Okay I am not going to do any quoting because most people are basically saying the same thing, i.e. "this is bad because it discriminates against muslims". I argue this isn't necessarily a bad thing (read: is a good idea) and will probably be called a racist/inbred/asshole/whatever for it, suck my dick.

The argument for France can really be made quiet simply, as Sarkozy put it: "In our country, we cannot accept that women be prisoners behind a screen, cut off from all social life, deprived of all identity". The choice of a religion by a person is rarely a choice at all. These women are born into Islam (whether in France or later coming to France as immigrants or seeking asylum from their shit Muslim dictators/governments), into tight-nit families and communities (who often don't integrate into white European society which is part of the less-altruistic motivation for these laws) who would disown them if they rejected Islam. This law will likely free many women from a symbol of repression and subjugation which simply doesn't belong in a modern-day western nation. Or, they'll simply be required not to leave home (i.e., enter public grounds) and their captors will hopefully be arrested for kidnapping and domestic abuse, or whatever the French equivalent is.