First Sweden now Sri Lanka

https://www.dw.com/en/sri-lanka-to-ban-burqas-over-national-security-concerns/a-56865781

The Sri Lankan government on Saturday said it would soon outlaw the burqa, a loose garment which is sometimes worn by Muslim women to completely cover their face and body in public.

It was unclear whether the ban included the niqab — another type of garment worn by some Muslim women that covers the face but leaves the eyes open.

The Buddhist-dominated nation has already introduced a temporary ban on burqas following terror attacks which killed over 260 people in 2019.

Curbing 'religious extremism'

"The burqa has a direct impact on national security," said Minister of Public Security Sarath Weerasekara on Saturday.

"In our early days, we had a lot of Muslim friends, but Muslim women and girls never wore the burqa," Weerasekara said, according to video footage sent by his ministry.

"It is a sign of religious extremism that came about recently. We will definitely ban it."

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oops

Big badda-boom coming

https://www.syriahr.com/en/208823/

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has monitored today new convoy of the International Coalition forces entering Syrian territory via the Kurdistan region of Iraq, where a column of 35 trucks carrying military and logistical equipment entered via Al-Walid border crossing with the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The trucks headed towards the Coalition military bases in Al-Hasakah countryside.

It is worth noting that this is the 16th convoy of the International Coalition and U.S. forces to enter Syrian territory in 2021 and the second in this month.

This is screwed up

https://www.theverge.com/2021/3/13/22328969/judge-grants-xiaomi-injunction-us-restrictions

Judge blocks US restrictions against Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi

The judge said he was “skeptical” that the company was a threat to US national security

A federal judge has blocked the US Department of Defense from placing restrictions on Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi that were set to take effect next week.

Just before former President Trump left office in January, the DoD designated Xiaomi as a “Chinese Communist military company,” (CCMC) making it subject to Trump’s executive order banning the US from investing in such companies. But late Friday, U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras issued a preliminary injunction to prevent what he called “irreparable harm” to Xiaomi, saying the designation was “arbitrary and capricious.”

In his Friday ruling, Contreras called into question the Trump administration’s argument that “civilian Chinese companies” like Xiaomi allow the Chinese government to “directly threaten the United States homeland.”

“The court is somewhat skeptical that weighty national security interests are actually implicated here,” the judge wrote.

>>13199090

I thought I had heard that name before

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/03/16/contreras-recusal-conflict-fbi-agent-peter-strzok-friends-with-flynn-judge-rudolph-contreras/

For those following the increasingly curious case against General Mike Flynn, events take another unusual turn today. Congressional investigators have shared a set of unredacted text messages between FBI Agent Peter Strzok and his cohort DOJ Attorney Lisa Page which reveal a personal friendship between Agent Strzok and Flynn’s initial presiding judge Rudolph Contreras.

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Everybody send him your suggestions

https://www.newsweek.com/democratic-rep-gerry-connolly-calls-j-edgar-hoover-racist-proposes-renaming-fbi-hq-1575964?piano_t=1

Representative Gerry Connolly (D-VA) proposed stripping J. Edgar Hoover's name from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) headquarters building in Washington, D.C,, and called him a "maligned character" with a history of racism, homophobia and misogyny.

On Saturday, Connolly appeared in a video message on MSNBC's The Cross Connection advocating for the change after he introduced legislation to remove the former FBI director's name on February 25.