2024, a “cold stone loser”.

In the past, Trump challenged Sir Sadiq to an IQ test and criticized his response to London Bridge’s attack in 2017.

In July, during a visit to Scotland, the president called Sir Sadiq “a nasty person” who had “done a terrible job”.

Sitting next to the president, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer intervened when Trump condemned Sir Sadiq, saying: “He is one of my friends, in fact.”

Earlier this month, President Trump said that he “did not want” from Sir Sadiq to the state banquet organized by the king of the castle of Windsor.

Addressing Air Force One journalists in return in the United States after the state visit, Trump described it as “among the worst mayors of the world”.

Sir Sadiq did not attend the state banquet and the BBC understands that he was not looking for or did not expect an invitation.