Victory for Swiss People’s Party (SVP)
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Posted on: November 30, 2009
Switzerland has backed calls to ban the building of new minarets, official referendum results have revealed.
Switzerland’s biggest party, the Swiss People’s Party (SVP), claims the turrets attached to mosques are symbols of militant Islam.
The anti-immigration SVP party believes the spires from where followers of Islam are called to prayer demonstrate a “political-religious claim to power”.
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December 2nd, 2009 at 9:32 pm
“I’m against it because it’s intolerant.” Rather ironic.