To kerchief or not to kerchief!

All over Europe the controversy is raging concerning the wearing of kerchiefs by Muslim women. 
Recently Austria's President, one Mr. Van der Bellen, suggested that if things progress in this vein, and this prejudice and resulting discrimination continues, it will soon become necessary to ask all Austrian women to wear such a kerchief, as a sign of solidarity.
You should have read and heard the storm of condemnation descending on our poor President for this statement.
Please don't ask me what in his suggestion was so objectionable.
I think that this was a very positive posture to take, one to shame those, who see something strange and foreign in a kerchief, forgetting that our Grandmothers, going at their daily chores, wore kerchiefs, some single colour black and others multi coloured and lively.
One might assume that things must be absolutely perfect and "honky-dory" in Europe, when this is all they have to worry about.
With the political ultra right wing raising its ugly dictatorial head in so many European countries, and people at a recent 1st May rally singing the "Internationale" while a balled fist is raised in the Communist signal of solidarity, one might think that a kerchief worn by a woman for whatever reason would be at the very bottom of the list of concerns.
With tax money being evaded by businesses, large and small, with tax money being spent recklessly by the Federal, Provincial and Municipal governments, a kerchief worn by a woman for some religious reason should disappear into such total unimportance as to not warrant even a single comment.
Because a terrorist calls upon Allah prior to exploding a bomb, a woman shall be prohibited from wearing a kerchief?
Will such craziness ever stop?

Bertstravels
asks this question seriously.