Timothy Miller was a 76-year-old Englishman enjoying his retirement. Timothy Miller is now a Muslim woman on bail after being charged with concealing her identity at a political protest. If he is convicted at her trial in February, they face a fine or a month in prison.

In early September, Miller was among the hundreds of protesters who gathered in Portsmouth to protest the British government’s policy of accepting and housing boatloads of illegal immigrants from across the English Channel. Miller attended in the traditional Englishwoman’s finery, a head-to-toe burka in stylishly minimalist black with a matching niqab face-covering, provocatively cut to leave a mailbox slot for her eyes. And his.