It is obvious that the action taken by Switzerland and lately by France will reverberate throughout Europe as more and more non Muslims are brutalised in other parts of the World.

Yes. If you cannot build a church or temple in Muslim lands why should special rights be given for Muslims in other lands of the ‘Free’. Perhaps the dayshave come for the Muslims to return to their lands of origin where they could enjoy a fruitful and happy Islamic way of life without burdening their religion on others.

It is the height of hypocrisy fom the Islamists that they bleat and wail about not being able to build a minaret, but dont say anything about us anyone not being to build even a church in Saudi Arabia, or many other despotic Islamic dump that abound across this earth.

If the Saudis want to threaten economic sanctions, then call their bluff and tell them to stick their money.

Meanwhile that odious creep Ekmeledi Ishanoglu funded bythe Saudis is mounting another challenge to our freedoms in the UN where his venal and backward organisation called the OIC holds a voting block sway of 57.

The Malaysians are still knocking down Hindu temples and curbing the freedoms of other religions. The Egyptians are killing the Copts and the Turks are mounting a new campaign against the Christians…etc etc

…and these ignorant mongrels complain about feeling threatened because they cant build a minaret

Give me abreak

“If we give them a minaret, they’ll have us all wearing burqas,” said Julia Werner, a local housewife. “Before you know it, we’ll have sharia law and women being stoned to death in our streets. We won’t be Swiss any more.”

Politicians will not let the people have a say on the EU, or on the Lisbon treaty.

Politicians will not let us have a say on AGWCC, but are intent on taxing the hell out of us.

Politicians will not let us have a say on the Islamisation of Europe.

Politicians have become an enemy of the people.

Sorry, even though this may be construed by some as an attack upon religious freedom it is, after all, a ban on only the construction of minarets. If 57% of the vote was for the ban, it was democratic.
It was not a ban forbidding the construction of mosques, nor was it a ban on Muslims being able to conduct their religion.
It was a ban on minarets – which would change the skyline of many cantons. I am sure in the future another vote could be held.
But we do have a problem in Britain and other European countries, where funding for large mosques often does not come from Muslim communities but from donations from places like Saudi Arabia.
And remember that Saudi Arabia not only has NO churches or synagogues, it bans the import of bibles, it imprisons people for holding Christian services and sentences people to death for the impossible crime of witchcraft.
This minaret ban, compared to the plans by Saudi Arabia to build ever larger and ever-more impressive mosques beyond its territory is chicken feed compared to many Muslim countries’ behaviour.
Saudi Arabia is run by a tribe of fanatical retrogressive despots who practice a form of Islam that caused its founder to be driven out of Medina for his fanaticism.
But a so-called “moderate” Muslim nation like Malaysia has for the past few years engaging in a policy of destroying Hindu temples, some of which are more than 100 years old as well as Christian churches.
In Malaysia, the main excuses given to deatroy such tmeples is that the bildings did not have planning permission. When you deal with temples that were built more than 40 years before Malaysia had its merdeka (independence), such claims are spurious.
The demolition of such temples is a real example of an attack upon religious freedom, along with the refusal of the Malaysian sharia courts to allow Muslims to leave Islam.
Prince Charles pressured the Qatari* royal family to stop building a building complex “visually” ruining the area of Chelsea Barracks. What is the difference?
Minarets existed to call the faithful to prayer, and thus for many people they do not just represent the scar upon a skyline (as Oriana Fallaci saw them) but potentially a “right” to have calls to prayer made by loudspeakers from these towers. That is their sole practical purpose.
And as has been shown from Oxford and also Sofia in Bulgaria, calls to prayer cause great resentments to non-Muslims who feel that they really have had their neighbourhoods colonised.
This is up to the Swiss, not us.
If they were advocating stopping Muslims from worshipping, or stopping them from building new places of worship, I would join you in condemnation.
As far as I can see, this may irritate Swiss Muslims, and I am sure the most active condemnation will come from Tariq Ramadan’s truly fanatical brother, Hani. Hani Ramadan, who supports the notion of Muslim Brotherhood infiltration by a vanguard followed by a colonisation, openly argues for sharia punishments, including the stoning of women.
Hani Ramadan’s demands for an uncompromising interpretation of Islam has probably, more than any other factor, pushed the Swiss people into fearing the spread of Islam. Hani Ramadan’s open stridency makes Hizb ut-Tahrir seem tolerant.
* Qatar only gave permission in 2006 for the first church to be built in more than a century within its borders.

“If we give them a minaret, they’ll have us all wearing burqas,” said Julia Werner, a local housewife. “Before you know it, we’ll have sharia law and women being stoned to death in our streets. We won’t be Swiss any more.”

Politicians will not let the people have a say on the EU, or on the Lisbon treaty.

Politicians will not let us have a say on AGWCC, but are intent on taxing the hell out of us.

Politicians will not let us have a say on the Islamisation of Europe.

Politicians have become an enemy of the people.

If Switzerland had become a part of the EU, they would not have the freedom to have such a referendum. The EU would dictate what they could do, or even what they were allowed to think.

The Swiss need to remember the freedoms they have, are the freedoms that brave Swiss fought for. They are the custodians of that freedom, to pass on to their descendents, and not its owners.