While women in Afghanistan, under increasing Taliban oppression, have ‘do not to touch my clothes’ campaigns protesting against having to fully cover themselves up in black, it is ironic that in the UK there are converse campaigns to have women fully covering themselves up in black.

It’s true that many emigrants preserve more conservative attitudes than the inhabitants of the countries they have left. In Delhi, for example, I found girls much more ‘westernly’ dressed than those in Bradford! But, meanwhile, too many women are in fear of their lives in countries ruled by mega-patriarchal political systems (which, according to today’s BBC news, also touches the UK parliament…).

Afghani women’s dress is beautifully colourful.

(Sandra wearing an Afghan Dress).

Are we then to suppose that those who cover up in black in the UK are sympathisers of Talebanic ideology? (…which word, ‘Taliban’, means ‘student’, the very right to be one they have denied women).

Meanwhile I note that the ex-isis member Shamima Begum, dispossessed of her UK citizenship and now in a middle eastern refugee camp, has changed her ‘look’ from this

To this…..