[Margaret Pilkington]

How is it that in France the muslim girls are not permitted to wear the hijab(headscarf) to school. Do they have a different set of human rights laws????
The jilbab is a purely cultural form of dress.....in Bangladesh where Shabina Begum's family originate from most women do not even wear a headscarf.
In Turkey muslim girls are not allowed to wear full islamic dress in schools.
In truth there is no pan-Islamic dress code, although those who encouraged Shabina to take this course of action would like there to be. We are becoming so tied up on the tenets of Islam so that the only people who seem to get heard are the extremists......and that is a worry!