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Switzerland appears to have backed minaret ban (Swiss slap down Muslims)
Telegraph ^ | 11/29/09 | Alexandra Williams and Bruno Waterfield

Posted on 11/29/2009 5:32:56 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster

Switzerland appears to have backed minaret ban

Voters in Switzerland appeared to have backed a call to ban minarets from mosques, according to early exit poll results.

By Alexandra Williams in Geneva and Bruno Waterfield

Published: 10:16AM GMT 29 Nov 2009

Thirty minutes after the referendum finished at midday, Swiss television reported: “The initiative would appear to be accepted. There is a positive trend. It’s a huge surprise.”

According to the respected gfs.bern polling institute an estimated 59 per cent of voters backed the ban. A majority of cantons were also in support of the initiative.

“A majority have voted for a nationwide ban on the construction of minarets,” said the institute’s director Claude Longchamp, speaking on Swiss Radio DRS.

For the Swiss constitution to be changed, the majority of the electorate and a majority of the cantons are required to vote ‘yes’. A survey two weeks ago showed 53 per cent said they would reject it. Both the government and parliament had rejected the initiative. Commentators had said the country risked international pariah status and a backlash across the Muslim world if a ’yes’ vote was achieved.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: erdogan; eurabia; infiltration; islam; jihad; jihadinthewest; minaret; mosque; switzerland
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To: riri

Good deal. Now we need some of their Pikeman to deploy to AFG.


21 posted on 11/29/2009 5:48:46 AM PST by IGOTMINE (1911s FOREVER!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

When do you suppose America could vote the same way?

22 posted on 11/29/2009 5:48:56 AM PST by BigLittle
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To: TigerLikesRooster
"This minaret is a symbol of conquest and power which marks the will to introduce Sharia law as has happened in some other European cities. We will not accept that," said Ulrich Schueler, an SVP politician and leader of the "stop" minaret campaign.

Hmm, banning a minaret is not the same as banning Sharia law. In hiding minarets, you've done nothing but hidden the mindset from public view which is still there and growing.

"They call us terrorists. They call us Taliban, so many labels all wrong. They insult us. We love this country, almost more than our own. Our children were born here."

And there it is. They admit they haven't assimilated but have kept themselves apart. Which country would they defend? Not Switzerland.

23 posted on 11/29/2009 5:49:41 AM PST by bgill (The framers of the US Constitution established an entire federal government in 18 pages.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

That is a POWERFUL picture! No way we could do something like that over here.


24 posted on 11/29/2009 5:50:31 AM PST by IGOTMINE (1911s FOREVER!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Oh now just you wait, all the moosulms will be crying the blues.


25 posted on 11/29/2009 5:50:35 AM PST by fuzzybutt
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To: TigerLikesRooster

This is kind of like North Carolina in 1978, 1984, 1990 & 1996. Out of nowhere the media’s bogeyman (Jesse Helms in this case) pulls through and doesn’t make the Left’s day.


26 posted on 11/29/2009 5:52:22 AM PST by MSF BU (++)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Earlier this year Langenthal's 750 Muslims asked for planning permission to add a minaret, 30 feet high, to their mosque in a town with 11 churches and 14,500 inhabitants.

The reaction to the apparently harmless request has polarised Switzerland and crossed borders to feed into British, French, Dutch and Austrian fears over Islam and national identity.

"This minaret is a symbol of conquest and power which marks the will to introduce Sharia law as has happened in some other European cities. We will not accept that," said Ulrich Schueler, an SVP politician and leader of the "stop" minaret campaign.

A Good Start...

27 posted on 11/29/2009 5:53:15 AM PST by MajorThomas (Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.)
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To: samtheman
Who the F are these common taters anyway?
28 posted on 11/29/2009 5:53:32 AM PST by Ukiapah Heep (Shoes for Industry!)
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To: samtheman

Yes, I can hear the rumblind of Tom Friedman’s upper colon all the way from Maryland.


29 posted on 11/29/2009 5:54:46 AM PST by MSF BU (++)
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To: Dallas59

Then be prepared and kill them.


30 posted on 11/29/2009 5:55:23 AM PST by Paige ("All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing," Edmund Burke)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Awww. I used to love those things. Some kind of chocolate-ish outside with some kind of creamy-foamy inside. I guess the Swiss don’t want anyone else’s chocolate coming in. I think Nabisco made them.


31 posted on 11/29/2009 5:55:35 AM PST by SlowBoat407 (Achtung. preparen zie fur die obamahopenchangen.)
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To: BigLittle

Damn, I almost punched the cpmputer screen!


32 posted on 11/29/2009 5:56:14 AM PST by WellyP
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To: America2012

Actually they require you to maintain arms in your home as long as you’re in the army, which is more or less all able bodied males. After retirement, you’re given the option of retaining the weapon, unless the rules have been changed.


33 posted on 11/29/2009 5:58:18 AM PST by MSF BU (++)
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To: Dallas59

hahaha!


34 posted on 11/29/2009 5:59:15 AM PST by Former
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To: rickmichaels

“Aren’t Swiss citizens armed? F*** you,”

Yes they are and yes - they should feed a good helping of hot lead to any rioting muslims. That would send a pretty clear message.

They probably won’t riot from within armed societies like ours and the Swiss. They can act tough and be destructive around the Euro-weenies - not here.


35 posted on 11/29/2009 6:00:14 AM PST by Constitutional Patriot (Socialism is the cancer of humanity.)
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To: Paige
The MUZZIES MUST obey OUR laws. We/I WILL NOT obey the dictates of this EVIL CULT!
36 posted on 11/29/2009 6:00:46 AM PST by WellyP
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To: riri

My theory is when the “Crusaders” disbanded they moved en massed to Switzerland...


37 posted on 11/29/2009 6:04:34 AM PST by GOPJ (Anthropogenic global warming-the most costly and widespread scientific FRAUD in history-James Lewis)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

The most informative quote was very near the end of the article:

“We love this country ALMOST as much as we love our own”

Make a choice, fella. Take the one behind the black curtain where you can have all the minarets your little heart desires, or the red one with the white cross where you need to learn how to be Swiss.

The primary problem in all countries is that immigrants want it both ways; the benefits of living in a 21st century country but the culture of the 3rd century country they came from.


38 posted on 11/29/2009 6:06:05 AM PST by Happyinmygarden (Yes, actually, I have pretty much seen and heard it all before...)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
"The 'Swiss' brand must continue to represent values such as openness, pluralism and freedom of religion. Under no circumstances must it be connected with hatred, animosity towards foreigners and narrow-mindedness," he said

You mean must not treat Muslims like Muslims treat Jews.

39 posted on 11/29/2009 6:09:18 AM PST by Pontiac
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To: TigerLikesRooster
They call us terrorists. They call us Taliban, so many labels all wrong. They insult us. We love this country, almost more than our own. Our children were born here."

A very telling, and probably unintended admission there. So, Switzerland is not their country, and they do not love Switzerland as much as they love their own country, whichever country that might be.

So, why are they even in Switzerland?

40 posted on 11/29/2009 6:13:53 AM PST by Will88
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