To Hijab or not to Hijab

[Gilrandir]

Constitution says all human beings are born and stay equal under the law.

One of the misconseptions I always object to. Let me quote Atticus Finch (To kill a mockingbird) on that:

Thomas Jefferson once said that all men are created equal, a phrase that the Yankees and the distaff side of the Executive branch in Washington are fond of hurling at us. There is a tendency in this year of grace, 1935, for certain people to use this phrase of context, to satisfy all conditions. The most ridiculous example I can think of is that people who run public education promote the stupid and idle along with the industrious—because all men are created equal, educators will gravely tell you, the children left behind suffer terrible feelings of inferiority. We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe—some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they’re born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cake than others—some people are born gifted beyond the normal scope of men.

We should ban nonsense like the burka that interferes with the wellbeing of the general population.

I think in Russia being gay interferes with the wellbeing of the general population. Why is the West so persistent then about gays not "being banned" in Russia in any way?

"I know nobody brought up the hijab but I thought this was banned in France as well." Only in public places: The scarf is banned for civil servants, as we have a law separating state and religions. No civil servant is allowed to wear (obvious) religious symbols. You can wear a small cross, David star, hand of Fatima or the little bird for the Protestants (as they were banned to wear a Cross by the Catholic Kings of France, they took a bird as symbol, and it stays).
Burkas are banned.

And you call it democracy? Who determines the size of a symbol to ban it or to let it stay? A law? Or a strolling patrolman? If a law, how can, say, 5 cm cross be a symbol and, say, 7 cm - a flagrant violation of the separation the state from the church?

British culture doesn't demand much for an individual to be regarded as British. It doesn't even make the demand, although I think it should, that a UK citizen should think of themselves as British over some other entity.

So you would like to determine what others SHOULD THINK? Thought Police announces enrollment of the new eager employees?