MAT has handled cases of domestic violence in which female victims were persuaded to withdraw complaints to the police and pursue “reconciliation” with their husbands instead. The men were only told to take anger management courses. It also offers Islamic divorces, but they are more difficult for women to obtain than for men. Sheikh Siddiqi led a thousand-strong, gender-segregated march in protest at Charlie Hebdo’s use of images of Mohammed last year, a month after 11 of the magazine’s staff were murdered.