Even if they would, the idea that they’ve gained any insight into how [some] Muslim women feel when venturing onto the street wearing what their [confessional of] religion dictates would be laughable if it weren’t so pathetic. At the end of the day, they were free to disrobe and return to a [more or less] equal status in mainstream British society, and authority undreamt of by those SE Asian women they merrily patronized by this visit to a religious theme-park.

There’s no need for me to explain in which neck of the woods the burqa is a culturally-dictated more. Here is a local woman who did not wear a burqa and fought to ensure other women were not subjected to repression, and was assoassinated for her troubles. She was a Police officer as well; but, in my opinion, of far more smeddum than the Sgts Pickering and Leonard or PCSO Helen Turner.

In shameless self-publicity, I discussed another Muslim woman (who declines to let Muslim men chose which parts of Western culture pleased *them*, whilst requiring Muslim women to adhere to those parts of Islamic mandates which pleased *them*) here.

Here I doffed my snazzy felt fedora or Houriya, and touched upon the appearance of the burqa across the border from South Yorkshire in Lancashire. There’s a photograph of all three women: Turner is wearing a hijab, with Leonard and Pickering in burqas from left to right (although it may be right to left, I can’t tell).

Your best shot is to get someone who can speak with authority on doctrinal issues in Islam — an “imam type” — to counter the Islamist message. Until then, it really isn’t absurd., and certainly multiculti oh so peecee public functionaries shouldn’t be taken to task for what they have been led to think must be in best interests of , um, “community outreach”.

Perhaps the cleric at the nearest mosque will oblige… No? Then not only is this not absurd, it’s a problem.

(Btw, I agree with you, but I’m a private individual too; and as for mere opinions, it’s said that they’re like assholes: everybody has one.)