http://www.dw.com/en/austria-burqa-b...law/a-40872491
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The laws were written in such a way to be religiously-neutral, but that has led to widespread confusion in the German-speaking nation. Vienna daily Der Standard reported that in one case a cyclist was stopped by police for covering her face with a scarf.
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This is the kind of nonsense that political correctness can lead to if always shying away from clear words and confronting what one wants to confront - but does not want to get pointed out for when confronting it.
They should have simply listed in the law what kind of religiously and ideologically motivated "facewear" is prohibited, and left it to that. But then somebody would have accused them of being Islamophobic, and so... Nonsense as a result. Serves them right. Cowardice has its own foul rewards, I guess.