Will Switzerland Ban Minarets on 29 November?
Will Switzerland be the first Western nation to halt the Islamic colonisation of Europe? This is the question being asked as Swiss voters will decide on 29 November whether or not to ban minarets.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is famous for his quote that “Minarets are our bayonets. The domes are our helmets, the mosques our barracks and the believers our army”, and it is this sort of comment which has raised alarm in normally placid Switzerland about the dangers posed by Islamic colonisation.
The struggle between those who seek Switzerland destroyed under a wave of Muslim immigration, and those who wish to preserve that European nation, have reached a highpoint after Muslims won the right to build a minaret in the Swiss municipality of Wangen bei Olten (pictured alongside).
The small municipality, located at the foot of the Jura Mountains, has had a mosque built in its centre despite vehement resistance from the indigenous population.
The local Christian churches collected signatures, lodged official complaints and spoke publicly against it. The local Catholic and evangelical communities were united in announcing their opposition.
It was all in vain. Switzerland’s highest court approved the building plans of the local Turkish ‘cultural association’ and now a six meter (20 foot) tall minaret provides proof of the victory of Islam in that town.
According to anti-Islamification campaigner Daniel Zingg from the Federal Democratic Union party, the “minaret is only the first step.” Mr Zingg said minarets are “symbols of Muslim victories over newly conquered lands” and “precursors to the introduction of Islamic Shariah law.”
The colonisers have not had everything their own way. Mr Zingg has been able to prevent the construction of a minaret in Langenthal, near to Wangen bei Olten, by arguing that it would be a “source of ideological emissions.”
If Swiss voters approve the ban on minarets, they will not be the first country in the world to ban religious towers — Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan already have laws banning Christian churches and steeples.
Switzerland’s Swiss People’s Party (SVP) have also joined in the anti-minaret campaign and have launched yet another of their highly controversial posters in support of their programme.
The poster (alongside) shows a burka-clad woman against a backdrop of minarets sticking out of the Swiss flag. The leftist opponents of the campaign, in their hysterical reaction to the poster, have already generated more publicity than the SVP ever could.
The SVP poster has been banned in the towns of Basel Freiburg, Lausanne, Morges, Neuenburg, Nyon and Yverdon. However, it has been allowed in Biel, Chur, Geneva, Lucerne, Olten, St. Gallen, Winterthur and Zürich.
Each time a city either allowed or banned the poster, local newspapers gave the decision massive publicity — and reproduced the poster, generating what one observer estimated was half a million Swiss Francs worth of publicity.
The number of Muslims in Switzerland has grown from 56,000 in 1980 to over 400,000 today.
