Stupid

What is it with extremist Muslims? If there were ever a group hell bent on scoring own goals, they seem to have won the prize for it.

Telegraph.

Islamic schools have introduced uniform policies which force girls to wear the burka or a full headscarf and veil known as the niqab.

Moderate followers of Islam said yesterday that enforcement of the veil was a "dangerous precedent" and that children attending such schools were being "brainwashed".
The Sunday Telegraph has established that three UK institutions have introduced a compulsory veil policy when girls are walking to or from school. They are:

• Madani Girls' School in east London;

• Jamea Al Kauthar in Lancaster;

• Jameah Girls' Academy in Leicester.

All three are independent, fee-paying, single-sex schools for girls aged 11 to 18. Critics warned that the spectacle of burka-clad pupils entering and leaving the schools at the start and end of the day could damage relations between Muslim and non-Muslim communities.
Ed Husain, co-director of Quilliam, the counter-extremist think-tank, said: "It is absurd that schools are enforcing this outdated ritual – one that which sends out a damaging message that Muslims do not want to fully partake in British society.
"Although it is not the government's job to dictate how its citizens dress, it should nonetheless ensure that such schools are not bankrolled or subsidised by the British taxpayer."
He added: "The enforcing of the niqab on young girls is not a mainstream Islamic practice – either in Britain or in most Muslim-majority countries.
"It is a desert practice which belongs to another century and another world."

Now, Ed Husain has it right in that it's not the governments job to dictate what people wear. However wearing something so unsuitable for British climate is surely a health and safety matter. Covering yourself from head to foot in a northern climate leaves you open to a serious risk of vitamin D deficiency. There's also the danger of (as usual) preventing integration with the mainstream as a whole, though this is something that a lot of Muslims seem to think is fine anyway, even though it stirs up trouble sooner or later.
There are those out there who believe that Muslims are being set up (as were the Jews in Nazi Germany) to be the scapegoats for any and all problems that the nation faces, it might be so, I certainly wouldn't put it past higher "Righteous" thinking. But unlike the Jews in Nazi Germany, the Muslims themselves do themselves no favours whatsoever by refusing to conform. Demonstrating against the returning troops from Afghanistan doesn't help. Being involved in the notorious grooming of young girls into prostitution doesn't help. Marrying your cousins in Pakistan and bringing them over here doesn't help.
They may be being set up as the fall guys, but judging from what they get up too, they aren't just walking into a trap, they are running at it full tilt in certain instances.