Is France Racist??

"Sarkozy Says He Supports Bill Banning Full Veils"
By Steven Erlanger

President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, is putting forward a bill in May that would ban the full veil in public. This article however we quite biased towards the French. This is a quote from the article: " On the left the veil is seen as repressive and a violation of women's rights, even though many women who wear the veil insist that they are doing it as a free choice and see a ban as a restriction of their liberty." It could only maybe be considered a violation of rights in the Arab countries that require women to cover their hair at the least, but to say this is repressive in a country like France does not make sense to me. Also, the article makes it seem as though the women who were asked about the veil said this because they have to; did the word insist really have to be used? Is France turning into a country that wants all of its people to look and behave the same ways, or is it trying to rid the country of its Muslims?