Posted on 12/10/2009 2:28:17 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
A Swiss businessman appalled by his fellow countrymen's decision to ban minarets has extended a chimney above his company building into a minaret in protest.
"It was scandalous that the Swiss voted for the ban. Now we have the support of all the far-right parties across Europe. This is shameful," Guillaume Morand, who owns a chain of shoe stores, told AFP.
The businessman, who is not a Muslim, explained that the he had constructed the mock minaret at his building near western Switzerland's city of Lausanne in protest, and at the same time, to "send a message of peace."
More than 57 percent of voters upset opinion polls and defied their government by approving the right wing motion to ban minarets -- the turrets or towers on mosques from which Muslims are called to prayer.
The outcome of the referendum brought by members of the hard-right Swiss People's Party (SVP) and other right wing groups was also hailed by anti-immigrant party leaders elsewhere in Europe.
Morand blamed other political parties in Switzerland for not having campaigned against the far-right motion ahead of the referendum.
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Arrest him.
The businessman, who is not a Muslim, explained that the he had constructed the mock minaret at his building near western Switzerland’s city of Lausanne in protest, and at the same time, to “send a message of peace.”
The Village idiot...
Derp derp a derp ... (that is what I think of him).
He will be the last one to get his throat cut.
Ankle biter...
Send in the Swiss Guards to arrest him and burn it to the ground!
Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.
R. J. Wiedemann Lt Col. USMC Ret
I love that quote!
The only "message" he's sending is "I enjoy having my throat cut & dying horribly."
See my tagline! Now I know where it came from!
Stockholm Syndrome...in Switzerland?
Do you think the Swiss nationals may fly a plane into it?
One idiot made the news to appease the AFP? Must be a slow day for the crocodile-feeders. He’ll be the last one killed and 10 years from now should be applying for citizenship in another country.
The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims (Andrew Bostom)
and
The Suicide of Reason: Radical Islam's Threat to the West (Lee Harris)
I know a lot of Americans have no clue of Islam’s history but Europeans should know it. For at least over 1200 years there was endless battles with Islam. Battle or Tour, Lepanto, Vienna and on and on. Captured Europeans became slaves and slavery still exists in the Islamic world.
“send a message of peace.”
The savages won’t be appeased.
This was a plebiscite. The people decided they did NOT want the pernicious infestation of Islam in their country. This self-righteous slime flies in their face at his own peril.
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