[AFAIK]

Insofar as both groups are passing legislation forcing women to dress a certain way, they are the same.

But it's secular forces in Turkey that banned headscarves and religious forces in Saudi that require them. The goals are completely different. Also, Turkish men aren't allowed to wear a Fez so it isn't a double standard.

Would you put the Chinese authorities who banned foot binding in the same category?

[Pants-of-dog]

But it's secular forces in Turkey that banned headscarves and religious forces in Saudi that require them. The goals are completely different. Also, Turkish men aren't allowed to wear a Fez so it isn't a double standard.

Yes, secular forces and religious forces can both restrict individual freedom.

And the end goals may also be different.

And this may even apply to men as well, so it is not a double standard as it is in the case of Saudi Arabia.

All these things are true, and it is also true that this law (like the Saudi law) oblige women to dress a certain way.

Would you put the Chinese authorities who banned foot binding in the same category?

No. I think there is an important distinction to be made between banning religious attire and banning foot binding.

Wearing religious attire does not harm other people.

Foot binding has a measurable negative impact on the health and safety of others.

So I would put the Chinese authorities who banned foot binding into a different category on this particular issue.

[Rancid]

I think laws should be passed to require women wear hijabs regardless of religion.

[Rich]

Pants-of-dog is correct. Let women decide for themselves, instead of banning them either way. Leave the choice to women, not to mealy-mouthed pinheads.

I commend Thailand for banning the Hijab in Thai schools. Sadly they have backed down against the international Muslim terror machine and their Cultural Marxist enablers

[Decky]

I commend Thailand for banning the Hijab in Thai schools. Sadly they have backed down against the international Muslim terror machine and their Cultural Marxist enablers

Have you not heard of the Soviet Afghan war? Marxists hate Mohammedans, it is you right wingers that want to jump into bed with them.

[Deutschmania]

Instead of funding media campaigns that target immigrant communities, exhorting them to let go of their ultra-orthodox reactionary belief systems and start assimilating into their new host culture. They're actually trying to manipulate weak-willed Westerners, hoping that they'll compromise their identity in favour of a foreign identity, which just walked right in one day and decided never to leave.

Historically , head scarves have been a part of European women's identity https://englishhistoryauthors.blogspot.com/2018/05/women-of-middle-ages-wimples-veils-and.html . And furthermore , the veil is not an undisputed requirement for Muslim women .