laaammmee thought you meant the song name misread the question.

I say (3) avoiding sensitive areas.  No using burqas as athletic supporters!

If I post a dozen new threads per day about articles I found on Reuters is that spamming?

People should live their lives however they like and it is not for me or the law to dictate whether someone is allowed to wear a face veil or not.

Clearly there is a need to identify oneself in cases such as passport control or maybe in the bank. In which case anyone covering their face can be asked to reveal it or not be served in the bank or not be allowed through passport control. Equally the impracticality of covering your face at work would make it difficult in many jobs. You probably won't get very far as a car salesman in a full face covering but if you work in a telephone call centre then what difference does it make?

Dictating to someone what they should or shouldn't wear (through law) is an impingement of that person's freedom to live their life as they choose and is ideologically unsound to me. However there are situations where it is impractical to have your face covered and it should be down to employers whether this is acceptable in the work place to fit with dress code policies, the image that the employer wants to portray and the practicality of it. It should also be down to institutions like banks whether they need to identify people facially. Although most banks offer online or telephone services, so again, what difference does it make? If I'm not allowed to wear my veil in the branch I can just wear it on the phone, so I may as well be allowed in the branch!

I think hip hop clothing should be banned from public streets. However, that will never be accepted. So I'm willing to settle with a ban on clothing that hides one's own identity.

@Sitting Duck

Well said.

"If I'm not allowed to wear my veil in the branch I can just wear it on the phone, so I may as well be allowed in the branch!"

You can't rob a bank through the phone.

I wouldn't touch this subject with a 20ft p

Guns can work both ways, burquas give vision one way.

I've never heard of anyone robbing a bank wearing a burqua. Come to think of it, if someone is devoutly islamic enough to wear a burqua they probably also would not accept or pay interest on money, so are unlikely to be seen in a bank anyway.

they dont charge interest

they charge a fee

which is oddly enough, equivalent to interest amortized over the life of the loan.

"I believe a number of the female suicide bombers used them to conceal their bombs" Or backpack will do just the some? have they also documented how they escaped justice using an helmet?

"I've never heard of anyone robbing a bank wearing a burqua" I have, but then again, if it wasn't a burqua it would have been something else, saying that a ban on burquas will prevent a robbery on a bank is a stupid excuse...