Donald Trump’s UN attack on London and Sadiq Khan revived an old charge — that Britain’s capital is sliding into “sharia law.” The claim is false as a matter of law, but it draws force from genuine controversies in London: religious councils that disadvantage women, free speech curtailed in the name of public order, and Britain’s catastrophic mishandling of grooming gangs. Speaking at the UN General Assembly, Trump accused London of wanting “to go to sharia law” under its “terrible” mayor Sadiq Khan. Almost simultaneously, the Daily Mail published a long report branding London “the Sharia capital of the West,” highlighting Islamic councils issuing fatwas, discriminatory divorce practices, and a case where a Quran-burning protester was slashed on the street while his attacker was spared

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