An M&S spokesman said, “We provide bespoke uniforms for 250 schools across the country and they tell us which items they need as part of their school uniform list. For a number of schools this year, they requested the option of the hijab.”

The Telegraph also gave publishing space to LBC Radio presenter and founder of the Quilliam Foundation Maajid Nawaz, said: “Little girls are told it is “immodest” to show their hair. And blessed be the fruit. Hijab is still imposed (only on women) by law in Iran and Saudi Arabia, and many other countries. This is gender apartheid. Marks and Spencer are free to sell Confederate flag tee-shirts too, but I bet they never will.”

Needless to say, it was an unbiased report, which again we are not surprised about. The contradictory rhetoric however that has surfaced reflects the notion that integration can only be seen through a secular lens, therefore any child that wants to ‘integrate’ must learn how to be less like her family, and more like her peers. This can be a cause of a lot more confusion in identity for children, and the conversation becomes void of inclusivity, if anything it promotes exclusivity, removing a child’s agency to put whatever they want on or off of their heads, the language used reveals, 1. the assumption of the majority is that the parents of Muslim children will naturally force their children to wear religious dress. 2. by policing what the child can and cannot wear, the majority is doing the very thing they seek to dispel. Which is contradictory and confusing.