The United Nations criticized that the Government decision of ban Burqa in Sri Lanka.
Real Admiral Minister Sarath Weerasekara said that in recent days, Madrasa schools and burqa will completely ban from Sri Lanka. Because they mentioned as a reason, it is a great threaten for the national security.
Special representative for freedom of religion and belief, Dr. Ahammed Shaheed said on twitter, according to the international law of Right to freedom of express one’s religious and belief, Sri lanka’s that decision is not guaranteed to international law.
The Special Representative also strongly condemned Switzerland’s ban on the burqa in a referendum.
“The underlying bigotry cannot be hidden under the cloak of democracy,” Ahmed Shaheed said on social media.
The Muslim Council of Sri Lanka has condemned the government’s latest dress code ban as an implementation of a racist agenda to appease the majority religion.
“This is an attempt to prove to Buddhists that they are pursuing Muslims,” Hilmi Ahmed al-Jazeera, vice-president of the Muslim Council, told the Associated Press.
There are also fears that people who do not know exactly what the burqa is are at risk of using it as a new restriction.
“Other than Muslims, no one knows the difference between the three dresses, the burqa, the hijab and the niqab.” The Daily Mirror’s deputy news editor, Jamila Hussein, told Al Jazeera.
However, some social media activists who mocked the government’s policies saw the government’s ban on the burqa as well as the carpet protest with the Sri Lankan national flag as a ploy to cover up reports that Sri Lanka had lost nearly Rs. 16 billion from the sugar tax.