I will never cease to be amazed at the comments on this and other threads which seem to be agreeing with the way women are regarded in other countries whose laws - not talking about culture - allow FGM, think all women and 13 year old girls - or younger - are unclean during their periods and are apart until their 'uncleanness' is finished, women whose only crime was to be born a woman.
In countries where law, religion and culture are all one, where morality police regularly stop and publicly whip women they think had acted 'unlawfully', or are not accompanied by a male - even a male child - the suffering of women - ordinary women, not the wives and concubines of leaders, is so much so that they see death as a blessing.
Either half the posters on mumsnet are men, or the women have a funny sense of what is the right way to treat a woman. I don't think the treatment of women, especially the coverings like tomb mummies or shades of the underworld, has been going on for long. I suppose if we could think back, or have news items from the 1980s we might find that there were very few restrictions on women in the MIddle East. Long clothes covered up legs so insects didn't bite and headscarves helped in sandstorms, but there is no reason why western women should be treated the same.
Ask yourselves, posters, just what you are considering, what you are marching for, what you are campaigning for. It seems there are so many posters who welcome young men from the middle east and Africa whose way of life agrees with the treatment of women which this country deplores.
Why do you demonstrate in favour of men of marriageable age who have left their country, impoverished and coming across the channel, leaving muslim women and girls behind? Hasn't it occurred to you that they may be looking for wives? There is very often no minimum age for marriage where they come from.. When they see teenage girls 'parading' when school ends, their lack of education and the way of culture they have grown up with - and is in their DNA - they think they can take the pick of any girl or woman who is not wearing the coverup.
Instead of applying your efforts to free the oppressed women, you are there welcoming young penniless men into the country saying they have a right. They only have a right when they have been processed and found genuine.
Until then, the thought of them marrying British girls and converting them to their 'religion' if we can call it that, when it is also the law and culture, and cannot be a faith because it is forced, and leaving that 'religion' carries a death sentence.
Are you so taken up with bitterness against people you hate, and have politics you don't agree with, that you will even side with those young men and hope it isn't your daughter they have their eyes on, to marry, have children, and get British citizenship because they have a family? Then, having established that, the s law courts in UK will divorce them and they can try again.
You have to make up your minds what you believe in. If you are men, then the prospect of men subjugating their wives might appeal, especially if they eat only what you leave. If you are a woman, why on earth are you encouraging others to welcome men who you should by now know are already changing British culture for the worse.