I'm back... To find my last comment didn't make it though. So much for rational discussion, when someone decides they would rather suppress than debate...We are back to comments being censored because someone objects to the argument made, not the civility with which they are made. 

Whether the veil is "normal" or "extreme" is precisely the issue. You are helping normalize the most repressive ideology regarding women ever devised by treating it as if it is "just a fashion choice, just a piece of cloth", etc. As the quote indicates,  it is the logical result of demands for extreme modesty, that results in women's erasure from social space.

If a western girl or boy refused to go out in the world, interact socially in mixed gender settings, insisted on hiding their face when going out of the house, etc., parents and teachers would be sounding alarm bells, just as they do when kids start cutting themselves, become anorexic, etc.. No one says, "It's their choice, let them be."