{"id":968,"date":"2015-05-10T05:59:29","date_gmt":"2015-05-10T05:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/968-13-muslim-mps-elected-in-britain\/"},"modified":"2015-05-10T05:59:29","modified_gmt":"2015-05-10T05:59:29","slug":"13-muslim-mps-elected-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/world\/968-13-muslim-mps-elected-in-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"13 Muslim MPs elected in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.1599998474121px; line-height: 15.8079996109009px;\">A record of 13 Muslim Members of parliament, up from 8 in 2010, have been elected in one of the most unpredictable and extraordinary general elections in Britain. Eight of these Muslim\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 12.1599998474121px; line-height: 15.8079996109009px;\">M<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.1599998474121px; line-height: 15.8079996109009px;\">embers of parliament<\/span>\u00a0are women<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.1599998474121px; line-height: 15.8079996109009px;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.1599998474121px; line-height: 15.8079996109009px;\">A record of 13 Muslim Members of parliament, up from 8 in 2010, have been elected in one of the most unpredictable and extraordinary general elections in Britain. Eight of these Muslim\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.1599998474121px; line-height: 15.8079996109009px;\">M<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.1599998474121px; line-height: 15.8079996109009px;\">embers of parliament<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.1599998474121px; line-height: 15.8079996109009px;\">\u00a0are women.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The election included the first Muslim m<span style=\"font-size: 12.1599998474121px; line-height: 15.8079996109009px;\">embers of parliament<\/span>, Tasmina Ahmed Sheikh, elected in the landslide by the nationalist party in Scotland\u00a0as well as the first female Muslim Conservative\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 12.1599998474121px; line-height: 15.8079996109009px;\">m<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.1599998474121px; line-height: 15.8079996109009px;\">ember of parliament<\/span>\u00a0Nusrat Ghani.<\/p>\n<p>While Labour votes fell away, four Muslim candidates won seats for the first time for the opposition party and added to five who were re-elected. Anas Sarwar in Glasgow was the only Muslim\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 12.1599998474121px; line-height: 15.8079996109009px;\">m<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.1599998474121px; line-height: 15.8079996109009px;\">ember of parliament<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most surprising was mental health campaigner Naz Shah winning Bradford West back for Labour with a majority of 11,420 against Respect party leader George Galloway who had won the seat in a landslide bi-election in 2012. Of the total of 13 Muslim\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 12.1599998474121px; line-height: 15.8079996109009px;\">m<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.1599998474121px; line-height: 15.8079996109009px;\">embers of parliament<\/span>, six are women.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A record of 13 Muslim Members of parliament, up from 8 in 2010, have been elected in one of the most unpredictable and extraordinary general elections in Britain. 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