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A British Muslim Labour MP said Wednesday that she had been signed off sick after being subjected to a “sustained campaign of misogynistic abuse and harassment”. Apsana Begum, MP for the Poplar and Limehouse constituency in east London, said she was signed off sick by her doctor earlier this month because the abuse she had received had a “significant effect” on her mental and physical health. “It is hard to have to take time off from my work representing the constituency in which I grew up and live,” Begum said in a statement released Wednesday. Begum said the abuse had been “particularly pain…