Muslim Woman Stabs Member of British Parliament At His First Meeting With Constituency?

It appears that is what happened.

Former UK Treasury Minister Stephen Timms Stabbed

Friday, former UK Treasury Minister and sitting Labour MP Stephen Timms was stabbed by a woman while attending his first advice session with his constituents since the 6th May general election, said officials.

According to police and Labour party officials, injuries sustained by Timms in the attack are not believed to be life-threatening. The Labour party in a statement said Timms was currently recovering at the Royal London Hospital, and is "in good spirits."

The incident happened at the Beckton Globe Library in east London when the former Treasury minister was holding a constituency surgery. Police officials said a 21-year-old woman has been arrested in connection with the attack on the lawmaker, but the motive behind the attack is not yet clear.

"He has been taken to a local hospital with non-life- threatening injuries," the Metropolitan police said in a statement released Friday. "A 21-year-old woman has been arrested and is currently in custody."

Though the police did not provide any further details about the incident, British news agencies reported that Timms was stabbed twice in the abdomen. The suspect arrested in connection with the attack was reportedly an Asian woman with mental health problems.

54-year-old Stephen Timms, who was U.K. chief secretary to the Treasury under former Prime Minister Tony Blair, is currently the member of Parliament for the constituency of East Ham, which he has represented since May 1997. He was first elected to the British parliament in 1994 as a Labour MP for Newham North East.

Timms was the Financial Secretary to the Treasury until the Conservatives took power earlier in the week after successful power-sharing negotiations with the Liberal Democrats. He had secured a remarkable 70% of the vote polled in his constituency in last week's general elections, which saw the Labour party losing ground across the country.

Though the police did not provide any further details about the incident, British news agencies reported that Timms was stabbed twice in the abdomen. The suspect arrested in connection with the attack was reportedly an Asian woman with mental health problems.

54-year-old Stephen Timms, who was U.K. chief secretary to the Treasury under former Prime Minister Tony Blair, is currently the member of Parliament for the constituency of East Ham, which he has represented since May 1997. He was first elected to the British parliament in 1994 as a Labour MP for Newham North East.

Timms was the Financial Secretary to the Treasury until the Conservatives took power earlier in the week after successful power-sharing negotiations with the Liberal Democrats. He had secured a remarkable 70% of the vote polled in his constituency in last week's general elections, which saw the Labour party losing ground across the country.

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Stephen Timms was attacked by the 21-year-old, who appeared to be wearing Muslim dress, at his regular Friday afternoon surgery in his East London constituency.

She lunged at him and stabbed him twice before being wrestled away by a security guard and arrested.Shahid Mursaleen, spokesman for the Newham-based moderate Muslim organisation Minhaj-ul-Quran UK, said: 'We are shocked and saddened to hear that Stephen Timms MP has been stabbed.

'Mr Timms has always been close to his constituency and a friend of Muslims living in east London. He has been a good friend of Minhaj-ul-Quran.

'We wish him well and his recovery to be soon and hope that he can resume his position as MP of East Ham soon.'

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UK SUN contradicts earlier reports of mental health issues:

"The source added the woman was "quite lucid", did not seem disturbed and had no apparent history of mental problems."