Canadian makes a Libertarian argument for a Burqa Ban

We identify each other by our faces; we're "not forced to carry government i.d. cards"

Excerpt from Licia Corbella, columnist, Calgary Herald, "More evidence why the West should ban the burka" April 19:

Women who do not wear head scarves are being threatened with violence and even death by Islamic extremists ...,” [an] April 18 story in the [UK] Daily Mail.

Nothing unusual there, except that these threats are being made to non-Muslim women in ... wait for it ... Great Britain.

The Daily Mail story states: “[A non-Muslim] woman who works in a pharmacy in east London was told to dress more modestly and wear a veil or the shop would be boycotted.

“When she went to the media to talk about the abuse she suffered, a man later entered the pharmacy and told her: ‘If you keep doing these things, we are going to kill you.’ ”

This story, and others like it, should put to rest the nonsensical arguments of people who say that the niqab and the burka are simply just another choice of clothing... Wherever the niqab becomes common, it eventually becomes mandatory and women are never given a choice of what to wear again.

That’s the problem and that’s, in part, what France is attempting to stop with its ban on face coverings in public...

If Islamo-fascists have their way or become the majority they will impose their oppressive dress code on all women, regardless of their individual beliefs.

In Canada, we identify one another by our faces. We are not forced to carry government-issued identification, like in all Islamo-fascist states. Therein lies the biggest difference of all.