text: Excellent news! The use of face covering is deeply offensive to women. It is the equivalent of a KKK costume representing as it does womens second class status in ME countries. It has no place in western society.  And just for the record it is not related in any way to religious observance.... it is a middle eastern customary practice foisted on women - a sort of cage to protect the property of the male. Women fought for decades to achieve equality and the wearing of this shroud heralds a backwards step to the dark ages of female subjugation. It is very far from simply being an issue of choice of dress.