France has a population of 65 million. Maybe 5 million are muslim. A very rough guess quoted in the media says there are maybe 2,000 women wearing burkas in France. Yeah, this is a real good use of legislation, time and money. Never mind french muslim women suffering actual problems like domestic violence, forced genital mutilation, unemployment, acute racism, language difficulties, lack of opportunites, poor health linked to poverty etc etc. Let's just pander to the right wing and get an easy vote across to make it look like we stand for Liberté, égalité, fraternité.
Personally I do not believe they are required or even hinted at being required in Islam, but a ban is really just not very helpful. It will do nothing to aid genuinely downtrodden women, and will just be a rallying point for extremists and the PC brigade.
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