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In reply to the discussion: Muslim Woman Sues Police For Forcing Her To Remove Hijab [View all]Donald Ian Rankin
(13,598 posts)For what it's worth, I think that requiring people to uncover their heads for booking photos is entirely reasonable, and this woman's objections should not be conceded to, but I think it's grossly unfair to characterise this the way you do.
In a culture with no nudity taboos, where blemishes on the body were a useful tool for identifying people, it might well be reasonable to take naked mugshots, and if I emigrated there I'd have to accept that. But that doesn't mean I'd be comfortable with it.
I think it's reasonable to make the point that Islamic modesty taboos for women are much more restrictive than they are for men, and to suggest that that's a good reason that they should be challenged and changed. But I don't think it's fair to go as far as you do.