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Minaret Ban in Switzerland?

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  • Synthetic OrangeSynthetic Orange Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    But the minarets go next to mosques. It's kind of hard to not notice a mosque.

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  • ZoelZoel I suppose... I'd put it on Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    they've been trying to get this ban through since 2007.

    The question I have is how exactly are they defining a minaret? I mean, it's a tower. Hell, some of them have even doubled as light houses.

    This is a bad day for mariners.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    sweden being insular is not somehow new

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  • ZephyrZephyr Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    sweden

    :mrgreen:

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  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    sweden being insular is not somehow new

    good thing we're not talking about sweden at all

    #pipe on
  • Synthetic OrangeSynthetic Orange Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
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  • FabricateFabricate __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2009
    white europeans are racist?

    no

    fucking

    way

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    why did I say sweden when I meant switzerland

    why am I sober and being dumb

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Fabricate wrote: »
    white europeans are racist?

    no

    fucking

    way

    if only islam were a race

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  • Randall_FlaggRandall_Flagg Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Across the country, there are only two small minarets, one in Zurich and one in Geneva, neither of which are permitted to make the call to prayer. In Switzerland's capital Berne, the largest mosque is in a former underground car park.


    Er, from BBC

    So I need to edit my op then...
    and change the word Mosque to Minaret.
    Ah mistakes.

    Still, its pretty insane that a fear campaign (over a a Muslim push for political power) could be waged over a Muslim population that weighs in at about 350,00

    nazi germany proved that it is really fucking easy to blame everything wrong on your country on a group that is a fraction of a percentage of your population if you vigorously otherize them

    is otherise a word? whatevs I don't care.

    edit: whoops

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  • ZoelZoel I suppose... I'd put it on Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Interesting. Apparently the ban could have ramifications for Switzerland's relationship to the European Union, because it may violate international law in some way.

    http://brill.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/mnp/rhrs/2008/00000003/00000002/art00002

    Unfortunately I am not spending $25.00 to delve further into that issue.

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  • laughingfuzzballlaughingfuzzball Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    gazamc wrote: »
    The_Scarab wrote: »
    gazamc wrote: »
    Its not like they are banning the building of Mosques or forbidding people from practicing the religion. Sure its harsh, but its not that terrible.

    Minarets are an integral part of mosques.

    Well from a little googling there are apparently over 100 mosques in Switzerland, but only 4 Minarets. So they can't be that crucial.

    The more conservative mosques don't build them and in some towns they aren't allowed to do the calls to prayer from them (issues with how loud it is) so they do the calls elsewhere. Minarets do serve a purpose but not all mosques are able to make use of them.

    Traditionally, the minaret is used so that the call to prayer can be heard over the entire area the mosque serves.

    In practice, this has become about has practical and as vital as using church bells to notify a congregation that service has begun. At the same time, it's about as harmful. Maybe some people might be annoyed that the morning call is so early, but unless they use loudspeakers (common in Muslim countries, not so common in the West) it's not likely to cause any significant bother compared to normal city noise.

    There are often other concerns, as its intent is as much to give all (Muslim or otherwise) an opportunity to hear some basic tenets of Islam as it is to notify the believers that it is time to pray. Some people are easily offended, and so may object to this use. Most Western mosques make the call in Arabic, though, so any objection on this basis is even less rational than usual.

    Since the call to prayer can be (and often is) made without a minaret, any argument on that basis is tenuous at best. Really, though I'm normally hesitant to jump to this sort of conclusion, it seems most likely that it's intended to unabashedly anti-muslim as the op suggests. This sort of thing has no place in any free society.

    I'm inherently distrustful of any attempt to limit peaceful religious expression, so I may not be the most objective in this matter.

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  • FabricateFabricate __BANNED USERS regular
    edited November 2009
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    Fabricate wrote: »
    white europeans are racist?

    no

    fucking

    way

    if only islam were a race

    They're banning the construction of structures due to an imagined power struggle within the state by a small population that will primarily be non-white, or is at least associated with persyns of color, and possibly antagonistic to white hegemony

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Fabricate wrote: »
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    Fabricate wrote: »
    white europeans are racist?

    no

    fucking

    way

    if only islam were a race

    They're banning the construction of structures due to an imagined power struggle within the state by a small population that will primarily be non-white, or is at least associated with persyns of color, and possibly antagonistic to white hegemony

    if only there were white muslims

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  • laughingfuzzballlaughingfuzzball Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Zoel wrote: »
    Interesting. Apparently the ban could have ramifications for Switzerland's relationship to the European Union, because it may violate international law in some way.

    It's not really an issue of international law, but it could be seen as a violation of the EU's religious freedom mandate, which all member nations are required to abide by. It's not going to be a "whoops, you're out" sorta deal, but it'll make things pretty tense and will definitely piss off Turkey, who's been courting the EU for membership for some time.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    also, mosques can still exist and there is no abridgment of religious freedoms

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  • Chompskers.Chompskers. Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    Fabricate wrote: »
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    Fabricate wrote: »
    white europeans are racist?

    no

    fucking

    way

    if only islam were a race

    They're banning the construction of structures due to an imagined power struggle within the state by a small population that will primarily be non-white, or is at least associated with persyns of color, and possibly antagonistic to white hegemony

    if only there were white muslims

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  • ZoelZoel I suppose... I'd put it on Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    HAhaha

    yeah this is dumb

    Swiss people are dumb except those who live in primarily french speaking cantons (since all of them opposed it.)

    http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_57616.shtml
    "Forced marriages and other things like cemeteries separating the pure and impure - we don't have that in Switzerland, and we do not want to introduce it," Ulrich Schlueer, co-president of the Initiative Committee to ban minarets, said.
    "Therefore, there's no room for minarets in Switzerland."

    ahahaha

    forced marriages are bad therefore FUCK MINARETS.

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  • Chompskers.Chompskers. Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Zoel wrote: »
    HAhaha

    yeah this is dumb

    Swiss people are dumb except those who live in primarily french speaking cantons (since all of them opposed it.)

    http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_57616.shtml
    "Forced marriages and other things like cemeteries separating the pure and impure - we don't have that in Switzerland, and we do not want to introduce it," Ulrich Schlueer, co-president of the Initiative Committee to ban minarets, said.
    "Therefore, there's no room for minarets in Switzerland."

    ahahaha

    forced marriages are bad therefore FUCK MINARETS.


    LOGIC

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  • laughingfuzzballlaughingfuzzball Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    "The minaret is a sign of political power and demand, comparable with whole-body covering by the burqa, tolerance of forced marriage and genital mutilation of girls," the sponsors said. They noted that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has compared mosques to Islam's military barracks and called "the minarets our bayonets."

    This is the problem with military metaphors. While they'll generally be understood by those they're addressed to as a call to action, someone outside the intended audience will inevitably twist it into something more literal and much more disturbing.

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    Fabricate wrote: »
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    Fabricate wrote: »
    white europeans are racist?

    no

    fucking

    way

    if only islam were a race

    They're banning the construction of structures due to an imagined power struggle within the state by a small population that will primarily be non-white, or is at least associated with persyns of color, and possibly antagonistic to white hegemony

    if only there were white muslims

    THAT IS NOT RACIST

    holy fuck

    people who overuse "racist" make me want to murder whiny, white-guilt shitheads more than I normally do

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  • unintentionalunintentional smelly Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    I often use racist and discriminatory to mean the same thing and then realize that I meant discriminatory.

    sorry pip

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    edited November 2009
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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    Zoel wrote: »
    HAhaha

    yeah this is dumb

    Swiss people are dumb except those who live in primarily french speaking cantons (since all of them opposed it.)

    http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_57616.shtml
    "Forced marriages and other things like cemeteries separating the pure and impure - we don't have that in Switzerland, and we do not want to introduce it," Ulrich Schlueer, co-president of the Initiative Committee to ban minarets, said.
    "Therefore, there's no room for minarets in Switzerland."

    ahahaha

    forced marriages are bad therefore FUCK MINARETS.
    heh

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  • Randall_FlaggRandall_Flagg Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    you just can't use enough of that emoticon, can you, TFS?

    and before you answer, let me guess:
    w20m82.jpgw20m82.jpgthat emoticonw20m82.jpgw20m82.jpg-Randall Fagg

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  • MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    also, mosques can still exist and there is no abridgment of religious freedoms

    refusing to allow someone to build a particular religious structure because it's from a religious tradition they don't like doesn't count as an abridgment of freedom to you?

    what?

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  • ZoelZoel I suppose... I'd put it on Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    wait are they saying that muslims are furries

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  • Chompskers.Chompskers. Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    My favorite part of that cartoon is the happy sun on the bottom.

    That might be my favorite political logo ever.

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  • ZoelZoel I suppose... I'd put it on Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    our political party had no money so we stole our logo from a dairy farm

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  • DogDog Registered User, Administrator, Vanilla Staff admin
    edited November 2009
    Zoel wrote: »
    muslims are furries

    death to the muslim race

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  • PiptheFairPiptheFair Frequently not in boats. Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    MrMonroe wrote: »
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    also, mosques can still exist and there is no abridgment of religious freedoms

    refusing to allow someone to build a particular religious structure because it's from a religious tradition they don't like doesn't count as an abridgment of freedom to you?

    what?

    not when it's superfluous and mosques exist without it, no

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  • laughingfuzzballlaughingfuzzball Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    also, mosques can still exist and there is no abridgment of religious freedoms

    Some Muslims see the minaret as vital to the practice of their religion, if only in a symbolic way.

    As soon as a government tries to set forth what is and is not a vital part of a religion, it loses the ability to make any good-faith claim to religious freedom.

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  • ZephyrZephyr Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    ban church steeples

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  • Randall_FlaggRandall_Flagg Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    MrMonroe wrote: »
    PiptheFair wrote: »
    also, mosques can still exist and there is no abridgment of religious freedoms

    refusing to allow someone to build a particular religious structure because it's from a religious tradition they don't like doesn't count as an abridgment of freedom to you?

    what?

    not when it's superfluous and mosques exist without it, no

    um that doesn't mean it's okay

    for example! The star of David is not required in the Jewish faith to be displayed anywhere, so by your logic banning the use of that star on all buildings wouldn't be an abridgment of religious freedom

    BUT IT TOTALLY WOULD

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  • Spectre-xSpectre-x Rating: AWESOME YESRegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34191036/ns/world_news-europe/

    So, apparently the Swiss have moved to ban the construction of Minarets in the country?
    Like, through popular support.

    A Minaret is one of these:
    1260181-Minaret-of-the-Grand-Friday-Mosque--Male-1.jpg

    The campaign for it was apparently largely based on the idea that there was an internal push for power by the Muslim population within the state, even though there is only a six percent Muslim population, and only twenty percent of those Muslims practice



    Oh,
    and holy crap
    The People's Party has campaigned mainly unsuccessfully in previous years against immigrants with campaign posters showing white sheep kicking a black sheep off the Swiss flag and another with brown hands grabbing eagerly for Swiss passports.
    "The minaret is a sign of political power and demand, comparable with whole-body covering by the burqa, tolerance of forced marriage and genital mutilation of girls," the sponsors said. They noted that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has compared mosques to Islam's military barracks and called "the minarets our bayonets."

    So um,





    What the fuck?

    Man!

    Fucking Switzerland, man!

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  • Chompskers.Chompskers. Registered User regular
    edited November 2009
    gig-swiss-knife.jpg

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  • Spectre-xSpectre-x Rating: AWESOME YESRegistered User regular
    edited November 2009
    FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUCKING GEERT WILDERS

    FUCKER IS FROM THE NEXT FUCKING TOWN OVER ORIGINALLY AS WELL

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