{"id":73682,"date":"2021-03-14T15:03:37","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T15:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/?p=73682"},"modified":"2021-03-17T13:39:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T13:39:57","slug":"sri-lanka-to-ban-burqa-and-shut-more-than-1000-islamic-schools-minister-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/73682-sri-lanka-to-ban-burqa-and-shut-more-than-1000-islamic-schools-minister-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka to ban burqa and shut more than 1,000 Islamic schools, minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/photo_2021-03-14_23-29-47-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-73817\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/photo_2021-03-14_23-29-47-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/photo_2021-03-14_23-29-47-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/photo_2021-03-14_23-29-47-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/photo_2021-03-14_23-29-47-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/03\/photo_2021-03-14_23-29-47.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka will ban the wearing of the face covering burqa and shut more than a thousand Islamic schools, a government minister said on Saturday, the latest actions affecting the country&#8217;s minority Muslim population.<br>Minister for public security Sarath Weerasekera told a news conference he had signed a paper on Friday for cabinet approval to ban the full face covering worn by some Muslim women on &#8220;national security&#8221; grounds.<br>&#8220;In our early days Muslim women and girls never wore the burqa,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It is a sign of religious extremism that came about recently. We are definitely going to ban it.&#8221;<br>The wearing of the burqa in the majority-Buddhist nation was temporarily banned in 2019 after the bombing of churches and hotels by terrorists that killed more than 250.<br>Later that year, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, best known for crushing a decades-long insurgency in the north of the country as defense secretary, was elected president after promising a crackdown on extremism.<br>Rajapaksa is accused of widespread rights abuses during the war, charges he denies.<br>Minister Weerasekera said the government plans to ban more than a thousand Islamic schools that he said were flouting national education policy.<br>&#8220;Nobody can open a school and teach whatever you want to the children,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka will ban the wearing of the face covering burqa and shut more than a thousand Islamic schools, a government minister said on Saturday, the latest actions affecting the country&#8217;s minority Muslim population.Minister for public security Sarath Weerasekera told a news conference he had signed a paper on Friday for cabinet approval to ban &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":73817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,31,30],"tags":[690,1429,1387],"class_list":["post-73682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-news","category-world","tag-burqa","tag-islamic-schools","tag-sri-lanka"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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