Sunday, November 29, 2009

Minaret ban wins Swiss support

The initiators have achieved something everyone wanted to prevent, and that is to influence and change the relations to Muslims and their social integration in a negative way," Taner Hatipoglu, the president of the Federation of Islamic Organisations in Zurich, said.

This would probably win in many Western countries if people instead of politicians voted, like in Switzerland.
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13 comments:

  1. Jemmy HopeNovember 29, 2009 at 12:21 PM

    Next stop, demolish church spires, and ban those bloody bells on a Sunday morning.

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  2. AnonymousNovember 29, 2009 at 1:36 PM

    And ban all those pesky atheist towers!  

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  3. MollyNovember 29, 2009 at 1:37 PM

    That was me.  I like church bells, you never hear them in Brooklyn, though.  How early do they ring?

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  4. vzaNovember 29, 2009 at 4:57 PM

    The Swiss and all Europeans have a legitimate fear about radical Islamists. I am not so sure banning minarets is the answer. What goes on in some of the mosques is the problem. I rather like minarets if they are architecturally interesting.

    However, not one word of censure should be coming from the Islamic world about this ban. Until the Islamic countries allow Churches to be repaired and built at the same level as mosques...they are in no position to complain about any of it.



    Many seem to think like Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. In words spoken in 1997, Erdogan made mosque construction seem like part of a strategy of Islamization: "The minarets are our lances, the domes our helmets, the believers our army."

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  5. vzaNovember 29, 2009 at 4:58 PM

    <span>The Swiss and all Europeans have a legitimate fear about radical Islamists. I am not so sure banning minarets is the answer. What goes on in some of the mosques is the problem. I rather like minarets if they are architecturally interesting. 
     
    However, not one word of censure should be coming from the Islamic world about this ban. Until the Islamic countries allow Churches to be repaired and built at the same level as mosques...they are in no position to complain about any of it. 
     
    Many seem to think like Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. In words spoken in 1997, Erdogan made mosque construction seem like part of a strategy of Islamization: "The minarets are our lances, the domes our helmets, the believers our army."</span>

    http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,565146,00.html

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  6. ananNovember 29, 2009 at 6:18 PM

    I like boht church bells and the Islamic call to prayer. They both sound nice.

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  7. Jemmy HopeNovember 30, 2009 at 11:47 AM

    I find myself in agreement with vza (I think I'll have to lie down for a while). Didn't the Seal of the Prophets enjoin the faithful to defend churches, synagogues, abbeys, convents, etc., from attack as they were places where the one God was worshipped?
    I'm only pointing this out to show what a heretical bunch the Wahhabis are. Less prayer and more good works is my recommendation to all religious types.

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  8. vzaNovember 30, 2009 at 4:40 PM

    <span>I find myself in agreement with vza (I think I'll have to lie down for a while). </span>
    :-D Very funny

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  9. vzaNovember 30, 2009 at 4:41 PM

    <span><span>I find myself in agreement with vza (I think I'll have to lie down for a while). </span> 
    :-D Oh, poor guy. It wasn't that painful was it? </span>

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  10. Jemmy HopeDecember 1, 2009 at 6:00 AM

    Be honest, vza -  when you read that I agreed with you didn't you check back over what you'd written to see where you'd gone wrong?

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  11. vzaDecember 1, 2009 at 2:30 PM

    :-D   No, I thought, "What a smart guy!"

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  12. Jemmy HopeDecember 2, 2009 at 2:10 AM

    Then I'll try to do it more often, but no guarantees.

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  13. vzaDecember 2, 2009 at 4:34 AM

    ;)

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