Does even London’s notorious Muslim mayor, Sadiq Khan, really believe this? IPT News reported Monday that Khan “praised Tehran for being ‘ahead of us in terms of combating the coronavirus. I congratulate the Iranian officials for this.’”
Khan apparently made this spectacularly risible statement in a video conversation with Tehran Mayor Pirouz Hanachi. According to a Tehran Times report, Khan also promised to “discuss the problems that Tehran is facing due to sanctions” with British officials, “and I hope that this is solved in the near future.”
IPT noted laconically that “Iran has been overwhelmed by coronavirus cases, with more than 90,000 people infected and nearly 6,000 reported dead. There is widespread skepticism that Iran is grossly under-reporting the true casualty rate.”
Yes. And Khan has every reason to know that. His congratulating Iran is of a piece with the relentless push we see everywhere: Muslims, we’re told, invented virtually everything that has made life in the contemporary West comfortable. Muslims, our moral superiors constantly insist, established tolerant and pluralistic societies while Europeans were still painting themselves blue and living in caves. In virtually everything, we are told again and again that Muslims are ahead, Muslims were first, Muslims blazed the trail.
One notorious example of this came last October, when the jihadi mouthpiece Al Jazeera reported happily about “a major exhibition in London’s British Museum called Inspired by the East, that explores the significant – yet often unacknowledged – influence of Eastern culture on the West.”
The Museum invited visitors to “discover centuries of art inspired by the Islamic world,” and co-curator Julia Tugwell said: “People might forget that there has been an exchange between East and West for centuries, much longer than we think and while, of course, some of that has been warfare, a lot of it has been diplomatic relations and artistic exchange. Looking at this through an artistic medium and showing how there has been this interest in the ‘other’ from both directions over the years shows that there has been an ongoing dialogue.”
Not to be outdone, Catherine Futter of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City added: “We still see Islamic arches and patterns incorporated into architecture and perhaps we see them so often they seem part of our currency and we have forgotten their sources – whereas in the 19th century they would have seemed far more unusual. One of the things that is exciting about this exhibition is that it is highlighting that important contribution to art, culture, science and technology made by the Islamic world.”
Neither Tugwell nor Futter explained how any Islamic influence on Western art was severely limited by the fact that Sharia forbids representation of the human form. Or would any discussion of that reflect negatively upon Islam and Sharia, and so is forbidden to be stated?
Does the British Museum have any plans to host an exhibition on how Western art influenced the Islamic world, a topic about which there is a great deal that could be said, ranging from the cultural appropriation of Byzantine church architecture to the stylistic similarities of Shi’ite iconography to Western art? The answer to both questions is “of course not.” The Inspired by the East exhibition was just another example of the British intelligentsia’s ongoing efforts to compel Britons to be ashamed of their own culture and heritage, and to think of Islamic culture as antecedent and superior to their own. It was just more of Britain’s ongoing cultural suicide. And hardly anyone, of course, even noticed.
There is an all-out effort to make Westerners think not just that Islam is another one of the world’s great religions, but that Islam, Islamic culture, Islamic history, and Islamic mores are superior to those of the West. And so why shouldn’t London’s Muslim mayor claim that the Islamic Republic of Iran is ahead of Britain in combating the coronavirus? It’s all part of the ongoing effort to render Britons complacent and ashamed to resist what is being done to their free society in the name of multiculturalism and pluralism. This will, as they say, not end well.
Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He is author of 19 books, including the New York Times bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His latest book is The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process. Follow him on Twitter here. Like him on Facebook here.
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China is the real one to blame, Iranians are just dying in droves because of the rotten Mullahs.
Pompeo: ‘Enormous Evidence’ Coronavirus Originated in Wuhan Lab
Pompeo is right, and past news report have been confusing. Reports say that US Intel claims it was “NOT MAN MADE”. But the real story goes like this: A US-Wuhan team found the Covid-19 virus in bat poop in a cave in China. The US group found it could infect humans directly, so they called it a ‘ticking time bomb’. Fauci helped give the grant for that research. The Wuhan labs tried to make the virus more potent, so the US team eventually bailed. Then the Covid-19 virus was released into the public, and it started infecting people in Wuhan. The rest we all know.
So, yes, the Covid-19 virus is NOT man made, because no modifications were needed to weaponize it. It was already pretty nasty, and it could infect humans directly. And that’s where Pompeo steps up, to clarify that China is still to blame, because they worked to find a dangerous virus, released it into the public in Wuhan, and then covered it up.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/05/03/pompeo-enormous-evidence-coronavirus-originated-in-wuhan-lab
Less is better!
Call me a Muslim immigration minimalist.
A parasitic feral animal yard ape muslim will always praise his fellow muslim with lies as all muslims are worthless and criminal!!!! GB is lost and the EU is following very quickly.
He’s the winner that thinks terrorism is part and parcel of living in a big city.
Why do the trashiest people get into the Labour or Democrat party?
Look at “Fingers” Biden in the US. Trash!
Because the left is the only one who will have them?
Hard to believe the people of London voted this Muslim piece of garbage to be their mayor! What is wrong with them??? He should be tarred and feathered and hung!
The majority of Iranians beg to have western influences reinstated in their country. Western influences including democracy, freedom, liberation, to dress as they wish, to pray or not to pray, not be accused and tried in a kangaroo court, women showing their hair, and a western view they had before the “revolution”. Yes, the shah was authoritarian, but there was more humanity by him than the present religious overlords.
But don’t tell this to the enlightened elitist sharia mayor of London. He would call your racist for contradicting his views.
So why do these bad politicians keep getting elected to office, and what’s worse, keep getting re-elected again and again?
Is he suggesting that thanks to his intervention Iran is doing better than GREAT BRITAIN?
The mullahs in Iran have become so adept at propaganda that they make the Soviets look like a bunch of pikers.
Iranians are dropping out like flies because the only place they are adept and technologically savvy is nuclear thuggery.
Does the good Mayor comment on how many thousands of Iranians have died drinking methanol in the mistaken belief that it is effective in treating Covid-19 infections?
All Wuhan-Covid victims are due to the CCP mass murderers, and each victim is a loss of a human being with all it’s miserable consequences.
However – whether in US, UK, Europe, Africa, Iran etc. – the mortality rate isn’t higher than during an Influenza epidemic.
Of course the countries conditions of hygienic, the knowledge of adequate measures, the capabilities to diagnose the causes of deaths, and the validity of “publications”, are not the same – which explains the discrepancies.
London’s mayor is human garbage, same like the CCP, the Democrats.
We need to get rid of those enemies in our countries.
Why he was at it he should have congratulated North Korea as they were well ahead of everyone. Totalitarian police states tend to have this in common, funny that!
As if more evidence was required to hang this sc*mbag as a traitor to the UK.
If he’s so in love with Iran, why doesn’t he move there? It’s a lie.. how can a country that has some of the most horrific hygienic standards based on their culture, how can the mortality rate for COVID be low?
Londoners probably voted in this guy because they wanted to show how progressive and welcoming to muslims they are… They’re so welcoming they’re wiping out their culture…
Moslems vote in blocks.
That’s how this filthy little b*st*rd got in.
“Moslems vote in blocks.”
Yeah, they become the swing vote, which makes them dangerous.
Exactly!
That’s how they get all their filth into positions within local/national government etc.
nothing but a khan job
The COVID death rate in UK exceeds 15%. This is a stunning condemnation of their national health care system.
London’s Muslim Mayor Khan couldn’t care less. He was raised in a culture that worships death and misery.
ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES. LESSON LEARNED.
The only thing they are “good” at is date picking, tent making, camel racing, goat-humping, head-chopping, pedophilia, bomb making and the death and destruction of anything good and wholesome. In other words, there would be NO art, medicines, modern conveniences, applîances, autos, planes, radios, phones…NOTHING but shiite-hole, 3rd world tribal grievances and constant wars. Nice legacy….????????
++MAGA2020!++????
What a “genius” Khan job is! He forgot to mention the BEST country is DPRK which claims NO cases…LOL????
What else do you expect from a filthy moslem???