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Oh I totally agree Cloud. Unfortunately what we have with some of our British-born young moslem women is a tendency to want to assert their moslem identity by being, if anything, much stricter on these things than their parents might have been. They're busy asserting their right to wear veils and cover up; meanwhile a thousand miles away their moslem sisters are busy trying to assert their right not to cover up and be taken seriously as men's equals.
It's a difficult one really. The more our society goes down what appears to be an anti-Islamic path, the more these politically aware young women wish to assert their identity and the more they take on rules and strictures which, had they been born elsewhere they may see as an imposition and denial of their basic humanity. On the one hand I wish to support their right to that cultural heritage...on the other hand I want to slap them senseless for voluntarily applying the male yoke.
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