Marijuana, Prostitution, Euthanasia = Thumbs up, Burqa = Thumbs down(?)

Reuters reports that the Netherlands government is considering banning the burqa - the veil that many Islamic women wear across their face. Netherlands maybe the first nation to actually ban the burqa leading many Islamic women to resort to wearing surgical masks if the ban goes through.

Reasons for this ban equates to security measures...um right. As much as the burqa has conjured thoughts of demeaning or unequal rights to women in the Islamic religion, for a nation that so freely allows and is known for the use of cannabis, legalizing prostitution, and also allows euthanasia... how does a burqa harm such a society? In such a free society it becomes difficult to rationalize the ban especially when one may see the burqa as against free rights compared to one who dons a burqa as a symbol of their faith maybe even chastity... it is all too relative.

For whatever reasons banning the burqa at this point in time in Europe is just another log being placed into the raging fires of "Islamophobia" ... it is just not going to help anyone.