Of Minarets, Islam and Switzerland: a conversation with Dr H.A.Hellyer

Dr H.A.Hellyer in conversation with Caroline Morrisey, Director British Council Switzerland. Dr Hellyer visited Berne, Fribourg and Neuchatel to meet with academics, students, members of Swiss Islamic communities and Swiss parliamentarians and discuss the recent referendum decision to ban the construction of minarets in Switzerland.

The visit was organised with the British Council Our Shared Europe project (http://www.oursharedeurope.org)
Video by Christopher Tribble / http://www.ctribble.co.uk

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• islam
• identity
• switzerland
• europe
• Hellyer
• British
• Council
• minarets

[drydust999]

If such a tolerant country, Switzerland, choses to ban minarets and say "no" to islamism, I think it says more about islam than it says about the country itself.

[ibileez]

The very fact is, its has been shown only from the few voted ( just only 32% of eligible voters voted and 57.5 % of that vote for the ban) who oppose the minaret's ban by only a fraction while not knowing what really minaret signifies in Muslim community particularly in Islam. It dose not reflect the majority of Swiss society at all. listen to him carefully!