morlock-holmes:

So the French government can just tell you how to dress, whether it goes against your religion or personal conscience?

They ain’t got freedom of religion or freedom of speech over there, the government can just outlaw a religious practice whenever they feel like it?

The French idea is very much that you are not supposed to do things the white way or the black way or the Catholic way or the Muslim way, you are supposed to do them the French way and it is the proper duty of the Republic to maintain itself by seeing to this