So has France got it right banning the veil?

[Publius]

Edit: I also note it seems to be our american friends standing up and saying this shouldn't be banned, which is understandable really, your immigrants seem to assimilate better than european immigrants. I see women in full burqas all the time here. Most of my neighbors are immigrants from Asia or Africa. More relevant, I think, is the fact that America was founded by religious dissidents who were fed up with European intolerance. You can't walk into a bank here in the US without taking off your hat and sunglasses for the cameras. It's an inconvenience we all put up with designed to thwart bank robbers. People who wear the veil don't think that law should apply to them. They have also tried on several occasions to get a state issued DRIVERS LICENSE or REGISTER TO VOTE with a veiled picture. Apparently this practice is common in the Middle East (in areas where they let women vote). True, but those are separate questions from whether burqas should be banned outright. U.S. courts would never allow a complete ban on religious garb, but they have recognized states' interest in requiring that identification documents actually allow the identification of the person they are issued to (i.e. by showing that person's face).

[Eyebiter]

Police Say Man Wearing Burqa Robs MD Bank SILVER SPRING, Md. - Montgomery County police say a man wearing a burqa has robbed a bank in Silver Spring. http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/loca...md-bank-081110

[JDFP]

Police Say Man Wearing Burqa Robs MD Bank SILVER SPRING, Md. - Montgomery County police say a man wearing a burqa has robbed a bank in Silver Spring. http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/loca...md-bank-081110 ..And how many people robbed a bank this week wearing a baseball cap? Oh dear, we better ban baseball caps! j.p.

[DjfunkmasterG]

Police Say Man Wearing Burqa Robs MD Bank SILVER SPRING, Md. - Montgomery County police say a man wearing a burqa has robbed a bank in Silver Spring. http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/loca...md-bank-081110 That is only 20 minutes from me... Same County that i live in just on the far east side of the county and I am on the far NW side of the county.