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Well done that woman.
Why has it taken so long?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-52819978
What's so good about the hijab?
TBF, the right person gets the job. If she’s the right person then great. Her religion nor choice of clothing has anything to do with anything.
To be clear, it's great that a muslim woman has been appointed a judge in the UK for the first time.
I have little doubt that in the past a combination of her religion and gender would have counted against her.
rydster
What’s so good about the hijab?
What's so good about a t-shirt and jeans (substitute your culturally ingrained clothing of choice)?
A T-shirt and jeans are secular, a hijab is a political-religious symbol.
There really isn't much 'culturally-ingrained' about in given that it wasn't until the Iranian revolution that it began to adopted by educated Muslim women.
To enable a fair trial a judge should understand the situation of the defendants. Having a disparate background for different judges helps with that, if they are all just old white men, the law is less likely to be just to all defendants
Perhaps, but then only white men should only judge white men and Muslim women should only judge Muslim women?