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Oldham's first female Muslim leader sent death threats, abused in street and has car firebombed in five months since taking up role

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Oldham’s council leader says she has been sent death threats and ‘physically threatened’ since taking up the role. Speaking after MP Sir David Amess was stabbed to death at his constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea, in Essex, on October 15, Coun Arooj Shah said the tragic event had ‘brought into sharp focus the risk we all take when representing our communities’.

The Conservative MP was the second serving representative to be killed in the past five years, following the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox in 2016. READ MORE: Oldham secondary school pupils asked to wear masks again over winter Covid-19 fears She was killed outside a library in Birstall, West Yorkshire, where she was due to hold a constituency surgery.

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