Saturday, January 2, 2010

Minaret vote 
a blot on Switzerland’s
 reputation - by Mansoor Ladha

Mansoor LadhaPublished: Sunday, December 27, 2009

I was in Zurich when the Swiss Peoples’ Party (SPP) mounted its aggressive campaign against the Muslims building a minaret.

They really exploited the issue by having huge posters of a woman dressed in a black burka standing beside a minaret plastered on walls with a giant NO printed beside them.

As it turned out, the Swiss electorate voted 57 per cent in favour of banning the minaret, which is a tall tower in a mosque with stairs leading up to one or more balconies from which the faithful are called to prayer.

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