But it's such a cute look

Philip Williams has an article at ABCNews.com about the new European crackdown on burkas:

Two women have been arrested by French police on the first day of new laws banning the wearing of full-face veils. The niqab-wearing women were taking part in a demonstration in protest at the new laws outside Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris.
"We were held for three-and-a-half hours at the police station while the prosecutors decided what to do. Three-and-a-half hours later they told us: 'It's fine, you can go'," said 32-year-old Kenza Drider (photo). Ms. Drider, who made regular international media appearances in her brown and cream niqab in the run-up to the ban, said she had lifted her veil only briefly and only in front of female officers for an identity check.
Police say the women were arrested for taking part in an unauthorised demonstration, and not because their faces were covered. But under the new laws, the wearing of a veil in France can now mean a fine of more than $200.
It is thought around 2,000 French women regularly wear the niqab or burka as part of their Muslim faith.
The new law has been criticised as a play for votes by an increasingly unpopular president Nicholas Sarkozy. French police fear it will be impossible to enforce, since they have not been empowered to use force to remove head coverings, and could face resistance in already tense immigrant districts. "The law will be infinitely difficult to enforce, and will be infinitely rarely enforced," Manuel Roux, deputy head of a union representing local police chiefs, said in an interview with France Inter radio. "It's not for the police to demonstrate zeal," he said, predicting that when patrol officers meet veiled women they will simply try to explain the law to them and to persuade them to remove their face covering. "If they refuse, that's when things get really complicated. We have no power to force them," he said. "I can't begin to imagine we're going to pay any attention to a veiled woman in a sensitive area, where men are proud."

Rico says that "in a sensitive area, where men are proud" is French for Muslim neighborhoods where the men are cranky about their women...