I'm not going to comment on the rest of your post because I think you make some excellent points, and I don't really have much to add.

...But did you read the entirety of your article on the Burka Ban? The part you quoted was pretty divorced from the actual message she was trying to send:

Given the choice, I would never have embraced the niqab. My initial teenage revulsion was inspired by the fact that it was mandatory. Implicit in any law that proscribes women’s dress lies the most sinister, ideologically myopic assumption that a woman cannot be trusted not to succumb to pressure to dress a certain way...I do not see a potential ban on the burka in the UK as any different to the oppression in Saudi Arabia in terms of how it assumes that the way a woman dresses is never really down to her...To force a female to remove her veil is just as subjugating as forcing her to cover.

Don't just reduce the article to "Burka good," she's clearly advocating that a woman's choice is the most important factor in this discussion. I'm assuming you did this on purpose and, if so, the way you ripped that context away from her in an attempt to frame her worldview as prescriptive and oppressive is incredibly distasteful.