Because there IS a voice under all of that

Manal Omar writes a FASCINATING piece about what happens when muslim women become a topic of conversation without being involved in it.

Because someone else always knows what's best for you.

At no point had the journalist contacted me. She seemed to have decided to take a similar approach to the man in the swimming pool - talking about me, not to me. As did David Lloyd's, which had backed up his story without consulting me. At no point did they bother to inform me, a paying member, that such an article was being written. I contacted the Oxford Mail, offering them my side of the story. I never heard back.

Does she sound oppressed to you?

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