I don't know why this is never expressed when others suggest us Brits are afraid of Islam. We have about 20 million females here ..it took nearly 2000 years before female emancipation and I can assure you that any suggestion that they should all wear Burkas, remain uneducated and walk 3 paces behind their husbands is laughable in the extreme and most probably suicidal and quite rightly so.
Your right it is laughable but the only people that don't seem to be laughing at the idea are the appeasing councils, quangos, local pressure groups and goverment officials that have a dangerous tendency to take the fanatics of sharia seriously.
They really believe that these islamists have good points to make and are an asset to society in some perverse way, I know this for a fact cos my mum has been a social worker for 25 years (it's made her very conservative over the time) and she's seen all this sh**t go off first hand especially in the areas where the BNP were recently successful in local elections.