British Muslim woman wants the burqa banned...

Shopping in Harrods last week, I came across a group of women wearing black burkhas, browsing the latest designs in the fashion department. 

The irony of the situation was almost laughable. Here was a group of affluent women window shopping for designs that they would never once be able to wear in public. 

Yet it's a sight that's becoming more and more commonplace. In hardline Muslim communities right across Britain, the burkha and hijab - the Muslim headscarf - are becoming the norm.

In the predominantly Muslim enclaves of Derby near my childhood home, you now see women hidden behind the full-length robe, their faces completely shielded from view. In London, I see an increasing number of young girls, aged four and five, being made to wear the hijab to school. More...

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