Yes, this is an audience of Muslims, and, even though the occasion is a civic one, not a religious one, they've insisted on gender apartheid.
When such a thing happened some years ago at the insistence of a Muslim mayor in the East End of London, there was much indignation, and at least one Muslim councillor of the inferior sex was among those doing the grumbling.
Emmeline Pankhurst, Emmeline Fawcett and their cohorts must be spinning in their graves.
Read the entire squalid story on the influential Guido Fawkes blog here and here and also see The Spectator here
I doubt Labour cares one way or the other. They're after votes, doesn't really matter whose votes.
ReplyDeleteFemale rights in multicultural Britain have been on the slide for some time Daphne.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2042195/Baroness-Shreela-Flather-says-Nigerian-men-4-wives-theyre-lazy.html
ReplyDeleteMy (perhaps cynical) theory is that the Left of today, with their islamophilia is not only favorable to gender apartheid but also - at least tacitly - approving of, if not emulting the practices of mohamed wrt Aisha - remember the "scandals" at the BBC ?
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