This book deals with a recent Judicial Review case taken against Essex County Council over their irrational decision to criminalise a flyer which ridiculed the so-called 'Islamic' headscarf/burqa/niqab and advertised the world's biggest website on the subject. A leaflet depicted on the back cover of this volume - a few of which were left by Farid El Diwany, in an Essex library in 2020 and were very quickly condemned by the library as 'racist', 'racially motivated' and a 'hate-crime'. In breach of the Equality Act 2010. Any repeat of them being left in any Essex library would result in a permanent ban for Farid El Diwany and a complaint to the Police.

It mattered not to Essex County Council, who were responsible for running the libraries, that Farid El Diwany was a himself a Muslim whose specialist subject was the 'Islamic' covering in its various guises. It mattered not a jot that a dozen or so Essex libraries stocked the very book that the flyer's website promoted - a work authored by Omar Hussein Ibrahim. Indeed, that particular book was stocked by libraries throughout the United Kingdom. Sold by Waterstones. Available on Amazon. The definitive work on the subject. Inspired by Mr El Diwany's good friend, the senior imam in 1980 at the Central London Mosque, Regent's Park, Dr Zaki Badawi - knighted by Her Majesty the Queen in 2004 - and a personal friend of Prince Charles. Badawi rightly pointed out that nowhere in the Quran was it stated that a woman was obliged to cover her hair and he was adamant that none of the hadith (sayings of the Prophet Muhammad) on the topic, which alleged that a woman must cover her hair, were of proven authenticity. It was Prime Minister Boris Johnson who earlier had made the same point in his 'letter boxes and bank robbers' analogy regarding women who wore the burqa and niqab: there was no scriptural basis for this attire.