The Right to Expression....Apparel Choice... Muslim Veil

So what we were waiting for has happened:

the first woman in France for wearing a veil in public has been fined.

The apparel:  the niqab or burqa which covers all except the eyes.

It happened at a shopping center in the Paris suburb of Yvelines on April 11, 2011.
Fine: 150 Euros ($217).

Also, a small protest of 5 people took place in front of Notre Dame Cathedral,

led by French businessman Rachid Nekkaz, 

who offers to pay for these women's fines
through his newly formed association:

Association Touche Pas a Ma Constitution (Hands Off My Constitution).

Kenza Drider, a French Muslim of North African descent,
wearing a niqab at the Gare de Lyon railway station
in Paris April 11, 2011 (not woman fined)
(photo Jean-Paul Pelissier)

The French Government's website about this law declares:
"The French Republic lives with an open face."
(La République se vit à visage découvert.)

French government poster

I searched for statistics on burka-wearing persons committing crimes,
but I've been unsuccessful, so at this point, I can't see how
this law can protect others' Right to Security.

Being annoyed or uncomfortable with being only able to see a person's eyes
is not reason enough to take away people's Right to Apparel Choice.

This French law is not choice.

(see also:  The Right the Apparel Choice)