{"id":81578,"date":"2022-01-23T19:45:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T19:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/?p=81578"},"modified":"2022-01-23T19:45:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T19:45:25","slug":"former-british-minister-i-was-fired-because-of-my-islamic-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/81578-former-british-minister-i-was-fired-because-of-my-islamic-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Former British minister: I was fired because of my Islamic faith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"810\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/01\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f2-\u06f0\u06f1-\u06f2\u06f2_\u06f2\u06f3-\u06f5\u06f5-\u06f4\u06f3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-81588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/01\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f2-\u06f0\u06f1-\u06f2\u06f2_\u06f2\u06f3-\u06f5\u06f5-\u06f4\u06f3.jpg 810w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/01\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f2-\u06f0\u06f1-\u06f2\u06f2_\u06f2\u06f3-\u06f5\u06f5-\u06f4\u06f3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/01\/photo_\u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f2-\u06f0\u06f1-\u06f2\u06f2_\u06f2\u06f3-\u06f5\u06f5-\u06f4\u06f3-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Minister of State for Transport in Britain, the current Conservative MP in the country\u2019s parliament, Nusrat Ghani, said she was removed from her ministerial post in 2020 because of her Islamic faith.<br>In an interview with the \u201cSunday Times\u201d newspaper published on Saturday, Ghani, a 49-year-old Pakistani parliamentarian who was ousted from the post of Minister of State for Transport in the Conservative government led by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, made it clear that her &#8220;Islamic religion was brought up as an issue&#8221; during a meeting in Downing Street.<br>According to Ghani, the official said, \u201cHis reality as a Muslim minister made his colleagues feel uncomfortable.\u201d<br>The British MP commented on this, saying: \u201cIt was like getting punched in the stomach. I felt humiliated and weak.\u201d<br>She said she kept quiet because of her warnings that she would face dismissal by co-workers if she continued to raise the issue, which would be a blow to her career and reputation.<br>There was no immediate reaction from Johnson\u2019s office on his comments, but the government\u2019s chief officer for party discipline Mark Spencer said he was the intended person in Nusrat Ghani\u2019s comments.<br>Spencer said on Twitter, \u201cThese allegations are completely false, and I consider them to be defamation. I have never used words that are attributed to me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Minister of State for Transport in Britain, the current Conservative MP in the country\u2019s parliament, Nusrat Ghani, said she was removed from her ministerial post in 2020 because of her Islamic faith.In an interview with the \u201cSunday Times\u201d newspaper published on Saturday, Ghani, a 49-year-old Pakistani parliamentarian who was ousted from the post of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":81588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,31,30],"tags":[831,2769,207,1139],"class_list":["post-81578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","tag-british","tag-faith","tag-islamic","tag-minister"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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