Colombo: Muslims in Sri Lankalinkwillface another ban for being in the minority as the Minister of Public Safetyof Sri Lanka said that the government would ban wearing the burqa and overa thousand Islamic schools will be shut down.
According to reports, the Minister of Public Safety, Sarath Weerasekera,told a news conference on Saturday that he had asked the cabinet to approvea ban on full-face veiling by some Muslim women on the grounds of ‘nationalsecurity’ Signed a paper on Friday.
“In our early days, Muslim women and girls never wore the burqa, butrecently we have seen it as a sign of ‘religious extremism’ and we aredefinitely going to ban it,” she said.
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It should be noted that the wearing of burqas was temporarily banned in theBuddhist-majority country in 2019 after militants blew up churches andhotels.
