"If the millions of Muslims who live there saw a vibrant, self-confident Christianity in the virtuous lives of their Christian neighbours, many of them would be attracted to the Christian faith. This is already happening, although Christian pastors are not keen to trumpet it."
1 posted on
12/12/2009 11:23:03 AM PST by
GonzoII
To: GonzoII
Why does Switzerland choose to subject itself to the whim of foreign “courts?”
2 posted on
12/12/2009 11:24:45 AM PST by
pnh102
(Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
To: GonzoII
Most of them come from Kosovo and Turkey and many are very secular and hardly attend mosques. Then a ban on minarets shouldn't matter to them.
3 posted on
12/12/2009 11:25:35 AM PST by
stevem
To: GonzoII
Lets see, is it because minarets represent an evil cult?
4 posted on
12/12/2009 11:27:18 AM PST by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: GonzoII
Because if you build birdhouses, birds come. Also that annoying call to prayer thing,,, bells are how God meant it to be done.
5 posted on
12/12/2009 11:35:52 AM PST by
DesertRhino
(Dogs earn thi title of "man's best friend", Muslims hate dogs,,add that up.)
To: GonzoII
Because minarets represent the destruction of European culture and Christianity and the Swiss will have NONE OF IT!
When will America awaken to this clear and present threat?
6 posted on
12/12/2009 11:37:16 AM PST by
Dick Bachert
(THE 2010 ELECTIONS ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT IN OUR LIFETIMES! BE THERE!!!)
To: GonzoII
Unless the Swiss rouse themselves from their secular torpor and offer their immigrants the spiritual richness of their 1700-year-old Christian heritage, they will continue to live in fear of being overwhelmed by forces they cannot understand.
7 posted on
12/12/2009 11:38:19 AM PST by
marron
To: GonzoII
Literally everything I've read about this is heavy with two messages. One being about the immorality of tolerating the intolerant, and the other an expression of statist contempt for the will of the people.
Those minarets are not some inoffensive bit of architecture. They're eyesores from which that obnoxious muezzin bellowing is imposed on the entire area five times a day.
8 posted on
12/12/2009 11:39:54 AM PST by
VR-21
To: GonzoII
Because of what those minarets symbolize? Death, murder, honor killings ... just asking ....
10 posted on
12/12/2009 1:05:47 PM PST by
SkyDancer
('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
To: GonzoII
To: GonzoII
The Swiss right-wing, anti-immigration parties promoted the ban with a video which depicted the peace of cowbells being disrupted by call to prayers by a muezzin and posters of a burqa-clad woman standing on the Swiss flag with minarets pointing upward like missiles. But this is a fantasy The author fails to explain why exactly this ia a "fantasy." It is the avowed goal of Muslim activists all over the world.
12 posted on
12/12/2009 1:53:56 PM PST by
denydenydeny
(The Left sees taxpayers the way Dr Frankenstein saw the local cemetery; raw material for experiments)
To: GonzoII
"but Muslims only represent about 4 percent of the population"
Only ? That's 4 percent too many.
13 posted on
12/12/2009 5:20:29 PM PST by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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