COLOMBO/KATTANKUDY: Authorities in Sri Lanka on Monday banned women from wearing face veils under an emergency law put in place after deadly Easter Su...
People stand outside a shop selling various kinds of coverings worn by Muslim women in Colombo, Sri Lanka, April 29, 2019. — Reuters: 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. “It is a presidential order to ban any dress covering faces with immediate effect,“ Dharmasri Bandara Ekanayake, a spokesman for President Maithripala Sirisena, toldSeparately, 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.
“We have given guidance to the Muslim women to not to cover their faces in this emergency situation,“ ACJU assistant manager Farhan Faris said after the scholars asked the government to drop plans for a law against the burqa and niqab.
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