Reply #58: Well, you know France is a secular socialist country and all. Yup, full face veils=yarmulkes

[uppityperson]

Did you read that a man who forces his wife to wear full face veil will get more heavily fined?

"by and large they CHOOSE to wear these things. They are not living in a country which would not support them in an effort to divorce their husbands or leave their communities. France is not Saudi Arabia, or similar countries in which the government is going to force them to engage in religious practices or social situations in which they do not want to be."

Of course some women chose to wear a burqa while out in public, even in France. But how many fully veiled women living in France have you talked to? I sincerely doubt it is "by and large" unless they do so to keep the peace at home.

Do you seriously believe that by living in France, women are not forced to stay in marriages or communities or situations that they don't want to? Seriously? Not by the government, true, but by their family or communities.

No, the French government isn't "going to force them to engage in religious practices or social situations in which they do not want to be." Instead the opposite. This is meant to free them, to allow them to not engage in religious practices they don't want to.