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A new mayor in London: opinion of Polish people in the UK? [317]
A fellow Pakistani-British, long time colleague of Sadiq Khan, new mayor of London, wrote that about him:
"During London's '90s Islamist heyday, Sadiq Khan's brother-in-law Makbool Javaid was affiliated and listed as a spokesman to the now-banned terrorist group al-Muhajiroun, founded by the hate preacher Omar Bakri Muhammad, and then led by the infamous fanatic Anjem Choudary.
I knew of Makbool back then, too. His brothers were colleagues of mine, affiliated to my former extremist organization, Hizb ut-Tahrir.
Through such connections Khan ingratiated himself in the London Islamist scene.
In 2003, he appeared at a conference alongside Sajeel Abu Ibrahim, a member of that same banned al-Muhajiroun.
Sajeel ran a camp in Pakistan that trained the 7/7 bomber Mohammad Sidique Khan. Speaking there, too, was one Yasser al-Siri, who had been convicted in Egypt over a political assassination attempt that left a young girl dead."
Author: Maajid Nawaz, jailed for planning terrorist attacks during the 90s and whose was a client of then lawyer Sadiq Khan, now mayor of London.