this year the government went further, banning the niqab or full-face veil not just in schools but inall public places. the law affects a tiny minority of muslims, only a few hundred women wear it in france, but those who do were outraged. >> when i hear france -- liberty, equality, fraternity, it's a big lie. i feel like i'm in a dictatorship. >> the ban is a very bad thing because, you know, every muslim, even men and even women who don't wear the niqab, feel concerned, you know, feel rejected by this ban. >> but the vast majority in france approved of the ban, 80%, according to public opinion polls. >> look, i think secularism is indispensable. it's a protection so everyone has peace, believers and non-believers, and so all these religious, fanatic excesses are regrettable, appalling. i'm very much a feminist. i hate the idea of the veil. >> despite the new laws, a very public display of religion takes place every friday in this paris neighborhood. streets are closed to traffic so thousands of muslim men can pray outside a mosque that's much too small to hold them all, largely beca