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And why not? Surely Muslims allow churches to flourish and tower high in Dar al-Islam, allowing Christians to exclaim five times a day, on megaphones, that "Jesus is the Son of God!" Oh, they don't; oh, some Muslim nations don't even allow the construction of churches. Never mind, then. More on this story. "Swiss government opposes minaret ban ahead of vote," from the AP, August 27:
The Federal Council recommended on Wednesday rejecting the ban when it goes to popular referendum in two months.The coalition government includes all major political factions except the right-wing Swiss People's Party. It is the strongest in the country and most supportive of the ban.
The government says the proposal violates human rights and the Swiss constitution and would not help combat Islamic fundamentalism.
Supporters of the ban say the minaret is a symbol of Muslim conquest that challenges traditional order in Switzerland.
That it most certainly is. According to the subscription-only Brill Online Encyclopedia of Islam: “[T]hroughout the mediaeval period, the role of the minaret oscillated between two polarities: as a sign of power and as an instrument for the adhan (call to prayer). However, in evidence that it was mostly viewed as a sign of power, the entry concludes: “It [the minaret] seems on the whole unrelated to its function of the adhan calling the faithful to prayer, which can be made quite adequately from the roof of the mosque or even from the house-top.” Not to mention, devout Muslims are supposed to know when to pray and shouldn't need constant reminding.
Posted by Raymond at August 27, 2008 8:45 AM
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Too much money.
Too many of those petro-dollars are being deposited in Swiss bank accounts. This cosy arrangement cannot be upset by a few mosques and minarets in the Swiss alps.
The Swiss government stooges are whores just like the French. When it comes to money everything else goes on the back burner...
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at August 27, 2008 9:28 AM
Minarets are similar to the Babylonian ziggurats, the most famous, 'The Tower of Babel'...
And towers of babble they are. Sex symbol, power symbol, closeness to Allah by elevation.
God in the Bible did not care much for ziggurats and destroyed them. None survive today, not even the Tower of Babel.
But Allah seems to like minarets, at least he has not destroyed any that I know of. They are also symbols of his dominance.
The Swiss Gov is admitting by allowing minarets that Allah is the god of the land.
I would say.'God save Switzerland', but I doubt he will do it, if the gov is bent on honoring Allah...
Posted by: duh_swami at August 27, 2008 9:43 AM
Switzerland has for decades been the home, or the second or tenth home -- for many rich Arabs. The Omani doctor, the Kuwaiti contractor, the Saudi prince with houses in Vevey, Lausanne, Montreux, who merely spend money, and money, and money, and of whom Swiss bankers and real estate men are naturally and inordinately fond -- provide a kind of brake, based on short-term interests, to a sensible realization that those ever-expanding and ever-more numerous mosques, in a country that has prided itself (and sometimes, as in the period 1938-1945, shamed itself), on keeping non-Swiss out, are not quite seen as the threat they are, and of course it does not help that the anti-mosque or anti-minaret campaign is led by someone who can easily be identified as on the "right" or "far right."
It would help, in Switzerland, if those Swiss who receive short-term financial benefits from their deals with rich Arabs -- fine fellows all, natrually, not like the "extremists" who are "easily identified" and "can be dealt with" --had a bit more patriotism, and less cupboard love, so directly related to their own self-interest, and so little related to the national interest, correctly defined.
And it would help if others, especially in the French-speaking parts -- Geneva, Lausanne, Vevey, Montreux -- of Switzerland, among those who are certifiably "un-right-wing," were to grasp the meaning, and therefore the permanent menace, of Islam.
But this requires a coming-to-their-senses by many more people. Otherwise, even without being a member of the E.U., the Swiss -- supposedly so solicitiousness of their national identity -- may succumb, at a slower rate, of course, than in Great Britain or France -- to an ever-larger Muslmi presence, and the issue of the minaret, a good one because it is now widely understood that the minaret is not essential to the mosque, but was adopted as a symbol of power by early Muslims, a way of o'ertopping existing bell-towers of the Christians, and the minaret has been seen as a symbol of such power, bristling with aggression ("the minarets are our bayonets" as a Turkish Muslim leader said) and symbols of Islamic triumphalism.
One hopes that there will be a citizens' revolt against the bien-pensants of the Swiss government, but where's the William Tell, or a million of them?
Posted by: Hugh at August 27, 2008 9:50 AM
Total Madness, its all madness, the system of our good world is being used by evil people who want the death of all Jews and Christian.
keep a good eye on Obama, if he becomes the next U.S.President.
Posted by: Fred Dawes at August 27, 2008 10:01 AM
In this, The Swiss Federal Council is not serving the national interest....the spiritual welfare of the people. It is over-concerned with material wealth...the 800 bn dollars of Arab money deposited in their banks. It's time for Switzerland to choose integrity and self preservation over the mercenary path to darkness.
Posted by: johndoe at August 27, 2008 10:28 AM
Didn't the Swiss manufacture ammo for the Nazis during WWII? And what happened to all that money that the German Jews deposited in Swiss accounts? Just asking.........
Posted by: tanstaafl at August 27, 2008 7:08 PM
The Swiss will regret the minaret.
Islam is a subversive imperialistic movement aiming at a global theocratic tyranny.
First to go... the Swiss flag.
Posted by: profitsbeard at August 28, 2008 12:15 AM
"Swiss government pro-minaret"
Wrong. They are against forbidding it as a religious symbol. There actually other ways (construction law is communal).
Personnally, I think the move of the Councellors is totally innecessary.
And to Hugh et aliii who are envious of swiss wealth: Thank you! Envy is the only honest compliment.
Posted by: FreeSpeech at August 28, 2008 3:18 AM
One concession at a time...
Until it is too late to go back. That's the plan and it's working like a charm.
Posted by: CitizenWarrior.com at August 29, 2008 12:29 AM
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