One is not free to enter into a contract to become a slave, nor to willingly be enslaved. It follows one is not free to voluntarily be dispossessed, oppressed, beaten, belittled, nor abused. The hijab has become a device of oppression.
Sometimes I catch myself in total disbelief that there is a British woman hostage in Gaza and our government isn’t screaming about her. Like Nazanin Zaghari-Radcliffe the British establishment seems utterly unable to protect its citizens. Or unwilling.
At some stage, the Irish Government might explain why it considers friendly relations with Iran so important that it is opening an embassy in Tehran in 2025, when that state is an active participant in a war of aggression against an European state & sponsor of terrorism.