Sri Lanka to ban burqas, close over 1,000 Islamic schools

Associated Press ^ | March 13, 2021 | Bharatha Mallawarachi

[Olog-hai]

Sri Lanka on Saturday announced plans to ban the wearing of burqas and said it would close more than 1,000 Islamic schools known as madrassas, citing national security.

Minister of Public Security Sarath Weerasekara said he signed a paper on Friday seeking the approval of the Cabinet of Ministers to ban burqas — outer garments that cover the body and face worn by some Muslim women.

“The burqa has a direct impact on national security,” Weerasekara told a ceremony at a Buddhist temple on Saturday, without elaborating.

“In our early days, we had a lot of Muslim friends, but Muslim women and girls never wore the burqa,” Weerasekara said, according to video footage sent by his ministry. “It is a sign of religious extremism that came about recently. We will definitely ban it.” …

[jdsteel]

Buddhists have a long history with Muslim extremism and jihad.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Sri lanka’s Buddist?

[Chode]

had a Ceylonese surgeon early 80’s, nice man good surgeon

let’s just say he was NOT a fan of the koran even back then...

[Olog-hai]

70% Buddhist. It’s also the state religion. Close to 10% Mahometan, and about 13% Hindu.

[PGR88]

“In our early days, we had a lot of Muslim friends, but Muslim women and girls never wore the burqa,” Weerasekara said, according to video footage sent by his ministry. “It is a sign of religious extremism that came about recently.

Its a perverse effect of power politics and ideology. Just like the Soviets pushed global communism to build their empire, the Saudis are pushing Islamic radicalism to build their empire.

[stormer]

Primarily, and it’s weird they’d pick on the Muslims; Hindi Tamils have been raising hell forever in Sri Lanka.

[Olog-hai]

We’ve heard virtually nothing about them since the Tamil Tigers were beaten in 2009.

[ZULU]

God bless them

[ZULU]

Hindu/Buddhist/Muslim

[CodeToad]

Wow! Nice to see!

[Rusty0604]

I saw some European countries are doing that also.

[Chickensoup]

Best money they would ever spend is to buy them all tickets to resettle them in Pakistan. Would save their country

[Veggie Todd]

Sleepy46 won’t issue a burka mandate because it makes sniffing the girls too difficult.

[NWFree]

You can hide a bazooka under a burka

[chopperk]

Sri Lanka had only one choice to prevent their country from becoming another Indonesia. They had to stop the brain manipulation of their children.

[Flash Bazbeaux]

Absolutely. It is the place from where Buddhism spread to SE Asia. The “Therevada” Buddhist countries are Burma, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka.

[Hiddigeigei]

Burma, Ceylon, and Thailand are trying to do something about their Islamic “invasion.”

[mosesdapoet]

My former parish pastor (Catholic priest) came from Sri Lanka

[njslim]

Sri lanka’s Buddist?

About 70 % Buddist, 13 % Hindu, 10 % Moslem, 7 % Christian