By ready, she meant with hair done and make-up on. Of course, different cultural norms are allowed to coexist within our society, even when our values – such as equal rights for women – may have taken many years of struggle to obtain. This report revealed Islam as a culture with a deeply held belief in the primacy of the family, but a willingness to put women’s safety at risk in defence of it. The programme was unequivocal on its central point, though, that our legal system is designed to protect its subjects equally. There has to be one law for all, which is UK law not sharia.