Switzerland bans minarets

[Der_Trihs]

@Lochdale

Yes, yes white people bad. We get it. Dead horse beaten.

Don’t warp what I am saying. Unless you actually believe that every white person belongs to a racist organization, I said nothing resembling “white people bad”. I was simply pointing out that this is coming from a racist organization. And it has no motive at all beyond bigotry.

@Lochdale

However, it’s a reaction to the very real vacumn on the discussion of immigration into Western countries. Again, how many is too many? Regardless of culture, skin colour, sexual choice etc etc. A country has a right to defend its borders and even define its cultural make up. That right includes limiting the number of immigrants who enter the country. That’s the real issue here and this nonsensical law simply masks that.

Garbage. This has nothing to so with immigration; the Muslims are already there, and have been for generations in many cases.

[Freudian_Slit]

When the Swiss Voted to Ban New Minarets, This Man Built One - WSJ

Some new minaret news.

But the new minaret is not attached to a mosque; this small town near Geneva doesn’t even have one. And it’s not the work of a local Muslim outraged by Switzerland’s controversial vote to ban the structures, which often are used to launch the call to prayer.

Instead, Bussigny’s minaret is attached to the warehouse of a shoe store called Pomp It Up, which is part of a Swiss chain. It was erected by the chain’s owner, Guillaume Morand, who fashioned it out of plastic and wood and attached it to a chimney. The new minaret, nearly 20 feet high and illuminated at night, is clearly visible from the main highway connecting Lausanne and Geneva.

“The referendum was a scandal,” Mr. Morand said recently at his cavernous warehouse, near pallets piled high with shoe boxes as pop music played on an old stereo system. “I was ashamed to be Swiss. I don’t have the power to do much, but I wanted to give a message of peace to Muslims.”

[Freudian_Slit]

Too late to edit but from that article:

Claudine Wyssa, the town’s acting mayor – who called Mr. Morand’s action infantile – doesn’t think the do-it-yourself project qualifies as a minaret and plans no legal action.

“It doesn’t violate the law,” she said in an interview. “It has nothing to do with Islam. A minaret needs a mosque. In this case, there isn’t one. There’s just a shoe warehouse.”

So they’re admitting that the ban is about Muslims, and not about architecture? Because it’s okay when a non Muslim erects one, but if it had been about Islam…then…it would have been worth taking down? WTF?