Burka in Germany: Interior minister calls for curbs

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Originally Posted by Skybird

The law of our Western lands have to be the standard and rule here. The only one.

No special deals, no parallel laws, no relgiously motivated parallel justice.

If they want it like you described, they have to leave and go back to any of those many countries where their ways are not only not controversial, but are in conformity with local cultural habits and laws. I care little for what they do in Saudi Arabia or Iran. But Saudi or Iranian rules used for legislation in Western nations - that is something I do not tolerate. "My house, my rules. You comply, or you leave. Period."

It's not a case of bending a European rule to follow an Islamic one, it's a case of making it smoother for those enforcing European rules by proving that both can be used at the same time.
For example, if a woman is arrested, she has the right to be strip-searched by a female police officer. Now this has got nothing to do with religion but common decency. I see no reason why a similar case cannot be made for Burqa wearers and female security officers. If a prominant religious figure says that this is so, then it becomes easier for security officers who don't need to keep calling in the local Imam every time a woman refuses to take her Burqa off. That's the carrot approach.
Of course, you can do the stick approach and just arrest them for obstruction, but I think you'd have a lot of full womens prisons which are hotbeds for extremist recruitment by the end of it. Another time where rash reactionary methods end up creating a bigger problem than the one they were trying to solve.