{"id":242879,"date":"2016-05-11T10:13:50","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T10:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/cameron-under-fire-over-zac-goldsmith-disgusting-campaign\/"},"modified":"2016-05-11T10:13:50","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T10:13:50","slug":"cameron-under-fire-over-zac-goldsmith-disgusting-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/cameron-under-fire-over-zac-goldsmith-disgusting-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameron under fire over Zac Goldsmith \u2018disgusting\u2019 campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"80\">\n<p><strong>British Prime Minister David Cameron is under fire over Zac Goldsmith\u2019s London mayoral campaign, after the leader of Muslim Conservatives denounced it as a \u201cdisgusting\u201d attempt to smear Sadiq Khan &#8211; the Labour Party\u2019s winning candidate.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mohammed Amin, chair of the Conservative Muslim Forum, said the Tories\u2019 campaign, which centered on casting Sadiq Khan as an extremist, had \u201cimperiled\u201d Cameron\u2019s efforts to refurbish the Tory brand among Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>In a scathing article on the Conservative Home website, Amin wrote the \u201crisible\u201d campaign had \u201cprobably increased our risks of suffering terrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was disgusted (I considered milder words, but decided to be frank) with the tone of his campaign and his repeated and risible attempts to smear Sadiq Khan,\u201d he said of Goldsmith &#8211; the Conservative Party&#8217;s candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Khan was sworn in as London\u2019s first Muslim mayor on Saturday after a fierce battle with Goldsmith. \u201cI\u2019m so proud&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/05\/08\/464528\/David-Cameron-London-mayor-campaign\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Prime Minister David Cameron is under fire over Zac Goldsmith\u2019s London mayoral campaign, after the leader of Muslim Conservatives denounced it as a \u201cdisgusting\u201d attempt to smear Sadiq Khan &#8211; the Labour Party\u2019s winning candidate. Mohammed Amin, chair of the Conservative Muslim Forum, said the Tories\u2019 campaign, which centered on casting Sadiq Khan as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-242879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}