Public security

Yes, ban the burqa — it is a national security necessity

Georgia State Rep. Jason Spencer, a Republican, has given up his efforts to get his state to adopt a bill that, according to the Washington Post, would have forbidden wearing masks or other face coverings in public, and would have “banned men and women from wearing clothing that conceals their faces when posing for their drivers’ license photos or while driving on state roadways.” 

Spencer should not have withdrawn the bill. There was nothing wrong with it, and it would have curbed criminal and/or terrorist activity committed by people with their faces concealed. But Spencer’s bill ran afoul of the “Islamophobia” victimhood industry.

The Post story details what happened:

“The bill did not specifically mention Muslim women, burqas or niqabs, and Spencer insisted he had ‘no intention of targeting a specific group.’ But officials from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights group, said its purpose was pretty apparent.”