in the UK we go on making the same mistakes; failing recently to clamp down on Sharia courts which regard a woman's evidence as worth half that of a man. "And now, unbelievably, we have one of the nation's favorite retailers marketing the burkini as if it were just another jolly beach outfit, not a restrictive, quasi-religious garment that treats the female form as lascivious and shameful."

Guardian columnist Catherine Bennet echoed this sentiment: "It is legitimate to ask why a secular fashion business would produce women's clothing for which male clerics created the entire market."

A Muslim-American commentator has noted that efforts by international brands to cater to Muslim consumers will lead to the mainstreaming of Islam in the West. Writing for the fashion industry website Racked, Fareeha Molvishifted over the years: At first, he needed a lot of help building the tracks, but as he grew, he built more and more elaborate track designs. Kroyan wanted to create a way for kids, including his own, to use technology actively instead of passively consuming content by way of screens. Inspired by his son, he decided to take the intuitiveness of the classic toy train experience and augment it with an interactive, tactile layer of technology. Trains were a perfect platform for the sort of sequential thinking used in STEM, he thought -- before a child builds a track, they often need to preconceive what it’ll look like on the whole.

The train set, available to consumers in March 2019, is retrocompatible with wooden tracks so that it