Sri Lanka Easter bombings spurs call to ban burqas amid reports some of the attackers were women

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Not only is the burka a national security risk, it is misogynistic and deeply offensive and humiliating to women. The burqa is not a traditional Muslim garment and it has been identified as previously being used by males to engage in terrorist activities by hiding their identities.

Sri Lanka Easter bombings spurs call to ban burqas amid reports some of the attackers were women

By Travis Fedschun | Fox News April 23, 3019:

The Easter Sunday attacks on churches, hotels and other sites across Sri Lanka that killed over 300 people have now spurred some lawmakers to call for a full burqa ban.

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A bill was announced Tuesday on the Facebook page of UNP Parliamentarian Ashu Marasinghe to propose banning the burqa in Sri Lanka, citing national security.

The bill, which was posted on the MP’s Facebook page, says that the burqa is not a traditional Muslim garment and claims it has been identified as previously being used by males to engage in terrorist activities by hiding their identities.

Marasinghe added that women have previously been informed to remove the burqa before entering certain parts of the country, Sri Lanka news outlet Ada Derana reported.

In his Facebook post announcing the proposal, Marasinghe claimed that the country’s Muslim political leaders admitted it was not traditional attire.

Government officials told Sri Lanka’s Daily Mirror that evidence from the deadly attacks is pointing to the possibility of a large involvement by women who escaped from the scene wearing burqas.

Several government ministers are in consultation with mosque authorities and President Maithripala Sirisena on the pathway to a possible ban, according to the Mirror.

Of the 22.4 million people in Sri Lanka, about 70 percent of the population is Buddhist while just over 12 percent are Hindu, according to the State Department’s 2017 International Religious Freedom Report.

New surveillance video reportedly shows one of the suicide bombers walking into a church this past Sunday. At least 310 people now confirmed deceased from the Sri Lanka bombings.

Several countries in the past year have chosen to ban face veils for public sector workers. In October, leaders of the Muslim country Alergia banned female public sector staff from wearing full-face veils at work.

Egypt also considered banning women from wearing the burqa after a period of instability fueled by violence from radical Islamic groups.

Denmark’s facial covering law went into effect on last summer and brings the country in line with similar laws in France and Belgium that prohibit full-body burqas, as well the niqab — Muslim dress which only shows the eyes. Both are rare in Denmark.

The Danish government has contended the law is not aimed at any religion and does not ban headscarves, turbans or the traditional Jewish skull cap.

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Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
4 years ago

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Ban Islam
Ban Islam
4 years ago

Muslims are only 10% of Sri Lanka’s population (about 2 million) and they managed to kill 300 and injure 500.

This is the response after so many casualties, banning the burqa? Why not ban this evil religion and tell Muslims to get the hell out of the country or else?

I read elsewhere (and might be mentioned in another article on this site) that this attack was in retaliation for New Zealand, so we’ll get tit-for-tat and end up WW3.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Sri_Lanka

0349 JAT
0349 JAT
4 years ago
Reply to  Ban Islam

What happens when they reach 20% or 30% of the population?

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago
Reply to  0349 JAT

This is fairly reliable.

Jihad by the Numbers
By EDWARD CLINE July 3, 2008

Excerpt:

From Cline’s article:

BELOW TWO PERCENT Muslims are well-behaved citizens and cause little apparent trouble for the host society.

At TWO and THREE PERCENT Muslims begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs.

From FIVE PERCENT on Muslims exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population. They push for the introduction of halal (“clean” by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature it on their shelves—along with threats for failure to comply (United States, Switzerland, Sweden). At this point, Muslims work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves under Sharia, or Islamic law. (England, Netherlands, Philippines).

When Muslims reach 10 PERCENT of the population, they increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions (Paris—car burning). Any non-Muslim action that offends Islam will result in uprisings and threats (Amsterdam, Denmark—Mohammed cartoons, murder of Theo van Gogh).

After reaching 20 PERCENT of a population expect hair-trigger rioting, Jihad militia formations, sporadic killings and church and synagogue burning (Indonesia, Ethiopia).

After 40 PERCENT you find widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks and ongoing militia warfare (Bosnia, Chad).

From 60 PERCENT you may expect unfettered persecution of non-believers and other religions, sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon and jizya, the tax placed on [conquered] infidels (Sudan, Albania).

After 80 PERCENT, expect to find state-run ethnic cleansing and genocide (Syria, Egypt, UAE).

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.520/pub_detail.asp

John Acord
John Acord
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

God commanded the cult and its followers be annihilated. It is our duty to see HIS Commandment is carried out: In regard to the Canaanites, God commanded, “In the cities of the nations the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. Completely destroy them — the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites — as the LORD your God has commanded you. Otherwise, they will teach you to follow all the detestable things they do in worshiping their gods, and you will sin against the LORD your God” (Deuteronomy 20:16-18). The Israelites failed in this mission as well, and exactly what God said would happen occurred (Judges 2:1-3; 1 Kings 11:5; 14:24; 2 Kings 16:3-4). God did not order the extermination of these people to be cruel, but to prevent even greater evil from occurring in the future. TODAY “THESE PEOPLE” ARE THE MUSLIMS!

PedoHaterConservativeCanadian
PedoHaterConservativeCanadian
4 years ago
Reply to  0349 JAT

Sharia Laws become the standard.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

You read my mind.

Clem Jackson
Clem Jackson
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Mine too.

Art~Spectrum
Art~Spectrum
4 years ago

Hideous Burka, insult to womanhood! (Bible illuminated.) ~~ And, indictment of Muslim manhood! (Koran darkened.) …. Sinister visible reflection, devotion exhibited: “believer’s” dangerous fanatical obsession. Woman cloaked, life entombment. Isolating misled submission, outward display, alienating pagan religion. ~~ Manifold danger to Western society, dark-shadowed figures spreading.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
4 years ago

The left will fight for the burqa. Their idea of “progress” for the world.

Clem Jackson
Clem Jackson
4 years ago

The UK left have to go along with islam if there is to be any lasting peace and prosperity in the UK.
The English are a very respectfull kind and layed back type of people. Some factions see this as weak.
But these people must not bite the hand that feeds them.
The reason the left must go is that very similar to those who follow islam there is an IQ difficientcy, so they cannot distinguish right from wrong, good from evil.
The bbc on its radio stations have not mentioned once who the bombers were, as I have been monitoring it.
This is the biggest problem. The bbc could not wait to name the white man who killed all those in Christchurch. They systematically tried to destroy white supremacy, as they refered to it, to somehow appease muslims.
Oddly we have no issues with Indians, Christians, Sikhs, Hindus, Chinese, Buddhists. They embrace our way of life and do not try to change it in their favour.
Now to finish, here is an interesting comparison.
Adolf Hitler loved the islamic way of control and looked to adopt a similar stance. The muslims he encountered in the middle east fought on his side.
The Sikhs however fought alongside the British.
Food for thought.
I hope everyone had a good Easter and my thoughts and prayers go out to those poor people who are now having to come to terms with injuries or the loss of loved ones and friends or both in the Sri Lanka bombings.

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
4 years ago

Is the world ready to see their ughlee faces?

CreoleGumbo
CreoleGumbo
4 years ago

You’ve got my vote. But it also needs to be declassified as a religion.

mezcukor
mezcukor
4 years ago

Ban Islam .Period.

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