Similar ban starting among Muslims in India, too:

Quebec debating going much further with regulation of religious symbols:

Muslim women 'fundamentalists' if hijab not removed at work, Quebec lawmakers told

Quebec's legislature opens 2 weeks of hearings into controversial secularism bill

By Jonathan Montpetit @ CBC News, May 7

Quebec's hearings into a controversial secularism bill opened Tuesday morning with testimony claiming that Muslim women who refuse to remove their hijab at work are "fundamentalists.­"

The legislative committee examining Bill 21 arranged for several supporters of the bill to kick off the hearings. Among them was Djemila Benhabib, an outspoken advocate of limiting where religious symbols can be worn.  

If passed, the legislation would bar Quebec civil servants in positions of authority — including public teachers, police officers and Crown prosecutors — from wearing garments like the kippa or hijab while at work.

Benhabib, who represents a group called Collectif citoyen pour l'égalité et la laïcité, was asked if she thought all women who wear a hijab are religious extremists.

Not if they agree to take off their hijab while working civil service jobs, she replied. She added: "Women who wear the hijab … are engaging in emotional blackmail when they say they won't take it off. I consider them to be fundamentalists."

Premier François Legault disagreed with Benhabib's characterization of women who wear the hijab at work. "Let's be careful with the labels," he said [....]