I don’t agree that it’s a separate issue...... whether the masking is because of some moose-limb belief or because of antifa thuggery, it has the same effect of preventing one from seeing his/her face. The masked one can be peaceful or violent but masking is masking is masking and that simply isn’t part of what a civil society does. Besides, there have been plenty of suicide terrorist bomb attacks where it was a guy under the garb.
I was trying to be more sensitive to a religious belief, but you are right: you don’t know if it is the person they say they are because you can’t see them. I wonder how police deal with having to ticket a person in full covering when they can’t see if they match the driver’s license (if the woman is even allowed to drive.) And it could be a man under there.