After all, with only an estimated two thousand Muslim burqa wearers in the entire population of sixty-four million (aka 0.003%), it'd seem kinda petty to legislate against just them, so we have to assume Mr Sarkozy is working to a broader agenda he hasn't explained yet – like maybe improving his appeal to rabid right-wingers at the cost of only a relatively few Muslim votes.
And besides, the wives and, um, 'travelling companions' of visiting oil sheikhs and rich Arab businessmen have been exempted from the ban: they'll only be challenged about covering their faces if the manager of whatever upmarket store objects – and as long as they spend enough that's not particularly likely to happen.
But what mainly worries me is the effect this 'egalitarian' legislation is likely to have on traditional brides. Like, are churches 'public places'? Will brides be running the risk of being busted halfway down the aisle?
"I'm sorry, mademoiselle,
you cannot wear the veil
unless you are spending
lots of foreign currency."
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There are of course those who deserve to have the reverse burqa law passed against them - ie, that they should never appear in public without one. Mrs BB would certainly vote early and often to ensure that something-of-the-night MP Michael Howard (representing the constituency of her birth, Folkestone) remained covered up at all times.
Huh? I'd generally assumed, BB, that politicians already wore masks.
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