> The mocked-up article says Khan had announced at a press conference that people travelling for a medical emergency or “prayer for the minority religions” would not have to pay the charge even if their car was heavily polluting.
> Khan is Muslim, with Islam identified as one of the faiths supposedly exempt. “Which religion do you think Seditious Khant has left out of his exemptions from ULEZ?” one tweet viewed over 200,000 times said.
The criticism of Khan over the past few months has seemed pretty unhinged. If Uxbridge has taught that latching onto misinformation around ULEZ and Khan is the route to just doing badly rather than incredibly badly, we probably shouldn’t be surprised that their mysterious backers are going to be prepared to spend huge amounts of money (£44,000 on just one campaign according to the article) to amplify that misinformation.
In a way, it’s comforting to find out that so much of it is coming from fake accounts if the alternative is that the angry, red-faced men who think that ULEZ is part of a Muslim conspiracy were actually sincere in their views!
I’ve heard that ULEZ takes your first child as a sacrifice.
I expect that we’ll see far more of this in the run-up to the Mayoral election in May, unfortunately. The Tories have tried in election after election to make personal attacks against Khan by referencing his religion – Zac Goldsmith’s campaign tried to accuse him of supporting terrorists and of being a “radical,” and now Susan Hall is attacking him as a misogynist, clearly all meant as anti-Muslim dog whistles. The Tories may or may not be behind these tweets as well, but they certainly will do nothing to discourage or oppose them.
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> The mocked-up article says Khan had announced at a press conference that people travelling for a medical emergency or “prayer for the minority religions” would not have to pay the charge even if their car was heavily polluting.
> Khan is Muslim, with Islam identified as one of the faiths supposedly exempt. “Which religion do you think Seditious Khant has left out of his exemptions from ULEZ?” one tweet viewed over 200,000 times said.
The criticism of Khan over the past few months has seemed pretty unhinged. If Uxbridge has taught that latching onto misinformation around ULEZ and Khan is the route to just doing badly rather than incredibly badly, we probably shouldn’t be surprised that their mysterious backers are going to be prepared to spend huge amounts of money (£44,000 on just one campaign according to the article) to amplify that misinformation.
In a way, it’s comforting to find out that so much of it is coming from fake accounts if the alternative is that the angry, red-faced men who think that ULEZ is part of a Muslim conspiracy were actually sincere in their views!
I’ve heard that ULEZ takes your first child as a sacrifice.
I expect that we’ll see far more of this in the run-up to the Mayoral election in May, unfortunately. The Tories have tried in election after election to make personal attacks against Khan by referencing his religion – Zac Goldsmith’s campaign tried to accuse him of supporting terrorists and of being a “radical,” and now Susan Hall is attacking him as a misogynist, clearly all meant as anti-Muslim dog whistles. The Tories may or may not be behind these tweets as well, but they certainly will do nothing to discourage or oppose them.