ForestCreature, the similarity I was talking about was in wanting to use the law to tell women what to wear on their heads.  There are people in both Saudi Arabia and now Canada who do that - and several posting in Globe comments who think it's a good idea.

Of course there are many muslim women who don't wear the niqab.  (I'm not sure why you think that was in dispute.)  But to use a clothing-related metaphor, several posters are getting their knickers in a knot over the small number who do wear it.