Issues like this have always made me incredibly angry, because it's just as you said: I'm not a fan of any sort of socially mandated "modest clothing" or religiously symbolic gender-specific clothing. But you know, Spain: You have an awful lot of nuns wearing restrictive habits to be starting with the Muslim women. Just saying.

I guess I know too many women who choose to wear the burka and are proud of it, but my anger at the state for trying to step in and tell women what they can and cannot wear pretty much robs me of coherency. So thank you for putting a bit of it into words for me. :)