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Originally Posted by Brillopad

If anyone tried to pressurise me into wearing a burka or any such restrictive clothing I would do much the same as an adult.

But no doubt if I had been subjected to family/social pressure and 'spoken/unspoken' threat from birth I guess I would have pretty much been conditioned into believing I actually had free choice at that stage.

Social condioning is very strong.

Those that cannot acknowledge that are socially deaf, dumb and blind.

Hackney is home to a large ultra-Orthodox Jewish Charedi community, which is regarded as insular and practices a strict 19th-century interpretation of the faith.

Engagement with the secular world is for many deeply taboo.

The Independent has spent months investigating illegal schools in the borough.

Those forced to attend illegal schools have reported that they are not taught English or anything secular so they can instead focus on studying the Torah.

One former pupil at an illegal schoool in Hackney told The Independent he was regularly subject to “physical and psychological abuse”.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-a7422526.html