I frankly had not thought of the driving/safety issue. The issue for me is that people know each other by their faces. I don't want to deny anyone the right to be anti-social, which separating onesself from the community in that way certainly is. But it is important in many situations to be able to identify people by their whole faces, and the burka prevents that. And of course, it endangers the community if someone is driving while wearing one. Sheesh, that's a no-brainer!

And anyway, no one forced them to come here. They CHOSE to come here, and they should not having trouble adopting at least some of our customs. It would not even occur to me to go to another country and try to impose my value system on them. As the thread started, "When in Rome..."