Are Muslims doing enough to integrate with British society and are we reciprocating?
Integrating into another culture is always difficult because anyone from another background will see that there are things in their native culture they see as preferable to the equivalents in their host culture. Giving up everything of their own background is not something that a host culture should demand of immigrants (whether first or second or third generation). However being subjected to the same rules as the indigenous population is something that should be expected, so quite frankly I fail to see why rules for passport photos should be relaxed for those of immigrant cultures. It creates a lot of bad feeling. If a Scotsman wants to fly he has to remove the knife from his sock. If a Muslim woman wants a passport she should have to bare her head like everyone else. Or get a passport from her family’s country of origin. And immigrants from whatever background and of whatever generation should make a real effort to take an appreciative interest in the historic culture of the land the
