Re: if a women is Free…
I read her post but that’s not what I was referring to. As a man who’s married to a woman who wears the niqab, I sometimes get lectured about women’s rights by some women who assume that I’m forcing her to dress the way she does. So it’s definitely not only when a woman is forced that they have a problem. Their problem is that essentially what I mentioned.
As someone who has been on the receiving end of their lectures, I can tell you that it’s certainly NOT only an issue of identification. Uncovering of the face for relevant officials for identification purposes is not an issue. Especially in the context of the OP.
For the most part it’s about them forcing their opinion of what a woman covering herself in that manner means (i.e. that she’s oppressed, whether she feels it or not).