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I think the point is that a U.S. news station would never a hire a nun if she insisted on wearing her religious outfit while reporting the news. In my mind it would be even less defensible for the talking head of an ostensibly secular government to ever wear religious garb. But the nun/habit issue doesn't really line up with the hijab issue, given that a nun in some sense is a position of authority, and I regret introducing that analogy.
Now I prepare to duck... how exactly is following a millennial old religious rule only for women, a rule which is followed by a large majority of your country's population, in any way a feminist choice? It seems to be the epitome of not making a choice.
I'm going to go off in a corner now to excoriate myself before the sky falls on me.
