Women should be allowed to wear a veil if they wish. However, in current circumstances:
1. If they do it should be a valid reason to refuse them a job that requires them to carry/use an identity card that relies on a photograph.
2. They should not be able to object if they are barred from any high security area (or shops - where security cameras cannot see their faces, and their robes are ideal concealment for shop-lifted goods), or areas of public entertainment when there is a raised security risk - without being subject to body search on entering and/or leaving.
Because human beings are designed by evolution to watch and read faces, most people feel deeply unconfortable when confronted by someone whose face they cannot read. (This is, incidentally, as true in the Middle East as here, and is probably one of the reasons behind the introduction of the oppressive use of female face coverings - it is the male ownership of even the female personality.) If women who choose to wear a veil (as opposed to those who are forced to do so by men) feel ostracised, they have only themselves to blame. If isn't natural behaviour for homo sapiens....
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1. If they do it should be a valid reason to refuse them a job that requires them to carry/use an identity card that relies on a photograph.
2. They should not be able to object if they are barred from any high security area (or shops - where security cameras cannot see their faces, and their robes are ideal concealment for shop-lifted goods), or areas of public entertainment when there is a raised security risk - without being subject to body search on entering and/or leaving.
Because human beings are designed by evolution to watch and read faces, most people feel deeply unconfortable when confronted by someone whose face they cannot read. (This is, incidentally, as true in the Middle East as here, and is probably one of the reasons behind the introduction of the oppressive use of female face coverings - it is the male ownership of even the female personality.) If women who choose to wear a veil (as opposed to those who are forced to do so by men) feel ostracised, they have only themselves to blame. If isn't natural behaviour for homo sapiens....