Burkas and Bans

So the ban on the burka, and other ‘full-face’ coverings, came into force in France yesterday.
I’ve no doubt that France, with its strict secular tradition, will make it work so would it work in the UK, and should it be tried?

Muslims are far more militant here than in France despite their far larger Muslim population, which was evidenced by a small demonstration in central Paris and a far larger one outside the French Embassy in London.
Is this because French Muslims embrace the ethos of the French Republic whilst many UK Muslims seem to want a form of separatism, both religious and secular?

But do we want to dictate what a woman can wear? One person’s freedom can be another’s tyranny and we need to ask ourselves what a free society actually means. Yes the burka and such like can appear threatening, and it is doubtless ‘un-British’, but is that reason enough?