The Swiss senate has voted 29 to 7 against a motion calling for a ban of foreign funding of mosques.
The proposal, modelled on rules already in place in Austria, would also have seen imams required to preach in a Swiss national language while compelling Islamic centres to disclose the origin of any funding.
The Swiss government is opening its country to the Salafi doctrine by rejecting this motion, which was deemed to be “discriminatory” against Muslims. A poor excuse was provided by Switzerland’s seven-member Federal Council, which said that the comparison to Austria was rejected on the grounds that “rules in that country came in the context of bolstered official recognition for Austria’s Muslims.”
Since when does official recognition of a religion in a country have any connection to foreign funding?
Switzerland is clueless. Last year, the Swiss government admitted that it did not know the identity of 90% of its asylum seekers.
Sebastian Kurz, who was Austria’s Foreign and Integration Minister at the time, rightly indicated Austria’s move was designed to limit the power of “influences from abroad.”
“Senate rejects ban on foreign funding for Swiss mosques,” The Local, May 30, 2018:
The Swiss senate on Tuesday on Tuesday voted against a motion calling for foreign funding of mosques in the country to be banned.
Politicians in the upper house voted 29 to 7 against the proposal which had narrowly passed through the lower house Council of States.
The motion had been put forward by Lorenzo Quadri, a senator for the right-wing Ticino League party in Switzerland’s Italian-speaking canton of Ticino.
The proposal, modelled on rules already in place in Austria, would also have seen imams required to preach in a Swiss national language while compelling Islamic centres to disclose the origin of any funding.
With the motion, Quadri had targeted some 35 mosques and Islamic centres in Switzerland reportedly funded by the Turkish government with the money being used to spread radical Islam, Swiss news portal 20 Minuten reported.
But Switzerland’s seven-member Federal Council had said the motion was discriminatory and rejected the comparison with Austria saying rules in that country came in the context of bolstered official recognition for Austria’s Muslims…..
krishna says
goodbye suadi sweden
gravenimage says
This is not Sweden–it is Switzerland. Switzerland is not usually so dhimmified.
LeftisruiningCanada says
Quite right.
They have been quite encouragingly aware of the threat that islam holds for the place in the last few years.
VRWC member77 says
Agree graven.
Unlike the Swedes, who also avoided being scarred by two world wars over the past 100+ years, the Swiss took advantage of their terrain and prepared for the possibility of conflict. Apparently the absence of actual conflict -regardless of how intelligently that was done- can dull the senses over time and the insidious cancer of Islam is a poison that reacts very well to such a situation.
elee says
You’d think Europeans would have better awareness of Fifth Columns. In case they forgot their recent history, they can read about this Fifth Column every day.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
This suppression of Islam cannot prevent patriotic Swiss Muslims from combining their faith with their nationalism by becoming a hafiz who has memorized the Quran in Switzerland’s Swissest official language, the
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romansh_language
gravenimage says
This is not a suppression of Islam–it is an enabling of it.
Stacy Girl says
Yes. Let the good times of dark money from outsiders roll.
Keys says
Yep.
Think the oil-rich Arab secret deposits of billions in Swiss banks had anything to do with the decision ?
That can not be revealed. Wouldn’t be ethical.
Older Canadian says
So what is the actual thinking behind this decision? Please don’t say it is all political correctness. They did what-ever it was to remain neutral in the last WW, and I had assumed they would pull the same trick in the next one. Something appears missing here.
CogitoErgoSum says
Does the Swiss government receive any revenue from taxes on the foreign funding of mosques? How about taxes on the mosques once they are built?
Cicero says
Swiss government manages via their Swiss banks all the trillions of funds stashed away in their Swiss accounts of the fabulously wealthy Middle Easterners
They are treading carefully
brane pilot says
It is called Political Infantilism; the idiot child of politically correct progressivism.
It is the belief that there is no real world, only the magical world of western legal experiments that have declared every citizen of a Third World failed state to be a ‘refugee’, and every non-European in Europe to be a ‘victim’ of Europeans and entitled to a free ride.
It is a romper room world of infantile minds who have abandoned reality for something better.
It will not end well.
LeftisruiningCanada says
They have seemed to be quite aware of what islam is all about in other recent issues. The Swiss are not a people to idly accept invasion or subjugation. Indeed, they are perhaps the country most similar to the United States in all the world, on a smaller scale but no less tested or because of their size.
It would be most interesting to be informed about the machinations leading to this foreign funding decision.,
Susan says
Anyone suspect that some money changed hands between the politicians and interested Saudis?
gravenimage says
Swiss senate rejects ban on foreign funding of mosques
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Foolish dhimmi tools…
Ren says
Some country is more moron than others.
somehistory says
Those 29 are willing to go from a beautiful Switzerland to a turkey controlled Switzeristan.
“The love of money is the root of all sorts of evil.” (1 Timothy) The verse says those ones are “piercing themselves with many pains.”
Evidently for these people, getting money from turkey is more important than keeping the Swiss people safe.
Rolf Wittwer says
Too many “Goodies” invading tiny Switzerland too.
But common clear thinking swiss people are keeping their fists in their pocket.
Until they are forced, to use them…;-)
LeftisruiningCanada says
Agreed.
If any nation of western europe will survive the coming troubles, it will be Switzerland.
Of them all, Switzerland has been infected less with the “European” disease.
Lydia Church says
Digging their own graves…
LeftisruiningCanada says
True enough, but the pall bearers will be other Swiss.
Kepha says
If you close mosques that receive foreign funding, you can close a church that receives some help from abroad, too. While it’s now the Saudis and Emirate people who are now flushed with cash from oil, this can change. I know of certain Evangelical churches in Taiwan that have gotten support from people in the USA and Korea. What of RC churches that may be funded from sources outside the countries in which they work? This can cut many ways.
Brian hoff says
These Islamoprobic donot think that foreign funding of christian church can be ban as well.
Keys says
Name the Islamic countries that allow foreign funding to build new churches, please. It is contrary to Sharia, “Brian”.
gravenimage says
“Brian hoff”–really, “DefenderofIslam”–is just hoping for uninterrupted funding of Jihadi Mosques. His claim that concern about this is “Islamoprobic” and that he is concerned over funding for Christian Churches is ludicrous.
He has said before that he wants to see brutal Shari’ah law imposed in the US–we all know what that would do to religious freedom for Christians and other Infidels.
roger standen says
Muslims in Switzerland call for an Islamic revolution in a slick and expensive video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46DVrVGP9nw
Giacomo Latta says
Expect us anytime, anywhere! What such a warm and non-threatening dictate! And yes, we may ban your minarets, headscarves, rapes, etc. because we are a democracy which will always lord over your so-called religion based on a book so full of hate that it should be banned as any other hate speech iis.
gravenimage says
*Very* disturbing video, Roger. This is obviously a call for violent Jihad–note the ludicrous claim that Muslims “can’t survive” in Switzerland if they don’t violently conquer the nation and oppress the native Swiss.
roger standen says
A couple of peculiar features in this video. It was produced by Muslim immigrants from the Balkans, probably Kosovo and Albania.. And the narrator sounds very much like the British Jihadi John.
Pete says
Stupid move by the Swiss. I’m sure this is going to come back and bite them.
Giacomo Latta says
What a bunch of idiots these 29 Swiss are. Not so long ago the Swiss population voted against allowing priapic mosques to be built anywhere and everywhere. What these 29 imbeciles don’t seem to know is that minarets are not going to kill and rape the population, devout twisted Muslims are.