Fact Check: Did London Mayor Sadiq Khan Ask Brits To Learn Arabic? No, Viral Claim Is False
The Verdict [False]London Mayor Sadiq Khan never urged his constituents to learn Arabic, and the claim circulating online is false.
The Claim
On November 6, Kelvin Mackenzie, former editor of The Sun, a well-known British tabloid, published a post on X (formerly Twitter), claiming that London Mayor Sadiq Khan urged his constituents to learn Arabic to maintain harmony with immigrants in England.
The claim has been widely shared on Facebook, and one of these posts amassed over 3,300 views. A similar claim was also circulated in 2020. An archive version of the post can be viewed here. In most iterations, the claim was accompanied by expletives directed toward Khan, written in faux-Arabic style font.
However, we found that Khan never made such a claim.
In Fact
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