Sri Lanka Burqa Ban Sri Lanka to soon ban burqa, shut down several Islamic schools: Minister
Colombo: A Sri Lankan Minister has said the country will soon ban the wearing of the burqa and shut more than a thousand Islamic schools.
Public Security Minister Sarath Weerasekera said he has signed the cabinet paper on the issue of banning wearing burqa.
He said steps would also be taken to ban more than 1,000 madrasa schools that are not registered in line with the national education policy, reports Daily Mirror.
The minister said the measures would directly impact the national security of the country.
"We know we had a lot of Muslim friends during our childhood. Muslim girls did not wear burqa (the veils that cover the faces of Islamic women) at that time. It is a symbol of religious extremism that came recently. It will definitely be prohibited along with the madrasas," the Minister was quoted as saying by the newspaper.
The wearing of burqa was temporarily banned in the country in 2019 following the bombing of churches and hotels by Islamic militants which had left over 250 people dead.
Sri Lanka is a Buddhist majority nation.
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