The sexist Islamophobic comments on this article make me feel like I'm reading the National Post, not the Globe and Mail. Canadians rightly rejected Harper when he wanted to institute a discriminatory hijab/niqab ban at citizenship ceremonies, but now they are all for humiliating Muslim women who believe covering their faces from the leers of strange men is a matter of modesty. What's next? Forcing women to bare their breasts in public to prove they really are who they say they are? After all, how can you tell if this person is really a woman if you can't see her breasts?

Proponents of this law claim they want Muslim women to "integrate" (i.e., assimilate--in a country that is officially multicultural for other people), but Muslim women are not going to do either if they never leave the house because doing so requires them to do what to them is equivalent to baring their breasts. However, this could radicalize young Muslims who see their mothers and sisters publicly shamed.