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Sadiq Khan invites Donald Trump to meet his family as war of words continues Sadiq Khan invites Donald Trump to meet his family as war of words continues
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Sadiq Khan has invited Donald Trump to meet his wife and teenage daughters in a bid to end their ongoing feud about the Republican frontrunner’s plans to ban all Muslims from America. Sadiq Khan has invited Donald Trump to meet his family in a bid to end their ongoing feud about the Republican frontrunner’s plans to ban all Muslims from America.
The Labour mayor stood by his attack on Mr Trump’s “ignorant” views of Islam, and suggested it would lead to the tycoon losing the White House race in November. Speaking on Good Morning Britain, the newly elected Labour mayor stood by his previous attack on Mr Trump’s “ignorant” views, and said the presumptive Republican nominee should come to the UK to meet his wife Saadiya along with his daughters Anisah and Ammarah.
But Mr Trump called the mayor’s attack “very rude” in an interview with Good Morning Britain, and challenged Mr Khan to an IQ test. He added that Mr Khan had never met him and “doesn’t know what I’m all about." Mr Khan said: "On your programme I invite Donald Trump to come to London. Meet my wife and my daughters. Meet my friends and my neighbours.
A spokesperson for Mr Khan then responded by repeating that Mr Trump’s views were “ignorant, divisive and dangerous”.
But today London's first Muslim mayor offered to host the Republican frontrunner with wife Saadiya and daughters Anisah and Ammarah.
Mr Khan told ITV's Good Morning Britain: "On your programme I invite Donald Trump to come to London. Meet my wife and my daughters. Meet my friends and my neighbours.
"Meet Londoners who are British, they're Londoners, they're Muslim.”"Meet Londoners who are British, they're Londoners, they're Muslim.”
The offer comes after MPs debated a 585,000-signature petition to ban Mr Trump from Britain. He added: "You know the great thing about London? Muslim, Christians, Jews, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, we don't just tolerate each other, we respect, we celebrate, we embrace.
"You know the great thing about London? Muslim, Christians, Jews, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, we don't just tolerate each other, we respect, we celebrate, we embrace,” Mr Khan said live on air.
"And my concern is this. Are you inadvertently making our countries less safe by giving the impression there is a clash of civilisations?"And my concern is this. Are you inadvertently making our countries less safe by giving the impression there is a clash of civilisations?
"Are you doing the job of Daesh and the extremists for them by saying the West hates Islam? I am the West!""Are you doing the job of Daesh and the extremists for them by saying the West hates Islam? I am the West!"
Mr Khan's comments are the latest in an ongoing feud between himself and Trump. On Monday Trump called Khan "very rude" in an interview with Piers Morgan, and challenged the London Mayor to an IQ test.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee has also warned he will struggle to build a “good relationship” with David Cameron after the Prime Minister refused to apologise for branding Mr Trump’s proposals “divisive, stupid and wrong” last year.The presumptive Republican presidential nominee has also warned he will struggle to build a “good relationship” with David Cameron after the Prime Minister refused to apologise for branding Mr Trump’s proposals “divisive, stupid and wrong” last year.
But Number 10 made it clear that David Cameron would work with whoever wins the presidential election in order to maintain the special relationship between the US and the UK. But Number 10 made it clear that David Cameron would work with whoever wins the presidential election in order to maintain the special relationship between the US and the UK.