Quesque c'est?

Thousands of women marched through Paris on Saturday to press for equal rights for women and show support for a law to ban Islamic head scarves in public schools.

[ Yahoo! News - Thousands March in Paris for Women ]

So equal rights means restricting religious freedoms? Am I the only one who finds this all together backwards? What's next, civil rights marches to reinstate slavery?

Update: I've figured out what's next. To help blur the class lines, the French will ban clothing for women. And if that still allows for some degree of individuality (read non-equalness) they'll ban hair shortly after that, and require all women to go bald.