Sadiq Khan: A story of first immigrant Muslim London mayor

Islam is considered as the religion of peace.  But in the current prospect of Islam, especially for the activities of Islamic State (IS) and other extremist groups, Islam is now considered as the religion of killing and terrorism in the western world. The people of western world thrilled even by the name of Islam as some extremist groups have spread fear by the name of establishing Islam all around the world. Amid all these fear and despair to Islam, a Muslim Pakistani immigrant to London Sadiq Khan, 45 years old has been elected as the first Muslim Mayor of London as Labour's candidate, who will be in charge of the UK's capital city for the next four year.  
The newly elected mayor, Sadiq Khan did not have a privileged start in life. He was one of eight children born to Pakistani immigrants, a bus driver and a seamstress, on a south London housing estate.  From an early age, he showed a firm resolves to defy the odds in order to win success for himself and the causes important to him."Son of a bus driver" became one of the most hackneyed phrases in Mr Khan's time on the stump - so overused in his leaflets and speeches that he was eventually forced to make fun of his own campaign, joking he had given the Daily Mirror an "exclusive" on his background.  But his parents' story holds real significance for him. Amanullah and Sehrun Khan emigrated from Pakistan to London shortly before Sadiq was born, in 1970. He was the fifth of their eight children - seven sons and a daughter.  
He lived with his parents and siblings in a cramped three-bed roomed house on the Henry Prince Estate in Earlsfield, south-west London, sharing a bunk bed with one of his brothers until he left home in his 20s.  He attended the local comprehensive, Ernest Bevin College, which he describes as "a tough school - it wasn't always a bed of roses". The nickname "Bevin boys" was at that time in that part of south London a byword for bad behaviour. He was an able student who loved football, boxing and cricket - he even had a trial for Surrey County Cricket Club as a teenager. He has since spoken about the racist abuse he and his brothers faced at Wimbledon and Chelsea football matches, saying he felt "safer" watching at home and became a Liverpool fan simply "because they were playing such great football at the time".
He studied maths and science at A-level with the idea of becoming a dentist. He was switched on to law by a teacher who told him "you're always arguing" - and by the TV programme  LA Law, starring Jimmy Smits as Victor Sifuentes, a charismatic partner in a California law firm.
He studied law at the University of North London and put his degree to good use straight away, becoming a trainee solicitor in 1994 at Christian Fisher under the human rights lawyer Louise Christian."LA law was about lawyers in LA who do great cases, act for the underdog, drove nice cars, look great and I wanted to be Sifuentes," Mr Khan told Business Insider recently.Officers in his Tooting constituency in London have been put on high alert, and will respond 'extra-quick' should an incident be reported at his home. Photographs of his childhood show his family standing proudly outside their council home and another shows him waving a union flag and wearing a crown on the day of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in 1977. He is Labour's first mayor since Ken Livingstone, who he used to help advise, but has fought to distance himself Red Ken's politics and also Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.  
Lawyer Mr Khan wooed his fellow-lawyer wife of 22 years Saadiya over Filet-O-Fish in a Croydon McDonalds and nights at a nearby cinema.The pair wed married in 1994 and now have two teenage daughtersThe first  Muslim mayor is the proud son of a Pakistani-born bus driver who considers himself so liberal he backed gay marriage and even launched his campaign in a pub. The Labour MP also put tackling terrorism and 'rooting out its cancer' at the heart of his election manifesto and pledged to put the capital on a 'war-footing from day one'.Mayor Khan was helped into City Hall by Tory rival Zac Goldsmith's campaign, which was even branded 'racist' by his own party after he claimed Labour 'thinks terrorists are its friends'.
Khan appeared on platforms several times with Tooting imam Sulaiman Ghani, who was first described as an ISIS supporter by Andrew Neil on a programme on April 18,  reported BBC.The allegation, which has been denied in the strongest possible terms by Ghani, was then repeated two days later by David Cameron during Prime Minister's Questions.
Ghani released a statement the next day, leading to Neil issuing a formal apology, while Ghani has threatened legal action should Cameron repeat the remark, which was said in the Commons and is therefore protected by parliamentary privilege.
It is revealed this year that in 2009 he supported groups promoting Islamic extremism and gave a speech while the 'black flag of jihad' was openly flying in the hands of children, reported MailOnline.
This week he apologized for calling moderates Muslim groups 'Uncle Toms' on Iranian-backed Press TV, also in 2009, a slur used by black people to suggest that members of their community are subservient to whites. Despite this the father-of-two has himself suffered death threats from Islamists who despite this the father-of-two has himself suffered death threats from Islamists who hate him for being too liberal, especially because he voted for same-sex marriage. Mr Khan has already faced claims about his dealings with extremists during the campaign to succeed Boris Johnson as mayor.
He also admitted a Fatwa on his head made him consider getting bodyguards for his solicitor wife Saadiya, and their two children Anisah and Ammarah, 16 and 14. because he feared their lives were also in danger. He has dismissed Tory attacks as 'smears', and insisted that he was a moderate Muslim.But Mr Khan's former brother-in-law, Makbool Javaid, preached hatred against non-Muslims at a rally in Trafalgar Square - with the 'black flag of jihad' flying behind him.  And he suspended his Commons-based speechwriter after he laughed about seeing homosexuals being abused in public, and made reference to 'hoes' and 'f***ing f****ts' - on a Twitter feed followed by the Labour mayoral hopeful.
Shueb Salar, who has represented Mr Khan at public events, continued to post them after he started working for Mr Khan in the run-up to last year's General Election.
Among the messages Mr Salar posted on Twitter was 'advice to anyone who's looking to murder their girlfriend and get away with it LOL'. The acronym stands for laugh out loud.Mr Khan arrives at City Hall with a CV including two ministerial jobs under Gordon Brown after he served as junior minister first at the Department for Communities and Local Government and then at the Department for Transport.He has been an MP for more than a decade, representing the south London constituency of Tooting, and entered politics after a first career as a human rights lawyer - work which drew aggressive attacks from Zac Goldsmith throughout the campaign.On the eve of the election, Mr Khan returned to the council estate where he grew up and tweeted: 'I'll be the council estate boy who fixes the Tory housing crisis.'  
And explaining what he would offer London and what it had given him, Mr Khan said before the election: 'The Khan story is a London story.
'My grandparents left India to go to Pakistan. My parents left Pakistan to come to London.'In the interview with The Economist, he continued: 'I will be in the first generation of Khans not to be an immigrant.'London gave me and my family a chance to fulfil our potential: I went from a council estate to helping running a business to a transport minister attending cabinet.'The Tories have come under fire - even from their own side - for running a 'racist' campaign against the new London mayor.It is noted that Sadiq Khan, an information technology expert, is quite popular in London and has already declared his 10-point plan for the capital of  England.