It was thrown out because the plaintiffs couldn’t prove they were injured by the minaret ban. So watch for the Islamic supremacists to cover that angle next time. “Legal move against minaret ban thrown out,” from SwissInfo, July 8:
The European Court of Human Rights has rejected appeals against a ban on the construction of new minarets in Switzerland.
Judges ruled that the plaintiffs — three Muslim organisations and a private citizen — were not victims of an alleged human rights violation.
The Strasbourg-based court on Friday announced that the complaints by the applicants were not admissible.
“The main complaint was that a disputed constitutional provision offended their religious beliefs. However, they did not allege that it had had any practical effect on them,” the statement said.
The applicants could not prove either that they were indirect victims because none of them was planning on building a mosque with a minaret in Switzerland in the near future, it added.
The appeals were lodged in December 2009 following approval of a controversial rightwing initiative in a nationwide vote.
A majority of 57.5 per cent of Swiss voters came out in favour of the rightwing initiative in November 2009.
Why is it “rightwing” to oppose the spread of a triumphalist and repressive political ideology that will extinguish the freedom of speech and deny women basic rights?