France veil row sparks Trappes unrest

[Warpy]

84. I think women need to uncover their faces here

to do most things to become citizens like get their IDs, driver's licenses, green cards, and eventually citizenship and passports. While I've seen a few women out and about with the niqab, I've also seen them liberalize the longer they stay here. I live in that kind of neighborhood, a poor one with a lot of new immigrants, so I have ample observation time. They do assimilate, but shedding that veil must feel like going to a nude beach for the rest of us, just a little exposed at first.

The situation is a little different in France, where women who grew up wearing a simple head scarf have married men who fell off the deep end and the whole family goes nuts with them, the women shrouding themselves specifically to set themselves aside from the larger population. If they're that desperate to be set aside, maybe deportation to a place where it's the norm is the kindest thing for them.

Then again, I'd like to export all religious zealots, everywhere, but that's just me.