Whilst the independent article offers some explanation "women who don't feel welcome in their own country" This won't be a first, Britain has absorbed many nationalities, cultures and religions and I expect some of those from time to time will have felt isolated, possibly by lack of language or culture. My own grandfather was an immigrant but he married my grandmother who was English, always the quickest way to integrate fully in my opinion. I know extended members of his family that came here, particularly the women, hung on to vestiges of the old country, wearing black for too long after a relative died was one, but generally what happens is the next generation gradually throws off these traditions and if they marry out they will further immerse themselves in the way of the host country, to do this though THEY MUST BE OPEN TO MIXING. Yes I know the argument about Brits in Spain, but they are generally retirees. The strange thing about some of the Muslim communities, that often they can be third generation and they want to go back to a way of life that their grandparents were willing to leave. Riverwalk I do agree, the way Benezir Bhutto dressed managed to combine traditional modesty and elegance. The face covering is just about the biggest barrier that anyone can put up in my opinion a sort of horrific sinister mish mash of an disembodied mobile tent and Darth Vader. Yasmin Allibah Brown is a vociferous critic of that mode of dress and frequently points out that Muslim women are not required to cover themselves in this way, it's a tradition that emanates from Saudi Arabia that has been adopted and we all know how they view women.
For every woman who wants to go into Syria and Iraq there must be hundreds of the indigenous women from those regions who with their families are trying to get out, shouldn't that tell them something.
