Again, here in the secular, pluralistic, Western world, we believe in protecting peoples’ right to free **public **expression - whether that takes the form of speech, dress, assembly, etc. A woman’s decision to veil or unveil herself has no direct effect on anyone but herself. There are reasonable exceptions, of course, including photographs for ID documents and security checkpoints, where a woman’s decision to veil her face would directly counteract the interests of the general public. In those cases, I see nothing wrong with requiring women to unveil. However, when a veiled woman is going about her business on the street, you have no more right to demand that she expose her face to you than you do to demand that she expose her breasts.
For all your talk of Taleban this and tribal Islamists that, you seem to believe in the very same undemocratic, totalitarian principals on the government’s role in society and religion that guide their actions.