I'm not the person you're responding to, but I've read their message a few times, and your response, and I think I see the mismatch. They said "I don't know how they could do this, but what they could do is ban prayer mats".

And I think you interpreted this as "I don't know how they'd enforce this. Oh, but here's an idea, we should get rid of prayer mats"

But the way I read it I think they meant "I don't know what this means for Christians and Jews, but I hope they don't use this simply to ban prayer mats and nothing else"

No no, this is legit. There have been times in the past something like this came up that appeared to apply broadly, but wouldn't you know it just happened to hit Muslims more than Christians. I had the same thought, which is that this sounds like a good thing, but I hope isn't secretly just trying to make Muslims lives worse in a way that won't impact other people.

Why would I ignore that the only way I can see to implement a prayer ban seems discriminatory against Muslims? That’s my whole issue and the point of my comment: a ban on prayer seems like it might be a whitewashed attack on Muslims.

The problem with this ban is what constitutes "religion", and what symbols are included.

• tattoos?
• names of places?
• holiday decorations?

People show their culture. It has historically not worked very well to suppress culture.