Labour: London borough becomes 'Islamic republic'

Left: Voters in Tower Hamlets.

A corner has been turned in the ancient capitol of England.

Lutfur Rahman is now the mayor of Tower Hamlets, thus creating an Islamic state inside the capitol.

The demographics in Tower Hamlets are now so overwhelmingly Muslim, it was virtually a forgone conclusion.

The Daily Telegraph reports - Outside the Wellington Way polling station in Tower Hamlets yesterday, as at many other polling stations in the borough, people had to run a gauntlet of Lutfur Rahman supporters to reach the ballot box. As one Bengali woman voter went past them, we heard one of the Rahman army scolding her for her “immodest dress.”

That incident is perhaps a tiny taste of the future for Britain’s poorest borough now it has elected Mr Rahman as its first executive mayor, with almost total power over its £1 billion budget. At the count last night, one very senior figure in the Tower Hamlets Labour Party said: “It really is Britain’s Islamic republic now.”

For the last eight months – without complaint or challenge from Mr Rahman – this blog and newspaper have laid out his close links with a group of powerful local businessmen and with a Muslim supremacist body, the Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE) - which believes, in its own words, in transforming the “very infrastructure of society, its institutions, its culture, its political order and its creed… from ignorance to Islam.” Mr Rahman has refused to deny these claims.

We have told how the borough’s change from a conventional council leader to a mayoral system came about as a result of a campaign led and financed by these two groups – and how the IFE, in its words, wanted to “get one of our brothers” into the position. Read more

Fraud and corruption by Muslim councillors in Tower Hamlets was exposed in May 2010 in the Dispatches documentary - 'Britains Islamic Republic'. Watch here