Friday, July 11, 2008

Stranger and stranger for the Swiss

Far right groups in Switzerland have collected enough signatures to force a nationwide referendum on banning minarets, the distinctive towers of Islamic architecture. In what is being seen as a sign of growing Islamophobia in Europe, more than 100,000 Swiss citizens signed a petition to halt the construction of minarets. […]


Seems pretty simple. The people want a referendum on whether or not to ban what many see as symbols of Islam. You may agree, you may disagree, but since Switzerland is a country, and since banning minarets isn't like declaring you are going to destroy Iran (Israel) or building nucelar weapons you'd think it to be an internal matter.

Not so.

Marcel Stüssi, a researcher at Lucerne University […] says any ban would be incompatible with articles of international law to which Switzerland is a signatory. In the event that Swiss voters were to ban minarets, any of the 107 other signatories to the Vienna Convention of the Law of Treaties of 1969 could launch action against Switzerland.


Nothing like having your own elites on the other side..... I mean that would never happen in the US. Right?? Right?? I can't hear youuuuuuuuu!

BrusselsJournal




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