Is It Right For Marks & Spencer To Sell Young Children's Hijabs?

[anotheoldgit]

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1030681/Marks-and-Spencer-hijabs-school-uniform-range-quilliam-organisation-womens-rights

[Rockrose]

Yes as they are only headscarves, which they already sell in the ladies department.

[dannyk13]

Yes, some Muslim schoolgirls wear the hijab.

[AuntLydia]

Lovely scarf think I'll get myself one

https://www.marksandspencer.com/hijab/p/p22522579?extid=ps_gglpla_Kids_1441744758_55167922526&s_kwcid=AL!2750!3!276132811149!!!g!540004930700!__EFKW__&device=c&cvosrc=ppc%20shopping.google.Kids%20%3E%20School%20Uniform%20%3E%20Essentials%20%3E%20Bags%20&%20Accessories&cvo_pid=55167922526&gclid=CjwKCAjwmJbeBRBCEiwAAY4VVW7Rel3dHB294-ceCs_p8HfDewqf1QCdMnJWMZe1IS4zqaLLF74HzhoCFngQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds&pdpredirect

[Samuraisan]

No I don't, but they are a business and will see a gap in the market and an opportunity. I think they are dreadful, must take some getting used to, be unbelievably hot and uncomfortable, all I can say is poor little girls, how can they do handstands and cartwheels as I see my 8 year old GD doing with her friends? Not quite as bad a feet binding, but what are the men afraid of ? Themselves ?

[anotheoldgit]

Bit more than a headscarf I would say:

https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/1/590x/secondary/hijab-1551572.jpg?r=1539357416614

[youngmafbog]

I don't think this garb fits withour culture but we are where we are and it is not illegal so why not?

[Rockrose]

Perhaps you need a little education anotheroldgit

https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/24118241

[Mamyalynne]

I really can't see why M&S should be banned from selling them, many other outlets will still be available to purchase them from.

[AuntLydia]

If they don't buy them at M&S they will buy them elsewhere. I seriously can't imagine any young child pestering mummy for one of those so the 'choice' argument is deceptive.

[AuntLydia]

Rockrose that looks nothing like the ones being sold in M&S

[woofgang]

its a customer review who suggests sizing for a 4 year old. Should Marks have censored the review?

[anotheoldgit]

Yes it is all wrong for their parents to instil in their little girl's minds, that it is deemed immodest to show their hair.

[AuntLydia]

These must be sold to extremist families because I've seen plenty of young Muslim girls not wearing the hijab. What else are the parents instilling in them I wonder?

[Rockrose]

Because AL its black on a black mannequin by the looks of it - bad photography I suspect

[Rockrose]

/These must be sold to extremist families /
What?
That's such a uneducated comment to make.

[AuntLydia]

Rockrose. I have Muslim tenants, they have three girls age between 5 and 13. They don't wear the hijab, their mother does, but pretty colours and Western style clothes. Any parents that insist a 4 year old wear the hijab must hold extremest fundamental views. Why would they make them do it otherwise?

[anotheoldgit]

Rockrose

No it's not, any parent sending their little girl to school in one of those must be extreme.

[dannyk13]

AOG, Extreme how?

[Rockrose]

I have Muslim friends back in England and their little girls wear them out and about and they are certainly not extremists.

[AuntLydia]

Actually I have to correct my description to Islamic fundamentalists