{"id":160,"date":"2016-05-07T16:14:06","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T16:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melangedmaculateme.wordpress.com\/2016\/05\/07\/londons-muslim-mayor-is-nothing-new-1300-yrs-of\/"},"modified":"2023-07-28T16:25:07","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:25:07","slug":"londons-muslim-mayor-is-nothing-new-1300-yrs-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melange.dmaculate.me\/home\/2016\/05\/07\/londons-muslim-mayor-is-nothing-new-1300-yrs-of\/","title":{"rendered":"London’s Muslim Mayor is nothing New: 1300 yrs of Muslims who Ran Major European Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"
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… Muslim heads of major European cities have been a commonplace for nearly 1300 years, and even at the beginning of the 20th century a few Balkan cities still had Muslim governors. Sadiq Khan\u2019s victory is a great one and we should be happy that an Islamophobic and scurrilous campaign against him by the Tories was thwarted by the good sense of Londoners. But let us not exacerbate the weird amnesia of Europe about how central Islam and Muslims have been to its history since the eighth century (when Byzantium, founded by Heraclius in 610, was only a century old itself). Sadiq Khan has many illustrious predecessors among European Muslim urban leaders.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

London’s Muslim Mayor is nothing New: 1300 yrs of Muslims who Ran Major European Cities<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… Muslim heads of major European cities have been a commonplace for nearly 1300 years, and even at the beginning of the 20th century a few Balkan cities still had Muslim governors. 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