Authorities in Sri Lanka on Monday banned women from wearing face veils under an...
COLOMBO/KATTANKUDY, Sri Lanka - Authorities in Sri Lanka on Monday banned women from wearing face veils under an emergency law put in place after deadly Easter Sunday attacks by Islamist militants.
But there are concerns within the Muslim community that a prolonged ban could fuel tensions in the religiously-diverse nation that emerged from a civil war with ethnic minority Tamil separatists a decade ago. Separately, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, who is feuding with Sirisena, issued a statement saying he had asked the justice minister to draft regulations to ban the burqa.
“If you make it a law, people will become emotional and this will bring another bad impact ... it is their religious right,” he told Reuters.
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