UK Lawmaker Claims She Was Sacked as Minister for ‘Muslimness’

British Conservative Party MPs Nusrat Ghani (C), Sir Iain Duncan Smith (R), and UK director of the World Uyghur Congress UK Director Rahima Mahmut at a demonstration call on the British Parliament to vote to recognise alleged persecution of China's Muslim minority Uyghur people as genocide and crimes against humanity in London on April 22, 2021. Justin Tallis/AFP via Getty Images

A Conservative MP has said she was told that she was sacked from her ministerial post because her “Muslimness” was “making colleagues uncomfortable.”

In an interview with The Sunday Times, Nusrat Ghani said when she lost her job as a transport minister in 2020, a government whip told her that “Muslimness” had been raised as an issue at a Downing Street meeting to discuss the reshuffle.