Why many Sri Lankan Muslim women find the new face veil ban unfair 'The burqa ban being imposed as a security reason has no connection to the current situation -- the suicide bombers wore a shirt, pants, backpacks and hats,' one Niqab-wearing woman says.
marked with red crosses on illustrations of women wearing burqas began circulating on buses and in public places across the country. that many Muslim women across the globe wear out of devotion to God.
For Fathimah, it's unfair to be on the receiving end of the violent act someone else has done. Since Daesh took responsibility for the Easter Sunday attack, she has never considered the self-proclaimed caliphate among the believers and instead refers to the group as ‘so-called Muslims’. Fathimah believes the government gave in to the pressure mounted by far-right, anti-Muslim groups and announced the ban under the emergency law.
the government's failures in keeping a tab on Daesh returnees, saying that they were aware of their presence, but could not arrest them as "joining a foreign terrorist organisation is not against the [country's] law".the suspected bombers were educated abroad before returning to Sri Lanka.) to detain suspects without court trials. The government has long been criticised for shielding the armed forces with PTA since 1978 and encouraging state brutalities against minorities.
“Some supermarkets have signs saying no face cover. Sometimes people who cover their heads with their shawls, even they're harassed because of their Muslim identity,” Ahmed said. The ban also comes against the backdrop of rising tensions between the country's two million Muslims and the majority Buddhist population. The Tamil minority, which includes Muslims, and Sinhalese Buddhist majority clashed in 2014, when an anti-Muslim“The face cover has huge symbolic resonance and has been a trope that was used by the anti-Muslim movement in Sri Lanka.
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