London Mayor Sadiq Khan has warned that Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for US president, is “doing the job” of extremist groups like Daesh (ISIL) through his “ignorant” and “divisive” views on Islam.
Khan, a Muslim, and Trump have been engaged in a war of words over the White House hopeful’s proposal that all Muslims be banned from the United States.
“By giving the impression there is a clash of civilizations, are you doing the job of Daesh and extremists for them by saying the West hates Islam,” he said on ITV’s Good Morning Britain on Tuesday.
“The vast majority of Muslims are law abiding, peaceful,” Khan said. “I accept there are a small minority of people who do bad things, they are terrorists, they are criminals, using the name of Islam to justify what they do.”
Khan argued that his election as the first Muslim mayor of a major Western capital showed “hope trumps fear” and “unity trumps…