Sadiq Khan Compares Migrant Hotel Protests to ‘Hate Crime and Extremism’ – Guido Fawkes

Sadiq Khan Compares Migrant Hotel Protests to ‘Hate Crime and Extremism’

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Sadiq Khan has today linked protests outside asylum hotels with “hate crime and extremism.” To think Guido was worried Khan might not stick his foot in it this week…

In a press release this morning the London mayor announced “fresh investment to fight hate crime and extremism in London.” Khan is allocating £875,000 for various projects and learning initiatives on the topic. That includes funding for “Tech Against Terrorism” to “deliver schools-based workshops helping students to recognise harmful and radicalising content online.”  In the press release Khanm adds:

“The action comes as anti-migrant hotel protests are becoming more common place in the capital and arrests for those aged 17 and under for terror related offences in the UK remained high, with 43 arrests in the last year.”

Khan goes on to attack X for failing “to act on 97 per cent of posts calling for violence against migrants or Muslims that are reported to the platform” and claims “the Mayor’s investment encourages Londoners to continue to celebrate our diversity and reject hateful and divisive narratives.” Susan Hall, leader of the City Hall Conservatives, said he should apologise:

“This tells you everything you need to know about the Labour Party’s attitude to illegal migration and stopping the small boats – it is disgraceful to conflate peaceful protest and freedom of speech with extremism. Clearly the Mayor should apologise.”

The campaign against migrant hotel protests in full swing…