I actually completely agree with the second part of your post. This does not warrant a burka ban, but simply asking them to take it off would probably do the trick. We don't need a law for that.
"How many of the women in the west who wear the burqa "voluntarily" would get smacked around/chastised by their husband/father if they didn't"
Do you have any kind of proof that this is indeed the case. Earlier on, I referred to
an article talking about how many women wear the burka and more importantly, who these women are. I mentioned earlier that it's almost(!) exclusively worn by western converts and born-again Muslims. In most of the cases, it's not a family tradition, there's likely no husband or family imposing or forcing them to wear it. This is probably very different for Muslim women of Middle-Eastern descent, but there are hardly any of them here that wear the burka. It's a non-issue.
EDIT: My quote tags aren't working. Very handy.
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