Monthly Archives: October 2010

Britain Elects Islamic Mayor

By | 2010-10-24T16:43:00-04:00 October 24th, 2010|News|

Barely 25 percent of the East London borough of Tower Hamlets bothered to vote for a mayor this week; at the end, an Islamist candidate was elected. The race was ultimately between Lutfur Rahman, running as an Independent candidate, and Helal Abbas, the Labor Party candidate.