I just cannot see forcing a woman to reveal a part of her body she is not comfortable revealing as

[Warpy]

64. I agree in principle

especially since I've seen Muslim immigrants out shopping in my part of town moving from the full body veil to the simple hijab as time has gone on. Nobody stares at a hijab here any more but they do stare at the full body veil and that becomes uncomfortable. No one tells them what to wear. No one tells them what not to wear, either, and there are no religious police enforcing dress codes. For the first time, many of them get to choose.

However, I can see restrictions on the full body veil in many situations, especially around machinery. That would be up to an employer who wants to reduce workman's compensation costs, not the government's business.

France is going to have to come to grips with the fact that immigrants are there to stay and pushing pork at the kiddies and forbidding women to wear head scarves is not going to help them assimilate. In fact, it will cause the opposite to happen and they will have an antagonistic minority to deal with instead of people with strange customs who are slowly assimilating.