It is simplePaddington Bear wrote: What you say may have applied in the good old days when reasonable debates took place. Today, things have moved on and this has become an issue of freedom. There was an article in yesterday's TIMES by, of all people, the beauty tips editor!In it, she was arguing for the Niqab and saying that if people's choice there is (forcibly) limited then the same logic should apply to ladies who surgically enhance their bosoms or models that improve their appearance with makeup. Her reasoning was that both these practices are as about oppressing women as (some might say) the niqab.
All in all, the argument has moved from the simple (and reasonable) protest of having to see people’s faces into one that is loaded with political, ideological and racist undertones.
However once a sociology professor said to me that women in any given society dress how their men want them to dress. And with the history of oppression that women have had to endure in the past women are cautious about who is pulling the strings when it comes to how they look and what they wear. We're obviously not over it and any issue that touches on the topic opens the can of worms, especially when the item in question is an overbearing black ninja-type garment, its about as subtle as an elephant in a pink raincoat.
Google images "oppression" a woman in a niqab is the 3rd picture
is it me or am i helucinating here. 
