Burqa, and many Islamic schools to be banned in Sri Lanka : Minister Sarath Weerasekera

A Government minister on Saturday said that, Many Islamic schools will be put on shut including the ban on wearing of burqa, this latest actions affecting the country’s minority Muslim population.
Sarath Weerasekera – Minister for public security 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 ” National Security” grounds.
By adding, Sarath said ” Nobody can open a school and teach whatever you want to the children”, so the government plans to shutdown more than a thousand madrassa Islamic schools which were floating the national education policy.
In addition Weerasekera claimed, “In our early days Muslim women and girls never wore burqa. Its a sign of  religious extremists which came about recently. “Wearing of burqa in Sri Lanka was temporarily banned in 2019 after the bombing of churches and hotels by Islamic militants that killed more than 250.
This ban was lifted earlier this year after criticism from the International Rights Groups and United States.