Swiss Vote to Ban Mosque Minarets
Posted on 30. Nov, 2009 by Shera Crossan in Immigration, Politics, Religion, Top Stories
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Swiss voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional ban on minarets on Sunday, barring construction of the iconic mosque towers in a surprise vote that put Switzerland at the forefront of a European backlash against a growing Muslim population. About 300 people turned out for a spontaneous demonstration on the square outside parliament, holding up signs saying, “That is not my Switzerland,” placing candles in front of a model of a minaret and making another minaret shape out of the candles themselves.
The country’s four standing minarets, which won’t be affected by the ban, do not traditionally broadcast the call to prayer outside their own buildings. The sponsors of the initiative provoked complaints of bias from local officials and human-rights group with campaign posters that showed minarets rising like missiles from the Swiss flag next to a fully veiled woman. Backers said the growing Muslim population was straining the country “because Muslims don’t just practice religion.”
“The minaret is a sign of political power and demand, comparable with whole-body covering by the burqa, tolerance of forced marriage and genital mutilation of girls,” the sponsors said. They said Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan compared mosques to Islam’s military barracks and called “the minarets our bayonets.” Erdogan made the comment in citing an Islamic poem many years before he became prime minister.
Anxieties about growing Muslim minorities have rippled across Europe in recent years, leading to legal changes in some countries. There have been French moves to ban the full-length body covering known as the burqa. Some German states have introduced bans on head scarves for Muslim women teaching in public schools. Mosques and minaret construction projects in Sweden, France, Italy, Austria, Greece, Germany and Slovenia have been met by protests.More from source
GOOD for the Swiss, about damn time and as for the other white countries, good for them. This is a step in a positive direction, these are white countries and NOT colored countries. If non whites do not like it, tough snot. Apparently, non whites like their whites to be submissive, well thats over with, no more.
IT IS ALMOST TIME. THE RAHOWA IS COMING!
GET READY TO FIGHT!
Jeez…I hope the U.S. wakes up! We are a very few years behind the Muslim Invasion of Europe! “Don’t unpack~We’ll send you back”! On a boat, or in a bag, you stinkin’ mulims are a drag! RAHOWA!
Did you ever wonder why all these colored people are imigrating to WHITE COUNTRIES, but notice that WHITES are not imigrating to mulim countries? Gee…I wonder why that is?
The liberal apologists will try to overturn this law even though it was enacted by the citizens thru right of voting.
Democracy only exists with laws restricting whites.
Slobo, today you have earned the “Obviously Awesome” award for the day…your obviousness amused me.
Way to go Switzerland!!! This is some of the best news I’ve read all day. Weißer Stolz!!!!!
Weißer Stolz!!!!! pride….good for you good for western civilization
Glad someone somewhere has the foresight to preserve their cultural identity, and sense of national sovereignty – the things that make a country whole. The 70 million white people in the U.S. are so divided, we might as well be a hundred different groups from a hundred different planets.. -divided we fall-
What I don’t get is that these folks come to our countries because their’s are “a shit hole” but want to bring there “shit hole” beliefs with them?!? WTF? Wouldn’t you want to behave like a white person, enjoy and participate in what our culture has created that your own can’t?
You can never beloieve it,the same man camgpained for the bsnning has embraced Islam.