Osman 🇹🇷🇬🇧🇵🇰

"Sadiq Khan is mayor of London, not Kabul. His job is to serve all communities, not just Muslims." I've had this thrown at me in so many replies so let me address it. For me, and for the majority of British Muslims, Islam comes first. I know Brits will find that hard to fathom because they don't take religion seriously, but we do. So if Islam comes first that means Islamic rules come first. And Islamic rules dictate that Muslims cannot partake in or promote LGBTQ lifestyles, alcohol and nightclubbing, all of which Sadiq Khan promoted yesterday fresh off the plane from Hajj. Doing this directly contravenes Islamic law and endangers your relationship with God and your afterlife. Now I agree that Sadiq Khan was elected to serve all Londoners and not just Muslims. And that is exactly why I have always been against Muslims taking high political office in the West. You will be constantly pressured to compromise your Islam and sometimes that pressure will become unbearable, so it's simply not worth it if you're a believing and practising Muslim. If we need political allies in high places it's much better to have sympathetic non Muslim allies who we don't have to hold to an Islamic standard. So ultimately it comes down to priorities. I believe that no Muslim should publicly partake in or promote anything that goes against Islam. What they do in their private lives is none of my business, but when they transgress in the public sphere we have the right to hold them to an Islamic standard according to what Allah has revealed.

This Pride Month, London stands with our LGBTQI+ communities here and around the world. I look forward to seeing hundreds of thousands of Londoners and visitors taking to our streets in celebration and solidarity for Pride in London on Saturday, 4 July.

An explosion at a busy market in Sarai Naurang in Pakistan’s Lakki Marwat district has killed at least nine people and wounded 30 others after a bomb-laden rickshaw detonated near shops. Authorities blame TTP fighters amid rising violence. Al Jazeera's Kamal Hyder reports.

This is a video before the formal declaration of the results where the candidates are first told of the result, sadly my Labour opponent didn’t bother turning up and refused to congratulate me. I still want to thank him for his service these past four years and wish him well for the future. Now we turn the page.

Will you Choose him again ?

Turkiye Discloses YILDIRIMHAN ICBM With Mach 25 Speed and 6,000-Kilometer Range This marks a significant milestone in Ankara's strategic deterrence capabilities.

Life goes on in Iran...

Asim Munir wants to play peacemaker. He may end up with war.