Switzerland to join 5* other European countries in banning "face coverings" in public, including burqa and niqab

Moreover, this also means activists will not be allowed to cover their faces during protests.

This project was spearheaded by the near-fascist far-right party of the UDC/SVP, under the guise of "giving women their dignity back" (ignoring that women who wear either clothing in Switzerland do so willingly), coming from a part with a terrible track record on women's rights no less!

They used posters like this (on the left) to illustrate their point:

Look at this fascist bullshit. Their illustration feels like she's standing too close for comfort, taller than you and with anger in her eyes. The reason they made this into a cartoon is that no one in their right mind would pose for this and it would get the "left" to call them fascists again, which they absolutely are. But apparently that's not doing them any harm.

Many of these posters were vandalized at least. I haven't really seen any around me, but I'm tempted to carry spray paint to completely deface this kind of shit in the future now.

It seems you can make anything pass if you invoke freedom. Where is the freedom in preventing people from wearing what they want? Is this really the best way to deradicalize the, what, 100 people that wear either clothing in Switzerland? Or is this rather going to make them think they are not welcome and leave? Which is probably the result these fascists want deep down, but of course they'd never say it.

As citizens were asked to vote on this initiative, this doesn't mean that some out-of-touch bourgeois senators thought this was the correct decision for their bourgeois interests. This means that more than half the population with the right to vote thought this was a good idea and saw nothing wrong with it.

This decision also comes 12 years after the same party passed an initiative to ban the construction of new minarets in Switzerland, despite imams not being allowed to use them to call for prayer and there being like 4 of them in the whole country.

I'm not sure how to proceed from here. How do you organise people when they are taken in so easily by lies? Is it even worth trying to push forward a society that is looking to become an ethnostate? You'll hear people say "I mean muslims can stay, they just have to obey our laws" but literally YOU made this law, if they're not citizens they don't get the right to vote. What they really mean is "I don't care about muslims living here or what they want so either they assimilate [ie ethnostate] or leave".

And then of course you have the liberals who'll say "you have to respect the democratic process!! Sure you didn't win this time, but you can win next time". Yeah well, it's been 11 years since we banned minarets for 0 fucking reasons and that's not been changing any time. Seems like we're not doing a whole lot of winning these years.