Enlightened folk know it is not bigoted or sexist.  Hirsi Ali, Khaled Hosseini, Yasmina Khan, Marjani Satrapi, Dr. Taj Hargey are men and women of Islamic backgrounds  and like many other scholars and academics they all agree face veil is a cultural misogynistic practice against women with no religious merit.  It is nothing more then ensuring a woman remains a non entity , invisible to men.