A woman has been fined £120 for wearing a burqa in public in Denmark.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6133591/Danish-police-fine-Turkish-tourist-wearing-face-veil.html …
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if it's wrong for Saudi Arabia to harass tourists who wear bikinis, then it's wrong to harass tourists who wear burqas in another country.
Countries have every right to make laws and to enforce those laws. When I lived in Qatar, I was told what the dress code was, and I adhered to it (even though I disagreed) because I was on their land.
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Key difference: live vs. passing through, also known as being a *tourist*. I hate the burqa too, Yaz, and there are legitimate reasons for a country to ban it. But people from other countries should not be tied to dress code laws if they're just visiting.
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But they are. In extreme cases, that guy in North Korea was arrested for taking a poster. Tourists in Singapore are fined for spitting out their gum. It’s the way laws across the planet work. There’s never an exemption for tourists.
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