Middle east press criticizes Swiss referendum banning minarets in Switzerland

The Swiss have voted for their referendum, and the vote has decided against the building of Islamic Minarets in Switzerland. Middle Eastern press called it a racist step, while some saw the double standards the message carried along, in a country that claims to respect human rights, one of which being freedom of religion and worship. A step like this one will only escalate the already present tension between Muslim and non-Muslim countries, making the gap bigger, and the feelings of suppression more intense; A situation that the world could do without at the moment considering the great number of similar wars being fought between the two sides of the story.

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• Switzerland
• Muslims
• human rights
• religion
• Islam
• Islamic architecture
• minarets

[BoudiccaBlanc]

Good! The Swiss Muslims (< 5%) of the Swiss population) have no right to impose their architectural preferences on the other 95% of the population

Swiss Muslims are allowed to worship freely and openly. That's more than Christians and Jews can do in Kuwait or Saudi Arabia; and many other "Muslim" countries

If they're really interested in having some sort of minaret...why not design a minaret (and mosques for that matter) that are compatiable with Swiss cultural norms

Hurrah Swiss!

[EuropeenFront]

congratulation to Swisserland.

evil islam must be Ban