"Has Cameron forgotten that it was his government which cut funding for English classes in 2011? So why the U-turn? On the one hand his latest statement on Muslim women learning English is a blatant threat: 'if you don't improve your fluency, that could affect your ability to stay in the UK', or again that women on spousal visas could be deported if they failed to learn English by the time that visa ran out. At the same time, while he claims 'white-saviour' fashion to be protecting women from the effects of 'Muslim patriarchy' he is imposing the vicious patriarchy of the British state to threaten them with deportation for not learning English as a result of this same 'Muslim patriarchy'. These are the Tories' well-known 'British values'. The new rules (which Cameron justifies using incorrect figures) will cause enormous trauma and insecurity for newly married women who arrive in this country and also for older women who find it difficult to learn a language.

But this new initiative is obviously far more than simply a threat. It comes out of the increasing targeting of Muslim women for surveillance, not only because they are being seen as potential terrorists but because they are regarded as potential informants and a means of penetrating Muslim families and communities in the interests of surveillance. This is part of a network of such initiatives in the US, UK, France and Germany, sponsored by State Department (look out for more on this on our website soon). In the UK, as FWFP has reported, the state infrastructure for this type of surveillance has been set up over the years through the establishment of Multi-agency Risk Assessment Conferences (MARACs) which on the face of it deal with violence against women but are, by their very nature, instruments of surveillance, and the 'Troubled Families' initiative. The new English classes will serve this purpose too." 

Source: freedom without fear platform
See also 
The culturalization of social antagonisms. 

Anti-Muslim Racism from Above and From Below