Quote Originally Posted by Hax View Post
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.
So all other things pertaining to security should be handled with laws, but when it comes to muslims, we should just ask 'pretty please' and hope they are in a good mood?