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Swiss Parliament votes to ban foreign-funded mosques, Arabic preaching

Sep 30, 2017 12:06 pm By Christine Douglass-Williams

Switzerland’s legislature has voted to ban the foreign funding of mosques, including from Saudi Arabia, as well as to force mosques to use local languages instead of Arabic or other foreign tongues.

This significant move by the Swiss legislature is to be widely applauded and followed by all Western governments that are interested in the preservation of democracy and human rights for all. Yet predictably, the ban is being deemed “Islamophobic”:

The legislation is not backed by the federal government, however, which claims it unfairly discriminates against Muslims by placing them under suspicion and fuels extremism.

Any action taken against Islamic supremacism (not Muslims who genuinely seek to assimilate and accept Western values and mores) is deemed “Islamophobic.” It is a strategy of stealth jihadists who are adept at fooling Westerners by manipulating diversity programs, guilt for past colonialist wrongs and political correctness. The biggest phobia in the West is to be called “racist.” This is so ingrained that authorities stood by and did nothing while Muslim grooming gangs were abusing young British girls by the tens of thousands, and possibly up to a million.

“Swiss Parliament Votes to Ban Foreign-Funded Mosques and Arabic Preaching” Liam Deacon, Breitbart, September 29, 2017:

Switzerland’s legislature has voted to ban the foreign funding of mosques, including from Saudi Arabia, as well as to force mosques to use local languages instead of Arabic or other foreign tongues.

The Swiss National Council, the parliament’s lower house, voted by a narrow majority to ban the financing of mosques from abroad and for generally increasing the transparency of how mosques are funded.

If the law passes the Senate, individual mosques will need to declare who they are backed by as well as preach in one of Switzerland’s official languages, namely German, French, Italian, or Romansch, Neue Zuercher Zeitung reports.

The vote took place on Tuesday, and according to the Federal Assembly’s website, 94 members of the parliament voted in favour, and 89 voted against.

The new law is said to be inspired by a similar law enacted in Austria in 2015, which was designed to encourage a distinctly “European Islam” and to deter radicalisation and foreign influence on the nation’s Muslims.

The legislation is not backed by the federal government, however, which claims it unfairly discriminates against Muslims by placing them under suspicion and fuels extremism.

They also oppose making mosques use local languages, insisting that it is an issue of freedom of language.

Last year, the federal government managed to block a law voted for by the Council, proposing the banning of the full-face Islamic face veil.

However, a ban on Islamic minarets was voted for in a referendum in 2009 and was approved by nearly 58 per cent of the population.

Saudi Arabia is well known for funding the spread of its radical, Wahhabist interpretation of Islam in Europe, including financing the construction of Finsbury Park Mosque in London. The mosque was notorious for its links to hate preacher Abu Hamza, shoe-bomber Richard Reid, and 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui before it was reformed and reopened in 2005…..

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  1. Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

    Sep 30, 2017 at 12:12 pm

    How romantic! Khutbahs in Romansch.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romansh_language

    What next? A papal bull decreeing that all khutbahs in the Vatican must be in Latin. This will bring linguistic diversity to the followers of Muhammad (cui sit pax).

    https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cui_sit_pax

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 5, 2017 at 3:46 am

      Mark, at least the Infidels will know what is being preached in Mosques.

  2. Walter Sieruk says

    Sep 30, 2017 at 12:32 pm

    The construction of the many mosques in both Europe and America not only means that more and more Muslims are entering those two continents and likewise more and more people in America and Europe are now being proselytized to Islam. This may be disturbing enough. In addition, this mass construction of mosques on America and Europe have still a further meaning which has been explained by a former Muslim who is now a Christian, Dr. Daniel Shayesteh, in his book ISLAM THE HOUSE I LEFT BEHIND for in page 99 it informs the reader that “The mosque is vital for establishing Muslims as sovereign over non-Muslims in a non-Islamic society or country. Building a mosque in a non-Islamic society or country symbolizes Islam’s claim over that society or country, even with a non-Muslim majority.”

  3. Stan Lee says

    Sep 30, 2017 at 12:34 pm

    The Swiss Parliament needs to stop appeasing the irritating element of demanding migrants, who not only want to reside in Switzerland, but to own it. This is the reward the Swiss receive for “allowing the camel into the tent.”
    Why the provision to exclude mosque building if financed by foreign interests? That leaves the Swiss ruling open to distortion and Muslim trickery, and most likely a Swiss law firm seeking a very sizeable fee to circumnavigate Swiss laws. Switzerland should stop being so dam–d politically correct and appeasing. It should just reject the building or enlargements of any mosques, new or now in existence.
    What is Switzerland’s ultimate goal in this, to convert your nation into another Germany? Keep appeasing and Switzerland will certainly be another Germany!

  4. Lydia says

    Sep 30, 2017 at 1:28 pm

    Great!

    I applaud them loudly!
    The right move.

    If I were a ruler over a nation I would ban all mosques from being built from the start, I would only allow churches and synogogues, but no other religious buildings or schools either. The law would reflect God’s law and the God of the Bible would be honored in it. Of course no one would be forced to ‘do’ anything. But if they don’t like national prayers in Jesus’ name including in school, the Bible being read in school by teachers and any students who want to, “Merry Christmas” in bold view in public in the holiday season, only marriage between a man and a woman, and no legalized abortion, etc. etc., then they can relocate to Iran or some other muslim ruled country or North Korea or China where atheism and other false dogmas rule and see how they can better enjoy the fruits of those ideologies that have taken over a land!

    If there is a void, they will fill it, and those are the rotten fruits of the thing they have filled it with. When they abandon the true God of the Bible, that is what they get… so if that is what they want… let them go there… be my guest! We might let you back in when you are desperate enough… ( ;

    • Carolyne says

      Oct 1, 2017 at 11:25 am

      Living in a Christian theocracy would be as bad as a Muslim theocracy. Religions of any kind should not be in control of a country. Keep all religions where they belong; In their places of worship, not in government.

      Banning subversive mosques bought and paid for by Saudi Arabia should not be allowed anywhere except Saudi Arabia. And all religious institutions should use the local language. It was not too long ago that Roman Catholic masses were in Latin. It was the same. The congregants could not understand what was being said, although as far as I know, they were not preaching sedition and violence.

      The Muslim call to prayer should be abolished in civilized countries. It sounds like a camel in heat. Perhaps it is..

      • gravenimage says

        Oct 5, 2017 at 3:50 am

        Where are there Christian theocracies?

  5. mohamonator says

    Sep 30, 2017 at 1:58 pm

    This was ONLY possible because Switzerland has thus far declined to join the European Union. If the Swiss collectively lose their minds and join the EU, this law and many others as well, will have to be repealed.

  6. Guest says

    Sep 30, 2017 at 6:24 pm

    Good for the Swiss

  7. David Stephenson says

    Sep 30, 2017 at 7:33 pm

    I very sensible step. Hope it passes the senate and becomes law.

  8. abad says

    Sep 30, 2017 at 7:51 pm

    Good.

    Switzerland has long been a neutral country IOW Islam has no place in that nation

  9. Mockingjay says

    Sep 30, 2017 at 8:03 pm

    Better late than never I say – but it is very, very, very late for this measure.

    – The poison has already gone in.

  10. Rich says

    Sep 30, 2017 at 8:29 pm

    CUT THE CRAP. ISLAM MUST BE EXTERMINATED. HERE’S HOW.
    Islam is a political system, NOT a religion, and unless and until humanity wakes the hell up and STOPS referring to it as a religion, there is no hope. Islam is a hyper-aggressive, militaristic, expansionist, totalitarian political system designed to create a super-rich micro-oligarchical ruling class with a massive, destitute, genetically handicapped underclass below.
    Here is a quote from Osama bin Laden that sums it all up:
    “Our talks with the infidel West and our conflict with them ultimately revolve around one issue; one that demands our total support, with power and determination, with one voice, and it is: Does Islam, or does it not, force people by the power of the sword to submit to its authority corporeally if not spiritually? Yes. There are only three choices in Islam: [1] either willing submission [conversion]; or [2] payment of the jizya, through physical, though not spiritual, submission to the authority of Islam; or [3] the sword, for it is not right to let him [an infidel] live. The matter is summed up for every person alive: Either submit, or live under the suzerainty of Islam, or die.”
    –Osama Bin Laden
    (The Al Qaeda Reader, p. 42)

    Well, you can pour maple syrup on a puddle of bloody, diarrhetic hogshit all you want, but it will never, ever be pancakes.
    THIS is how the musloid problem should be faced and solved. It isn’t difficult.
    Use the only thing they understand – PHYSICAL FORCE AND STRENGTH.
    Aggressively proselytize. Fully acknowledge that even a converted musloid, like a domesticated wild animal, will be dangerous for the rest of his life and can never be fully trusted.

    http://www.barnhardt.biz/2017/06/05/cut-the-crap-islam-must-be-exterminated-heres-how/

  11. mortimer says

    Sep 30, 2017 at 10:05 pm

    Ataturk insisted that the language of mosques be changed to Turkish, including all prayers. That would identify more easily when supremacist, cursing prayers are recited.

    As things are, in most mosques, ancient Arabic is the language of mosques and few understand it well, even the mosque attendees.

    It has been recommended that ALL sermons delivered in mosques should be reviewed in advance by police.

    • Karen says

      Oct 1, 2017 at 10:21 am

      Hmmm…..unintended consequences? If the sermons are delivered in “local languages”, then they may be more effective, which depending on the message, may make things worse.

  12. Tom says

    Oct 1, 2017 at 4:56 pm

    A liferaft of common sense in a sea of treachery, deceit, and appeasement. Well done the Swiss.

    The remaining nations of Europe are drowning in an ocean of self hatred and watching as the Titanic EU sinks around them.

    Their leaders playing their sad tunes upon the deck as they slowly tip toward total destruction.

  13. gravenimage says

    Oct 5, 2017 at 3:44 am

    Good for Switzerland.

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