Well, if the ones in the pictures are representative, at least the wearers’ faces can be seen. The ones that really pi$$ me off are the niqabs where nothing can be seen at... sometimes not even the eyes if there is mesh over the slits.
This basically is the extreme on the other side of public nakedness…that isn’t permitted because people aren’t animals. By the same token, people shouldn’t have full face cover when in public because they aren’t things.
Decades ago before I even knew of niqabs, I turned the corner of an aisle in a supermarket and walked into someone in one of those —complete with steel mesh. My jaw dropped, and I just froze. I didn’t mean to be rude, but it was monstrous looking and scared me for a moment. It looked like the boogeyman. And this was in L.A.County, not the Middle East!