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I'm the First London Mayor of 'Muslim Extraction', Boris Johnson Boasts as He Pleads for Arab Investment in the Capital

MAIL ONLINE: Mayor urges Ninth World Islamic Economic Forum to back London / Tells story of great-great-grandfather who made his money in beeswax / Joked that it all went wrong when an American invented the lightbulb / Announces £100million fund to attract tech start-ups from Muslim world

Boris Johnson has boasted of being the first Mayor of London of ‘Muslim extraction’ as he sought to attract billions of pounds of Arab money for the capital.

He told the story of his great-great-grandfather Ahmed Hamdi, a Muslim entrepreneur who made his money in beeswax.

Mr Johnson defended Britain’s immigration policy, boasting that the spirit of openness could be seen in ‘shisha bars’ across the capital.

Addressing the Ninth World Islamic Economic Forum, Mr Johnson urged wealthy figures from across the Arab world to invest in London.

He told them: ‘Let’s build up trade, co-operation and partnership and let us do it in a city that has risen since the days of Offa to become the greatest on Earth.

‘With more American banks than NY, more museums than Paris, less rainfall than Rome and the greatest centre for Islamic finance in the world.’

Mr Johnson drew on his own background to make the case for the capital.

‘I am very proud to be here this morning because I am sure that I am the first Mayor of London of partly Muslim extraction, and indeed the descendant of a Muslim entrepreneur by the name of Ahmed Hamdi.

‘My father’s father’s father’s father - a pious man of Anatolia who made the Haj and who more or less cornered the beeswax market in Istanbul, which was a very good idea because you needed beeswax candles to light the mosques. » | Matt Chorley, MailOnline Political Editor | Wednesday, October 30, 2013

"I Will Make London a Beacon of Islam"
GATESTONE INSTITUTE – International Policy Council: Livingstone's appeal to Muslims may, on May 3, propel him into the mayor's office. Either way, London appears headed for an Islamic future.

Ken Livingstone, the British Labour Party's candidate for mayor of London, says he wants to turn the capital city into a "beacon" of Islam.

Speaking to Muslim worshippers on March 16 at the North London Central Mosque, one of the most hardline mosques in Europe, Livingstone pledged that if elected, he would "educate the mass of Londoners" about Islam.

Livingstone, a self-described socialist who previously served as the mayor of London from 2000 to 2008, declared: "I want to spend the next four years making sure that every non-Muslim in London knows and understands [Mohammed's] words and message. That will help to cement our city as a beacon that demonstrates the meaning of the words of the Prophet."

Livingstone's electioneering tactic may earn him the support of Muslim voters in London. But by speaking at the North London mosque, Livingstone has also succeeded in reviving long-standing suspicions that he is closely linked to Islamic fundamentalists.

The North London Central Mosque, also known as the Finsbury Park Mosque, has a well-established reputation for being a center for radical Islamism in Britain. The mosque was once controlled by Abu Hamza al-Masri, an Egyptian jihadist who is now in prison in Britain for "instigation to acts of terrorism." The Finsbury Mosque is currently being run by the Muslim Association of Britain, an Islamist organization tied to the Muslim Brotherhood as well as the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.

One of Livingstone's main links to radical Islam is through an organization called the Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE), an Islamist group dedicated to changing the "very infrastructure of society, its institutions, its culture, its political order and its creed … from ignorance to Islam." » | Soeren Kern | Friday, March 23, 2012


TELEGRAPH – BLOGS – ANDREW GILLIGAN: Ken Livingstone: I will make London a beacon of Islam » | Andrew Gilligan | Monday, March 19, 2012

Boris Johnson’s Ex-wife’s Marriage to Muslim Shocked Her Family
New love: Allegra Mostyn-Owen with husband Abdul Majid. Photograph: Mail Online
MAIL ONLINE: They may not immediately strike observers as man and wife.

But as the former wife of Boris Johnson is pictured publicly for the first time with her 'secret' toyboy husband, friends say she is 'as happy as Larry'.

Socialite Allegra Mostyn-Owen, 45, stunned her family at Christmas with news of her second marriage, to Abdul Majid, 23.

Apparently they did not react with joy to the fact that she was tying the knot with a Muslim.

Controversially, she has suggested she would be content to be just one of his wives since she realises she may be too old to have his children.

Miss Mostyn- Owen - who was married to London Mayor Mr Johnson from 1987 to 1993 after they met at Oxford University - has revealed her dismay at her father suggesting she had been 'recruited' by Muslim fundamentalists.

She is the only daughter of Italian writer Gaia Servadio and multimillionaire landowner and art historian William Mostyn-Owen.

She said: 'My best friend rang my Dad to say, "Allegra is fine, happy as Larry, just a bit stressed". Do you know what my Dad said?

'Dad goes: "So when was she recruited?" He was talking about terrorism and Islam in one breath!' >>> Sam Greenhill | Saturday, January 23, 2010

Boris Johnson's Ex-wife, 45, in Secret Marriage to Muslim Aged 23
MAIL ONLINE: The ex-wife of Boris Johnson has shocked her family by secretly marrying a 23-year-old Muslim, she announced on Thursday.

Allegra Mostyn-Owen even implied she would be content to be one of several of his wives. Since she is 45, she said she would be happy for her new husband to have children with a younger woman.

They would then live as an ‘extended family’ as sanctioned by the Prophet Mohammed ‘who said it was OK to marry up to four women’, she declared.

Miss Mostyn-Owen was the London Mayor’s first wife. They met when they were students at Oxford and married in 1987, aged 23, but divorced in 1993. She has no children.

She revealed how she stunned her family on Christmas Day by announcing her marriage to the Muslim man – whom she did not name because his Pakistani family ‘know nothing’ of what he has done.

Miss Mostyn-Owen is the only daughter of Italian writer Gaia Servadio and multimillionaire landowner and art historian William Mostyn-Owen.

Describing the scene at Christmas, she said: ‘My mum accused me of spoiling her Christmas and was sure I am heading for a nervous breakdown.

'My older brother also said he would be there for me when I had a breakdown. My father was very annoyed, saying he’d only tolerated “him” – the Muslim – because our relationship had kept me off the booze.

‘Nobody asked his name, whether we were happy, what our plans are and what his livelihood is.’

The society beauty and one-time Tatler cover girl revealed they had married in a mosque and then again in a register office. She said she had not converted to Islam. >>> Sam Greenhill and Tamara Cohen | Thursday, January 07, 2010

Johnson Intervenes to Block BNP Leader from Attending Queen's Garden Party
The toff of toffs: Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, the Mayor of London. Photo: Google Images
THE GUARDIAN: Mayor urges London assembly to rescind invitation to far-right colleague of Nick Griffin to spare monarch embarrassment

The London mayor, Boris Johnson, today intervened to prevent the BNP leader, Nick Griffin, from attending a garden party hosted by the Queen.

Johnson wrote to the London assembly chair, Darren Johnson, urging him to rescind the BNP assembly member Richard Barnbrook's invitation to the Buckingham Palace event in June.

The mayor accused the far-right party of trying to turn the garden party in to a "political stunt".

Johnson's intervention came after it emerged that Barnbrook said he intended to take Griffin to the party as his guest.

Speaking at a routine assembly session with the mayor, the assembly chair said members were "extremely concerned" that the BNP was seeking to turn a social event into a political stunt.

He confirmed he would take the matter to the chief executive to request that Barnbrook's invitation be withdrawn unless he had a "more acceptable guest" to take along. >>> Hélène Mulholland, Matthew Taylor and Rachel Williams | Thursday, May 21, 2009

Boris Cocks-a-snook at the PC Brigade
Waving the flag: The Mayor will raise the Cross of St George over his London headquarters. Photo courtesy of MailOnline
MAIL Online: London Mayor Boris Johnson is to defy the politically correct brigade by staging a week-long festival in the capital to celebrate St George’s Day, with the red and white cross of England’s patron saint flying proudly from his City Hall offices.

The move follows a series of incidents in recent years in which people have been banned from displaying the English flag on the grounds that it is racist and could offend Muslims because of St George’s association with the Crusades.

But Mr Johnson believes such arguments are unjustified and plans a series of events around St George’s Day on April 23 to honour the historical achievements of England and the English. Cripes! Boris's Plan to Celebrate St George (and to Blazes with What the PC Brigade Think) >>> By Simon Walters and Brendan Carlin | Sunday, March 22, 2009

'Brown Is Like a Drunk Who Lost Family Silver Playing Roulette': Boris Johnson's Extraordinary Attack on PM
MAIL Online: The Mayor of London launched an extraordinary personal attack on Gordon Brown's handling of the financial crisis today.

Boris Johnson accused the Prime Minister of behaving like a drunk taking a "frantic and unprecedented gamble" with the economy.

"He is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up by betting the house as well," the Mayor said.

His attack came as City figures warned that the measures unveiled in the mini-budget posed a grave threat to the future prosperity of London.

One said the new 45 per cent tax rate on earnings above £150,000 would trigger a disastrous "brain drain" of the talent drawn to London during the boom years.

In an article in the London Evening Standard today, Mr Johnson's director of strategy, Anthony Browne, writes: "Alistair Darling has done far more to redistribute wealth here than anywhere else... It is almost as though the budget is the revenge of England on the affluent of Kensington and Chelsea.

"Even at first glance, London has little to cheer from this budget. Whatever the macro-economic arguments about a need for a fiscal stimulus to stave off recession, for the capital this is not really a spend now, pay later budget."

The Mayor described the Prime Minister as a "manic meddler" who was desperately trying to boost the economy to improve his own electoral fortunes.

He accused Mr Brown of treating Londoners like "a bunch of overweight and exhausted laboratory rats" who he hoped would do his bidding. >>> By Jonathan Prynn and Pipa Crerar | November 25, 2008

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Boris Johnson: Plans for a Tory Revolution
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: Boris Johnson will launch a Conservative revolution in London this week, introducing a series of reforms as a test-bed for a future Tory government.

The new Mayor, who defeated Labour's Ken Livingstone, will within days pour more police on to the capital's crime-hit streets, and plans to introduce hand-held weapon scanners and knife-detecting "arches" at Tube and railway stations.

He will also move to slash immediately wasteful spending and bureaucracy and order a review of the capital's controversial congestion charge.

The swift initiatives are designed to make London a powerhouse of Tory ideas, with Mr Johnson's administration – the first chance the Tories have had to wield real political power for 16 years – used by David Cameron and his team as the proving ground for a move into government. Boris Johnson's Tory Revolution Plan Revealed >>> By Melissa Kite and Patrick Hennessy | May 4, 2008

THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH:


Powerful Potential of This Pro-Tory Tide: All the signs suggest David Cameron is on course for Downing Street, says John Curtice >>>

THE SUNDAY TIMES:
Boris Johnson Tells Met Chief to Cut Crime – or Else >>> By Isabel Oakeshott | May 4, 2008

LE JOURNAL DU DIMANCHE:
Le succès de Boris le bouffon >>> Par Sabine Limat | Dimanche 04 Mai 2008

LE JOURNAL DU DIMANCHE:
Londres tombe à droite: La débâcle est totale pour les travaillistes britanniques. Il ne manquait plus que la chute de la capitale, après le scrutin du 1er mai qui avait fait basculer nombre de villes dans l'escarcelle des conservateurs. Le résultat est tombé tard vendredi: les Londoniens ont retiré leur confiance au maire sortant Ken Livingstone pour lui préférer l'impétueux Boris Johnson >>> Par Matthieu Verrier | Samedi 03 Mai 2008

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Bouffant Boris, the Unkempt, Eccentric Toff, Wins the London Race!
Photo of Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, the eccentric new Mayor of London, courtesy of Google Images
THE TELEGRAPH: Boris Johnson claimed a remarkable victory in the London mayoral contest on Friday night to cap a disastrous series of results for Gordon Brown in his first electoral test as Prime Minister.

The Conservative candidate's win over Ken Livingstone followed a calamitous showing for Labour at the local elections - the party's worst performance at the polls for 40 years.

Mr Johnson's landmark victory, a result that would have been almost unthinkable six months ago, was the most symbolic blow to Mr Brown's authority on a day that left the Prime Minister facing the gravest crisis of his leadership.

By taking City Hall, Mr Johnson becomes the first Tory politician to hold a senior role in British politics since the party was swept out of power in 1997. His win provided a significant boost to David Cameron's bid for victory at the next general election. Boris Johnson Is the New London Mayor >>> By Andrew Porter and Robert Winnett | May 3, 2008

BBC:
Boris Johnson’s Victory Speech | May 2, 2008

BBC:
The Boris Johnson Story By Brian Wheeler | May 3, 2008

CNN INTERNATIONAL/EUROPE:
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, London's New Mayor Is Eccentric, Offensive >>> | May 2, 2008

LE FIGARO:
Boris Johnson «le bouffon»,
nouveau maire de Londres: L'excentrique candidat conservateur a ravi la capitale britannique au maire sortant Ken Livingstone avec 140 000 voix d'avance. Un échec cuisant pour les travaillistes qui perdent aussi les élections locales >>> | 03. 05. 2008

WELTONLINE:
Neue Konservative sind voll Witz und Exzentrik: Bei den Kommunalwahlen ließen Engländer und Waliser die Labour Partei ganz schön alt aussehen. Premierminister Gordon Brown kommt mit seiner grüblerischen Art nicht an. Die neuen Politstars sind Tory-Chef David Cameron und sein Parteifreund Boris Johnson, Londons neuer Bürgermeister >>> | 3. Mai 2008

NZZ Online:
Britische Konservative feiern den Triumph: Tories streben die Macht in der Downing Street an >>>> | 3. Mai 2008

FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG:
Boris Johnson gewinnt in London: Britische Konservative in Siegesstimmung >>> | 3. Mai 2008

LE FIGARO:
Un échec personnel
pour Gordon Brown: Après moins d'un an à son poste, le premier ministre sort très affaibli de son premier test électoral >>> De Cyrille Vanlerberghe à Londres | 03. 05. 2008

DIE PRESSE:
London: Johnson stößt Livingstone vom Thron >>> | 03.05.2008

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Make Up Your Mind on Islam, Boris! Is Islam the Problem, or Isn’t It?
And if Islam really is the problem, why do you support Turkey’s entry into the European Union?

Photo of Boris Johnson, one of the London Mayor hopefuls, having a ‘bad hair day’ courtesy of Google Images ’Dahling! I haven’t been able to do a thing with it all day!’
THE TELEGRAPH: Boris Johnson was today forced to defend his stance on Islam, insisting he believed it was a "religion of peace".

The Conservatives candidate for London mayor, Mr Johnson, has been criticised for an article he wrote in the wake of the 7/7 London terror attacks in 2005 claiming "Islam is the problem".

But in a televised debate today, Mr Johnson said the problem was extremists taking the words of the Koran out of context.
He said: "The problem is people who wrench out of context quotes from the holy book of Islam, the Koran, and use it to inspire evil in men's hearts.

"That is a fact that few serious people would deny and we need to tackle the extremists." Boris Johnson Defends Stance on Islam in Mayoral Debate >>> By Natalie Paris and agencies | April 21, 2008

THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY:
Boris Johnson: Could I have a word, Boris? The mayoral candidate won't talk to us, his PR people say. So our man chases him all over London to ask why – and to find out where his famous wit has gone >>>

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