Donald Trump rips into terrible London Mayor Sadiq Khan over Sharia courts
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US President Donald Trump took a swipe at London Mayor Sadiq Khan during recent remarks in the Oval Office.
He criticised the UK capital’s leadership and raised concerns about the role of Sharia councils in Britain.
“You have places where in the UK you have a terrible mayor of London, terrible, he's an incompetent guy, but you have Sharia courts,” Trump said.
“You don't want Sharia courts. You have Sharia courts adjudicating law.”
In the United Kingdom, Sharia councils operate as voluntary religious arbitration bodies that handle certain civil matters, primarily within Muslim communities.
They do not replace the British legal system and cannot override UK law.
Khan has previously clashed with Trump over issues including immigration and public safety.
You have places where, in the UK, you have a terrible mayor of London, terrible,
he's an incompetent guy. But you have sharia courts. You don't have sharia courts,
you don't want sharia courts. You have sharia courts adjudicating law. So it's very simple.
Immigration, very importantly, immigration and energy.
And you bring it back. Otherwise, you're not going to bring it back.
In fact, I told Scott to cut off all dealings with Spain. First of all,
it started when every European nation, at my request, paid 5%, which they should be doing.
And everybody was enthusiastic about it, Germany, everybody. And Spain didn't do it.
And now Spain actually said that we can't use their bases. And that's all right,
we could use their bases if we want, we could just fly in and use it.
Nobody is going to tell us not to use it. But we don't have to. But they were unfriendly.
And so I told him, we don't want to. Spain has absolutely nothing that we need,
other than great people. They have great people. But they don't have great leadership.
And as you know, they were the only country that in NATO would not agree to go up to 5%.
I don't think they would agree to go up to anything. They wanted to keep it at 2%.
And they don't pay the 2%. So we're going to cut off all trade with Spain. We don't
want anything to do with Spain. By the way, I'm not happy with the UK either.
That island that you read about, the lease, he made it for whatever reason, he made a lease
of the island. Somebody came and took it away from him. And it's taken three, four days for
us to work out where we can land. It would have been much more convenient landing there as opposed
to flying many extra hours. So we are very surprised. This is not Winston Churchill that
we're dealing with. He's a good man, Nigel Farage,
of course, the leader of the Reform Party. And he joins us now from the United Kingdom. Nigel,
lovely to see you, mate. It's been fascinating to watch. And again, after our show goes off the
line, often you'll see live broadcasts on the Reform YouTube page. So I'm right across all
the press conferences you've been doing in great detail in the past couple of days,
including your comments when it comes to Iran. What's your thoughts about what is playing out
and the UK Prime Minister not wanting to be part of it? Well, there's no doubt that the 2015 deal
that was done between America, the European Union and Britain was, look, we'll free up all your
money and you promise not to develop nuclear weapons. What did Iran do? They went on developing
nuclear weapons and they used the freed up money to fund Hezbollah, the Houthis, Hamas and global
terrorism. So, you know, it comes a point, it comes a point when something has to be done.
I do believe that morally what Trump is trying to do, what Israel is trying to do is right. And
just think about this one fact. This regime have executed 5000 gay people. So you would have
thought people on the centre left of politics might think there was a good reason to get rid
of him. The French have stepped up and supported the Americans. The Australian government have
said supportive things. The Canadian government have said supportive things. The Greeks have got
their navy in the Mediterranean effectively to protect a British base on Cyprus. And what have
we got? We've got an absolute loser of a Prime Minister who follows, he doesn't lead, he banned
the Americans from using our bases. Now, he says, OK, you can use our bases. And when he talks about
the activities over the weekend, he keeps saying we were not involved because of international law,
whatever that is supposed to be. And you know something? Much of this is happening because
there is now a growing leftward move in British politics based to quite a large extent around the
vote in this country. And he's terrified of alienating that vote. It is an absolute disgrace.
And it shows you just how far down the world rankings my country is sinking.
Well, and we'll get to the by-election where family voting was part of that particular issue.
But again, the idea that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard is a terrorist organisation,
as declared in Australia, terrorist organisation as declared last week in the EU, but it is not
banned and declared to be such in the UK. They can't even do that. No, they can't. And we had
protests out in the street of London this week, this weekend, sorry, pro-Iranian regime demonstrations
on the streets of London. And a really big one planned for a couple of weeks' time. Even the
European Union, who I've been rather critical of over the decades, even they are prescribing
the IRGC, and yet British governments won't do it.