Sri Lanka to ban burqa, shut many Islamic schools, minister says March 13, 2021 at 12:03AM

Sri Lanka will ban the wearing of the burqa and shut more than a thousand Islamic schools, a minister said on Saturday. "In our early days Muslim women and girls never wore the burqa," he said. "It is a sign of religious extremism that came about recently. We are definitely going to ban it," minister for public security Sarath Weerasekera said.