The wearing of headscarves and face veils has generated much controversy in Europe in recent years.
Here in France, the government this week approved a draft law to ban the wearing of full face veils in public spaces, opening the way for the text to go before parliament in July.
The bill calls for $185 fines and, in some cases, citizenship classes for women who do not comply with the ban.
Anyone convicted of forcing a woman to wear a veil could face a year in prison and a $18,555 fine.
Similar legal processes are being considered in other European countries.
Many consider the targeting of face veils to be part of the same cynical and populist anti-Muslim campaign that has also taken aim at the wearing of headscarves, the building of minarets and Muslim reactions to 'blasphemous' cartoons.
They suspect that a populist European Right will conti
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