SHOULD 'GOD'S' LAWS TRUMP THE LAWS OF A CIVILIZED COUNTRY IN 2011?

France has passed laws that prohibit women from wearing a Burka in public.  Just because middle-eastern men can't contain their lust when seeing a woman's (any woman's) face, women should hide their face so as not to be blamed for causing their own rape.  I suspect some women have decided to hide their need for electrolysis, a nose job, orthodontia, acne relief, and a few other assorted conditions which might show if a face is exposed.

One of the arguments I have heard is that the government has no business telling people what they can wear.  Try going out naked.  See if the government will then tell you firmly what to wear or let you go to your choice...jail or the local mental hospital..  Why do people not see there are exceptions to all rules.  We have 'freedom of speech' but don't yell 'FIRE' in a theater because you are not free to do that.  And you shouldn't be free in our society to hide your identity., in my humble opinion.

The hijab, burqa, burga, burka or one of as many versions as the spelling of Moamar's last name in English, would supply with the wearer with total gender and personal anonymity.  Our society assumes that when someone puts a mask on, they are trying to hide something. It is frowned on by the police and a test case in Florida a few years ago denied a Muslim woman the right to have her driver's license taken with her burqa on.  The article quotes:  "

"Here in the U.S., Islamic women encounter no official discrimination for veil-wearing, any more than Amish or Mennonite or Jewish people do for wearing their religion on their sleeve, so to speak. There are some distinctions to be drawn, however: not too long ago, a woman in Florida was denied a driver’s license because she refused to be photographed without her Islamic veil, and the state considered that a driver’s license is a privilege, not a right; being photographed for identity purposes  was part of the requirement to obtain a driver’s license. So it wasn’t considered religious discrimination to refuse the license; the woman could wear her veil all she wanted, but she couldn’t be licensed to drive behind a mask, as the state claims the right to determine that the license belongs to the person who presents it."

This article does not refer to any experiences thee women may have in the workplace.  For example, would you hand your money to a bank teller in a burqa? Would you take a credit card without seeing the picture matching the being in the burqa?  Would grade schools welcome unidentified people on their grounds when it can be anyone underneath that fabric?  We have many needs for being able to identify people with whom we do business in our society.  Women are fearful even in playgrounds that their children may be kidnapped.  Would they feel comfortable around someone in a burqa?    I think even the US has to rethink some of the things that may not yet have presented a problem because it has no reached the media.  What if it does?

Can you imagine what a family portrait of all the women in the family at a public event would look like?