{"id":5945,"date":"2017-09-25T11:14:09","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T11:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=5945"},"modified":"2017-09-25T11:14:09","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T11:14:09","slug":"london-mayor-sadiq-khan-says-britain-should-not-host-president-trump-on-state-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/london-mayor-sadiq-khan-says-britain-should-not-host-president-trump-on-state-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"London mayor Sadiq Khan says Britain should not host President Trump on state visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London Mayor Sadiq Khan said on Sunday that it would be wrong for Britain to host U.S. President Donald Trump on a state visit, describing some of the U.S. leader\u2019s views on Islam as \u201cignorant\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Khan and Trump have a history. During the U.S. presidential election campaign, Khan was among many people who spoke out against Trump\u2019s proposed ban on Muslims entering the United States, an idea he said would play into the hands of extremists.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has criticised Khan, accusing the mayor of making a \u201cpathetic excuse\u201d over his statement urging Londoners not to be alarmed by the presence of additional police on the streets in response to an attack in June.<\/p>\n<p>At the annual conference of his opposition Labour Party, Khan told an audience with GuardianLive that he thought having a state visit, which Prime Minister Theresa May has said is still planned, was \u201cwrong\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI sometimes think people are ignorant,\u201d he said, adding that it was his job to educate them.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London Mayor Sadiq Khan said on Sunday that it would be wrong for Britain to host U.S. President Donald Trump on a state visit, describing some of the U.S. leader\u2019s views on Islam as \u201cignorant\u201d. Khan and Trump have a history. During the U.S. presidential election campaign, Khan was among many people who spoke out [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5947,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5945\/revisions\/5947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}