Statement on ban of minarets in Switzerland
Islamo-fascists and their enablers won’t take no for an answer. 57% of Switzerland said ‘no’ to Mohammedan rocket launchers and are now vilified as “right wing extremists”. Count me in!
- Harry’s Katzenjammer kidz: Defend Religious Freedom in Switzerland
Europe unites to deplore Swiss ban on minarets
Vlad Tepes Blog
TIMESONLINE…The Swiss and European establishment united today in deploring yesterday’s decision by Swiss voters to outlaw the construction of minarets but conservative leaders warned that the referendum showed genuine fear over Islam on the continent.
Swiss officials, media and business leaders voiced shame over a vote that they say will stigmatise the country’s 400,000 Muslims and stain Switzerland’s name in the Muslim world. In contrast, hard right leaders in France, Austria, Italy and the Netherlands hailed what they depicted as a triumph for the people against the elite.
Le Temps, Geneva’s establishment newspaper, said: “The vote was inspired by fear, fantasies and ignorance.” Damage to the country’s international standing would be spectacular, it said. “Vengeance [ aka fear], boycotts [ aka fantasy], retaliation [aka ignorance] … this clash with Islam could cost dearly.”
Dhimmies will be dhimmies…
Tagesanzeiger, the Zurich daily, said that the vote, staged on the initiative of the nationalist Swiss People’s Party (SVP), showed the country’s deep division between outward-looking modernisers and a traditionalist backlash. The 57 per cent approval of the minaret ban would “strengthen the international isolation of Switzerland even among western nations,” it said.
The Swiss Government, which opposed the vote, reassured members of the faith that “this is not a rejection of the Muslim community, religion or culture.” The Conference of Swiss Bishops also criticised the result, saying that it “heightens the problems of cohabitation between religions and cultures.”
Amnesty international and other rights organisations said that the change to the Swiss Constitution breached guarantees on religious freedom in the European Human Rights Convention. The Swiss Green party said that it may lodge a complaint at the Strasbourg court of Human Rights.
Swiss Muslims, who come mainly from the Balkans and Turkey, reacted with sorrow. “The most painful thing for us is not the ban on minarets, but the symbol sent by this vote,” said Farhad Afshar, leader of the Swiss Coordination of Islamic Organisations. “Muslims do not feel accepted as a religious community,” he said.
Anger was swift from more militant wings of the Muslim world. “This is the hatred of Swiss people against Muslim communities. They do not want to see a Muslim presence in their country and this intense dislike has made them intolerant,” said Maskuri Abdillah, the head of Nahdlatul Ulama, Indonesia’s biggest Muslim group. He urged Muslims not to take “revenge” for the decision.
Egypt’s Mufti Ali Gomaa denounced the ban on new minarets as an insult to all Muslims. “This proposal … is not considered just an attack on freedom of beliefs, but also an attempt to insult the feelings of the Muslim community in and outside Switzerland.”
Beyond Switzerland, the vote was criticised by centre and leftwing leaders. Bernard Kouchner, a leftist who is French Foreign Minister, said that he had been shocked. Switzerland should reverse the decision quickly, he said. “If you are not allowed to build minarets, that means that religion is being oppressed.” Can someone please show me an Muslim dominated country where religions other than Islam are not oppressed?
However spokesman for Mr Sarkozy’s centre-right Union for a Popular Majority, took a different line, saying that the vote showed the degree to which radical Islam was alarming Europe’s citizens. Xavier Bertrand, the party leader, said that he was “not sure that minarets are needed in order to practise Islam in France”.
In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrat (CDU) party reacted with similar caution. To criticise the Swiss ban would be counterproductive, said Wolfgang Bosbach a senior CDU MP. It reflected a fear of growing Islamisation “and this fear must be taken seriously,” he said.
France’s far right National Front welcomed the outcome, saying that the “elites should stop denying the aspirations and fears of the European people, who, without opposing religious freedom, reject ostentatious signs that political-religious Muslim groups want to impose.”
In Italy, the anti-immigrant Northern League, said: “Switzerland is sending us a clear signal: yes to bell towers, no to minarets.”
In Switzerland, Yvan Perrin, vice-president of the SVP, the largest party in the federal Parliament, said that the vote was a lesson to the elite. Swiss companies should not worry about suffering from a backlash from Muslim countries, he said. “If our companies continue to make good quality products, they have nothing to worry about.”
And in the UK, a poster tells the pompous ‘Harry’ off:
Switzerland is not a totalitarian state, just a conservative one, whose people have voted in a way you do not like. The Left in Britain has succeeded in silencing the voices of all those who had conservative views. In its high-minded way, it has managed to alienate deeply those who believed in its culture as an identity that should be sustained and defended. Islam is an ideology with a prescriptive set of laws which conflict at the deepest possible level with our own. Muslims may be more or less observant of those laws, but Islam IS the law.
I no longer believe it can happily remain for long in the private domain of ‘the personal’, and cannot blame the Swiss for seeking to deny Islam public space.Mind your own business.
Ten years ago, I would have agreed with the sentiments of this post. But now our country is full of hatred and disintegration….
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Damage the country’s international standing?
I want to emigrate there!
‘The Swiss Green party said that it may lodge a complaint at the Strasbourg court of Human Rights.’
Surely this would just heighten tension between the Muslims and the Swiss, who still believe they live in a Democratic Country. Will the Muslims ever accept NO for an answer on any demand they make?
I still don’t reckon the Swiss went far enough.
Everyones search engines will be going into overdrive identifying
‘muslim backlash’ now.
Who is the more shocked?
Muslims wanting a global caliphate, who think they have had a shoe-in all these years or weak-kneed indigenious politicians who stand in their way.
so will the Muslims re-emigate to where things are more to their liking?
I’ve been wondering where Solkhar disappeared to, and have seen that he is now haunting Debbie Schlussel’s website:
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/12903/why-the-swiss-anti-minaret-vote-is-important/#comments
Sulker! As a professional liar he sucks, as a thief (acting with his mum) he was much more successful. Thousands and thousands of stolen Australian taxpayers dollars appear to prop up his taqqiya campaign.
At least Switzerland has some smart people. Too bad, most Westerners are history ignoramuses when it comes to Islam, softening them up for Muslim disinfo. Try the Historyscoper’s new Quick History of Islam for History Igoramuses site and get a kickass knowledge of facts fast accurate and free, click the url now to get started.
Where’s the URL?
Well done Switzerland!
Come on Italia you are next – STOP ISLAMISATION OF EUROPE
We have come too far and our forefathers sacrificed so much for our way of life in Europe.
We will not hand it over to the Death Cult of Islam on a plate without a fight.