>> First of all Mrs Obama wasn't here to see some English traditional dancing round the
>> Maypole stuff. She's heavily involved in an initiative to 'Let Girls Learn' about the millions
>> of girls worldwide excluded from education. So in that sense, at least on your terms,
>> it's not surprising she went to an inner city school where a large proportion of
>> pupils are from minorities which (a) wear the jilbaab and (b) are supposedly opposed to
>> educating women. In fact exactly where you'd expect her to be if championing women's rights.
So, you are saying that she deliberately went to a school where a lot of the pupils come from or could come from a background whereby the bigoted older menfolk might prevent their proper education... yet they are at school, receiving an education, presumably?
So she didn't go to a traditional English / British school, because there's no need to?
Are you really saying that?
>> Secondly my accusation of racism isn't because I disagree but because you're using the technique
>> of portraying an extreme stereotype (Saudi Arabia) as applicable to the whole of Islam. That's
>> how racists work - think Jews in 'all' in dodgy international finance or black boys
>> 'all' in drugs and mugging.
You go too far with putting words in my mouth. I made no hint or suggestion about Saudi Arabia. I dislike the requirement of any Islamic country or followers anywhere to make their womenfolk be covered by such clothing, particularly when they are plenty of Islam followers who do not require this. Now that fits Saudi Arabia, fair enough, but it also fits some bloke in Birmingham.
>> The point about the girls' faces is exactly that. If they were really anything
>> like Saudi you'd not see their faces. In reality they're British girls following the same
>> curriculum as my kids did and yours will.
>>
>> Only they're wearing jilbaabs.
My daughter will never have to wear something that I insist on because of my interpretation of some sky fairy story that has been twisted for many hundreds of years and turned into whatever someone wants it to be.
>> The article Roger linked to was indefensibly racist. Why try and defend it?
Because I don't think it was.
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