for your stories never bothered you. What on earth could be more normal and logical or, if you wish, egalitarian but to be equal before the law and be identified for secrity and potential crime reasons?! However, you have allready made a name for yourself by opposing every single norm of behaviour, based on logic and our social values. So why stop now? You do live in a cuckoo land. Greymalkin : "Furthermore, only a tiny number of women go fully-veiled in Australia. The subset of those women who drive is almost vanishingly small." Ever wonder why so few are driving? It is because their husbands/fathers will not let them. This is why we should ban the full face covering varient of Muslim garb. Doing so is a very clear line in the sand saying "We will put up with religious tradition and silliness, right up until it becomes about the oppression of others." Regardless of whether the niqab is a religious or cultural tradition it exists only as a form of oppression and objectification of women where they are stripped of individuality to be regarded as mere possessions. In their culture women wearing the niqab are referred to as niq?b?ah. This further objectifies them as they are even more distanced from being a person to being a thing. That action is abhorrent to our society and quite frankly it is embarrassing we have let it go on as long as it has. Next time you are engaging in handwringing