If the rules of "secularism" disproportionately impact people only of certain religions then that is displaying favoritism, implicitly saying "this religion is approved, this religion is not". That's not very secular.
GivingEuropeASpook
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I get what you're trying to say - historically "Muslim garb" was just "desert garb" suited to the dry heat but I do also think these terms have some religious connotation now.
What really grinds my gears in this is that actual Muslim feminists, not just white knight crusaders (and i pick that word deliberately) Europe are out there and people who claim to be worried about how Islam treats women could you know, listen to their perspectives instead of just assuming European "secular" values are objectively better.
So who then?
So now its "secularism is when some religions are better than others?"
No, secularism is when no hijab ./s
And who gets to decide?
Someone seems RATTLED
It's conveniently targeting one group and their religious expression. It's different when they do it to themselves, like in Turkey before the AKP took power and started weakening secularism there.
Ideological decisions don't care about precedent.
I haven't had anything remotely like this when sticking to my subscribed communities.
These laws seem ripe for exploitation by contrarian little shits who hate this bullshit and have nothing to lose if they get sued. Amtrak is in Texas – does it count if you're driving them to the station? What if you go off-road? Plus, if I get in my car with someone, what's to stop me and my abortion-seeking friend from driving through the town without stopping? How would anyone have cause to suspect me? If I get pulled over somehow, then this law can't apply, right? It's specifically private citizens.
Since it relies on people suing you, I feel like it leaves a lot of avenues open for someone with the right resources to fight in court.
Invading Russia = making political inroads into their historical sphere of influence. The "existential" threat to Russia is that it loses its historic colonial outposts.