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A Swiss country town has become the focus of a right-wing campaign to ban minarets from all mosques in the country on the grounds that they symbolise ideological opposition to the constitution.
Switzerland's "stop minaret" movement is backed by the powerful ultra-conservative Swiss People's Party, (SVP) which was re-elected in 2007 after mounting an anti-foreigner campaign that was denounced by the United Nations as racist, the Independent reports.
Ulrich Schüler, an SVP parliamentarian and leading member of the anti-minaret movement, said minarets were political rather than religious. "They are symbols of a desire for power, of an Islam which wants to establish a legal and social order fundamentally contrary to the liberties guaranteed in our constitution," he told the paper.
Wow, I didn't realize the Swiss was so racist... and apparently some of them are in this forum...
Nothing racist about that. You try and go to a muslim country say iran or saudi arabia and try setting up a christian church with a huge cross on it see how long you last as well. Europe is for Europeans not invaders. Keep up the great work Europa! The swiss have had enough just as the english,and italians have!
I didn't say that Iran or Saudi Arabia was not racist cause they are as much as others... that does NOT excuse the Swiss for being racist either... two wrongs don't make it right...
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