Xenophobic much Grant ? lol, Never took you for a bigot but I guess everyone gets surprised.
To answer your question, this would never happen in NY because a) US government would never ban burkas or discriminate against any religon and b) US citezens would actually fight back if the muslims in the US tried to flex their muscle. YOu have to realize that their extremists in any religion right? What about al those good old Christian boys hanging balck people by the trees down south, were they not dangerous?
Anyways, If the US people start to treat Islam this way then this country is truely fucked becasuse it is going back on the principles that it was founded on, burning religous books and flags is the cowardly, hippi, extremist and nazi way not the American way. USA is better than that and I'm not even an American and I know that.