Moment Green Party councillor shouts 'Allahu Akbar' after being elected in ... trends now
This is the moment a Green Party councillor shouted 'Allahu Akbar' after being elected to Leeds Council as he declared the victory a 'win for the people of Gaza'.
Mothin Ali, who won the Gipton and Harehills seat with 3,070 votes, said in his rowdy victory speech people are 'fed up' of being 'let down' by the Labour council.
He shouted: 'We will not be silenced. We will raise the voice of Gaza. We will raise the voice of Palestine. Allahu Akbar!'
Throughout the video there is arguing between the Green members and the other parties at the count - with people heard swearing and told to 'shut up'.
Mr Ali, who regularly posts videos on his TikTok account, said his phone has been 'ringing off the hook' since the win.
Mothin Ali, who won the Gipton and Harehills seat with 3,070 votes, said in his rowdy victory speech people are 'fed up' of being 'let down' by the Labour council
Mr Ali was one of dozens of candidates who ran on a Gaza ticket at the local elections and managed to defeat a Labour candidate
He has previously made comments on the platform calling Gaza a 'concentration camp' and labelling Israel a 'settler colonial occupier' who are trying to 'erase the legitimacy of the native population'.
The new councillor has said: 'Every single people have a right to fight back, every single people have a right to live free of occupiers.'
He was one of dozens of candidates who ran on a Gaza ticket at the local elections and managed to defeat a Labour candidate.
Despite gains all over England from the Tories in the local elections, Labour lost control of Greater Manchester town Oldham after gains by Independents, some of whom abandoned Sir Keir's party over Gaza.
Naheed Zohra Gultasib held her seat in the Pleck ward of Walsall. The politician was one of six Labour councillors in the local authority who quit the party in November over Sir Keir Starmer's refusal to back a ceasefire in Gaza.
She said in her victory speech: 'This is for Gaza, this is for Palestine. You showed [Labour] that they cannot take your vote for granted.'
Akhmed Yakoob, a pro-Palestinian independent candidate running for West Midlands mayor, secured nearly 20 per cent of the vote in the Birmingham area.
Mr Ali, who regularly posts videos on his TikTok account, has said on the platform: 'Every single people have a right to fight back, every single people have a right to live free of occupiers'
He shouted in the video: 'We will not be silenced. We will raise the voice of Gaza. We will raise the voice of Palestine . Allahu Akbar!'
Labour support plummeted in areas with a high Muslim population across the country.
Wards in council areas with the highest proportion of Muslim voters such as Blackburn, Bradford, Pendle, Oldham and Manchester, showed Labour support dropped by an average of 25 per cent.
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