Fox's Perino: London’s New Muslim Mayor Is “Not Like ISIS”

Dana Perino: “He’s Not Like ISIS … This Is Not Like What People Conjure Up In Terms Of Islamic Leaders”

From the May 11 edition of Fox News’ The Five:

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DANA PERINO (CO-HOST): I do congratulate [London’s newly elected Muslim] mayor. He's had a lot of firsts. He was born in London, his parents had immigrated from, they’d gone from India to Pakistan in 1947, and then his dad was a bus driver. His mom was a seamstress. He grows up, he becomes a lawyer. And he was actually -- he's not the kind of, he's not like ISIS, right? So this is a guy who got, I think got arrested or at least, no there's a fatwa called against the mayor because he supported gay marriage. So this is not like what people conjure up in terms of Islamic leaders. So I think what happens here is that you're going to see more of this because they felt, as a whole, as a religion, that they were punched in the face. So as Donald Trump says, he likes to punch back ten times harder. Not that the mayor and the president of the United States, the mayor of London and the president of the United States, aren't ever necessarily going to interact on policy at all. So this is kind of unnecessary and unfortunate. But I do think that he's the kind of moderate Muslim leader that we should try to emulate and have more of around the world.

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