I think you are missing the point. The Burqa is a problem because it covers the face and covers the body, thereby obscuring any physical identification marks at all.

This is a serious problem. Not only does being able to see a persons face and body reveal body language useful to communication, it also allows identification of people that have done something against the law.

If this is allowed, what prevents someone from wearing a burqa while robbing a bank then throwing the burqa away later? It means they got away scott free with an illegal act because no one can identify the person that did it.

Its not just that the burqa is discriminatory, and it is, its that it presents REAL problems for law enforcement and regular people.

The bikini, on the other hand, does exactly the opposite. You can't hide a persons face or body when the person is wearing a bikini.

Your argument has no merit because you aren't looking at it from a logistical point of view.

Melissa is right. Recently, in Afghanistan, several Taliban escaped capture using a Burqa to conceal their identity. We need to wake up and realize that using religious beliefs as a protective shield isn't in the best interest of a society.

Whatever, I wish they would ban burqas here too. I'm not in the mood to see some shadow with two eyes walking through the street or flying on a plane with me.

Have you ever worn a burka?Try it.!I did it,just for fun.I am a modern German woman,and i used a burka.Its not only verry complicated,because its sooo hot under the burka. For myself i feel scarry ,because you can not see even your own feet,its even more difficult to wear the burka in street traffic.For me
Burka is again human rights,it is a big dogma for women.

Let's conceptualise.
Securalism is something that binds all French people and will even add that liberals are the most secular.
On December 1905 after fearce battles (we are French, the battles are always fearce) a law on the Separation of the Churches and the State was passed it says : "The Republic neither recognizes, nor salaries, nor subsidizes any religion". This battle started with the French revolution in 1789, laws were passed in 1801, 1871, 1877.
This to say we are an anti-clerical nation (as opposed to the Italians ir the Spaniards).
I am black, I went to a catholic school and I still think that religion is a private matter, no one should know which god I workship (if I workship any just by looking at me). I also refused to answer any question on my religion or sexual orientation, these things are private and should remain private. There are enough things to find about in life not to add religion, which is something which is not rational.
Of course among those opposing the burqua, you will find racist people, like you will find racist people among those against the state of Israël.
The women covering themselves are young and very French, so I do think it is a response to the French society which has not been able to integrate them : society does not want to integrate us, so we don't want to be integrated and let's make them mad.

Freedom of expression irritates, because it allow much nonsense. However irritating much more is the censorship. Unacceptable.

Anderson I , I, know i am two days late for the story on Micheal's 43 mins of CPR, as a SAD's victim of (sudden cardiac arrest ) survivor it does not add up as they claim the doctor performed 43 mins of CPR on Mr. Jackson. Any ambulance in the LA area would have a ACID unit in the ambulance to distributed shock to the heart why wasn't he paddled to start his heart? CPR ONLY keep air and oxygen Thur the body CPR does not start the heart so as a medical doctor on scene should had administered shock to the heart . The story does not add up there's your strory why wasn't he paddled? Grace and peace Chelle Haas