Reply #83: Burqas are like a total black sheet body cover w/ eyeslits.

[clear eye]

I would find wearing one oppressive, and I'd encourage more westernized French Muslim women to create a support network to reduce the # of women who are coerced into wearing one. But since some women do feel that their religion demands it and aren't under coercion, a legal ban strikes me as interfering w/ freedom of religion, and is probably a very ineffective way of protecting women's rights.

Hijab are headscarves.

And yes, people, especially minorities, are better off spared from such condescending "help".