A customs official said Wednesday that Sri Lanka had banned this week’s issue of Time magazine over its cover story on Myanmar’s sectarian violence between Buddhists and Muslims because it could affect religious sentiments in its country, which is mainly Buddhist. A spokesman for the customs department, Leslie Gamini, said it had confiscated 400 copies of Time’s July 1 edition because of a story on a prominent Buddhist monk in Myanmar bearing the headline “The Face of Buddhist Terror.” He said they were confiscated according to customs laws. Hate speech and even attacks on Muslim-owned businesses and mosques have become more common in Sri Lanka.