This law is about religion, but not in the sense that this editorial makes out.

Wearing a niqab or a burka is a choice that a small minority of Muslim women make. Some would argue that it is a choice forced on them by men in their families, a form of patriarchal violence. But, it is not about religion, or freedom of religion. There is nothing in Islam generally that requires such head coverings. It is a choice, free or otherwise.

This law is about religion though, the religion, almost a cult, of secularism. It is as if Quebec society, having loosened and thrown off the yokes of Catholicism and the Roman Catholic Church, must now find another state religion or ideology to somehow buttress or collectivize Quebec society and culture. The law, then, is not about "accommodation", but about fear, somehow fear that the "other" if allowed to publicly exist (i .e. not show a face), will eat away at Quebec as a peoples, a modern society, even a nation.