[JoshBB]

This thread is a few days old but I'm going to put my comments here anyway. If what she says is true, then that's disgusting because nobody should be prevented into parliament on the basis of their religion, and Labour should be ashamed. But somehow I doubt that the party who elected the first two muslim women MPs is worse for muslims' opportunity than the tories. Labour also has pretty good affirmative action as far as I have researched (and even those against 'positive discrimination' would agree with that), and for that reason I cannot imagine they would actively discriminate against muslim women.