i am of the firm belief that Naomi is right, it's largely political, with that point in mind, please explain why the authorities are fighting fires on several front, those Muslims who say it's their culture to have separate classrooms, girls being told not to sit with the boys, that their place in school, university is at the back of the classroom, or university debates
not being allowed to sit alongside a male, that mosques don't have shared praying, that many of these cultural influences have become much more prominent, that our tolerance on these issues will come back and bite us.
considering the very hard one rights for women in Britain.
The woman, wife that is the subject of AOG post is the one who refused on the grounds of her religion not to remove her veil in court, lots of hoo haaing over this, this is Britain, not Saudi, obey the laws and stop the judiciary from making allowances, because as soon as you do, then this issue will crop up again and again.
You seem to think that this is just knocking the adherents of Islam, well if they have brought their backwards ideology to these shores, it should be challenged at every turn. If born in Britain the same applies, stop bending over backwards because this surely will be a problem for our children and their children.
I don't like to see a woman wear a burkha, niqab, hijab, for what it's worth, and no one is going to persuade me that sitting next to a woman wearing the full regalia makes them feel uncomfortable.