Minarets could be banned this weekend as Swiss voters go to the polls.

 

1. Excellent. It does bring a smile to one’s face, it does. Let’s see how this plays out.

   Posted by cmblake6       11/25/2009  at  11:03 AM  



2. Let’s consider, we’re going to give our government the right to regulate common religious symbols?  On buildings… Hmmm? 

   Lot’s of people will support a law to ban crosses and the Star of David, I bet.

   Posted by Chops       11/25/2009  at  02:26 PM  



3. I don’t think Minarets are symbols tho.  It’s where these folks do their awful caterwauling from I believe. Sounds like someone with a stomach ache.

   Posted by peiper       11/26/2009  at  09:52 AM  



4. Ahh, but peiper, minarets are symbols. If you don’t think so, then having a cross atop your steeple isn’t a symbol either.

   BTW, some idiot somewhere (I’d have to research it, forgot where I read it) is suing a Christian church for ringing its bells each hour. Nothing particularly religious about it, lots of towns used to have clocks that rang on the hour. But he thinks it’s ‘religious’.

   Chops, I’ve a synagogue on my mail route. They do not have a Star of David on their building. In fact, of the three synagogues I know of nearby, none of them have such adornment showing on the building exterior. Nor do they make nuisances of themselves by public calls to prayer several times a day.

   I hope the Swiss do ban minarets. Islam has shown it is NOT tolerant of those they live among. You want a minaret? Go to Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, etc.

   NIMBY

   Posted by Christopher       11/29/2009  at  12:47 PM  



5. Against the odds and the advice of their weak kneed govt., the ban has been voted IN.
   Cheers to the Swiss.

   Christopher, those synagogues you refer to could possibly be reform, or conservative (not likely) synagogues.  The Torah might be displayed somewhere tho.
   But that is somewhat unusual as every synagogue in my experience has indeed had the star of david on it and usually in more then one place.

   minarets are symbols.

   Well, I guess yes in manner of speaking. I mean, if you see one you immediately ID it as muslim. But their purpose is a place from which they holler people to prayer several times a day. But you would not need one of those to identify a mosque. Lots of mosques do not have one.

   Big difference between one of those say and the cross or star of david. I think anyway.

   Posted by peiper       11/30/2009  at  03:26 AM  

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