Woman becomes first to be fined in France for wearing face veil
12th April 2011
I am uncomfortable with this. I have no problem with imposing restrictions on those wearing all-encompassing coverings — no, you can’t enter any building or area that would make a juicy suicide-bomber target wearing one — but to criminalize conduct that is arguably religiously required by people who aren’t inherently inconveniencing other people seems to me to be excessive.
Kudos to the French for finally pushing back against the slow-motion Muslim conquest of Europe, of course, but I think that there are more legitimate ways to do it.