UK - Christianity declining, Atheism rising, but so is Islam...

[pocaracas]

Well, it seems there are other countries where people are forbidden to cover their faces, although it seems it's mostly for participants in demonstrations:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-mask_laws

Yes. It's worrying, isn't it. How many of our civil rights are we coerced in to sacrificing, in the name of security...

I'm reading the book Infidel by Ayaan Arsi Ali and, with it, I learned that some women are taught, actually indoctrinated, that they must cover themselves and show as little skin as possible. They must be as unprovocative as possible, so men don't turn into savage beasts that will ravage them and kill them, or something... also, Allah cannot see female skin, or else they will go to hell and become prostitutes of hell beasts... or something.
Anyway, all this to say that the desire to wear that tent is drilled into them and many abide by it. It's a religious and a cultural phenomenon.

When these people move to a country where no such culture exists, it either becomes paradoxical in their minds, as clearly men do not turn into savage beasts when they see female skin (why wear the tent, then? family pressure)... or they close themselves indoors and become even more entrenched in their own culture thus not contributing to society, but breeding animosity with the neighbors and possibly a generation of misfits (their children).

This sort of law either empowers women or exacerbates the second option... We'll see, in time, what happens in France.
If the experiment succeeds, other countries may start adopting such policies. Make it known to the countries where this mentality comes from that it is backwards and should remain in the dark-ages where it belongs.

I'm telling you one thing: I do not want a muslim to ever become prime-minister in my country.
Call it islamophobia, call it whatever you will... but the day that happens, a european government will change and start tending to a theocracy.

[church of saint Poca]
Of course helmets prevent headaches! Nothing can bang your head while wearing them, thus preventing any and all pain. DUH!

Then I'm in! Since I live in the UK, it's not a problem for me, unless I'm taking part in an unlawful assembly.

Yoohooo!
We've got one!!
Ahem, I mean, Welcome to the church, brother!
Never forget your helmet.
Saint Poca will be displeased, if you do.... and you will have a headache!
Headaches are saint Poca's way of telling you he is displeased.