Swiss group plans minaret-ban

[Mandy]

[web]https://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/ ... 97046A.htm[/web]

What next ? Mosques, Synagogues, Temples, the Cross ?

[luke]

What next ? Mosques, Synagogues, the Cross ?

probably we've built new places of worship now, shopping centres, pubs etc, these old ones are just getting in the way

this seems a stupid idea, i don't know anything about the swiss peoples party, but i'm guessing with a policy like that they might be like the swiss version of our bnp

nothing but bad can come out of a policy like this - this just deepens any gap between people

[faceless]

I doubt it would happen - there's always idiots like this getting coverage in the news.

[Mandy]

If it was for the noise from the Minaret, I could "understand", but they are against the Minaret on principle, even if no-one can see or hear it (e.g. in the middle of a private land which can't be seen or heard from outside).

Reminds me of the Taliban blowing up statues ..

Would the swiss peoples party want to demolish existing Minarets ? That is the logical inference.


p.s. This idea that 100,000 people can force a national vote, which goes into law IS PROMISING. Imagine a national vote on pulling out of Iraq/Afghanistan etc. and not renewing Trident early. That feels like Democracy (at least better than what we have now in the UK)

[major.tom]

I wonder if this will be applied to church steeples as well.

Or bank towers.... (money is power, afterall, as the Swiss ought to know)

This is just silly.