Fuss over Hijabs

Ridiculous, do the religious police seriously consider it an offence for a lady to wear a head scarf?
I'm old enough to remember when ladies always covered their heads, especially in church. This was a Christian custom too.
We were a Christian country. It was out custom for ladies to cover their heads, men, because they all wore hats too, took them off in defference.
Look back in the Bible at 1 corinthians 11. Paul's letter states, every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven."

The Queen is often seen with a headscarf on. Does this make her disrespectful? She is the head of the Church here after all.
Isn't this all rather silly, a fuss about scarves.

Why Cover Up

I am for Religious Freedom, but in our country we are open and honest. Why hide?

Its our basic freedom, we know those with something to hide HIDE so why do some people insist on these niqabs?

They can be exploited for evil. It does no good.

When there are riots on the street the thugs cover up to hide their identity and it is now law the police can make them uncover so why are these veils different.

People going into Building Societies/Banks are not allowed to wear MotorCycle Helmets so these folk to should uncover.

I remember when Sikhs protested about not being allowed to wear Turbans instead of Helmets - they lost. A Turban will not save you in a crash.

Now its all about terrorism - we need to be able to identify people. If you've nothing to hide why should you care. It is our culture after all. What they do in other countries is up to them. If we go abroad we have to respect their society.

Now we see a rebellion amongst women - they must be free to choose, this must not be imposed on them - equality?