A little note about the Niqab controversy in France

Salaam all!
Just wanted to talk about an issue that is really upsetting me at the moment. For a couple of months, French legislators have been trying to ban the niqab, and they are looking at various ways to do so. At first, they called for a ban on security grounds, saying that everybody needs to be identifiable at all times, and used examples of women refusing to remove their niqabs in council houses, airports and other places where identification is necessary. Personally, the sisters I know who wear the niqab generally remove it in such situations, but anyway... The last couple of weeks, they decided to use the "human dignity" card, since the niqab is apparently an insult to human dignity. What if the women wear it by themselves, from their own free will, will you ask? (and it's actually what primary researches found: an important number of niqabi women in France are actually convert and wear it against their family's will). Well, even if they wear it by themselves, they must have been brainwashed somehow, even if they don't realize it, according to French authorities. And that's where I get really upset. Is the French government saying that Saudi women are insulting human dignity by covering up? What about women that are forced into prostitution, or obliged to do lap danced to feed their children? Is that not an insult to human dignity? What about rising number of rapes in France, the paedophile  networks that have important connections and never get prosecuted, the terrible treatment of inmates, the blatant racism of many institution? The fact is, it's been a while since France has deserved its title of " country of human rights". France is a country that hasn't apologized for its colonization of North Africa and the death of several millions of people, and still insists on the "positive aspects" of this dark period of French history. Worse, it seems the French establishment still acts as the colonizer, trying to "unveil" French Muslims, in the same way as they unveiled Algerian women on public places 50 years ago. Today I'm ashamed to be citizen of a country where everyday individual freedom is limited, I'm ashamed of the way my country has been acting, both towards its own citizen and towards other countries, joining the US in a war that we originally refused, and ratifying the European treaty when the majority of French citizen voted against it by referendum. Brothers and sisters, please make duahs for French sisters that are living in a quite hostile environment and will surely have more difficult times to come.