On 12/02/09 15:11, Warp wrote:
> Florian Pesth<fpe### [at] gmxde>  wrote:
>> If it is about forbidding
>> muslims to have a tower to signal the start of a prayer - like christians
>> do - than yes, I think this is xenophobic and the outcry of people in
>> whole europe is fully justified.
>
>    Hence democracy is a bad thing because people can vote for the wrong
> things.

	Don't know about the Swiss, but in the US, passing a law that targets a 
particular recognized religious group would be ruled unconstitutional. 
The constitution simply doesn't allow it - regardless of what the 
majority says (unless it involves national security or something).

	As someone on a forum elsewhere pointed out: If you can allow any laws 
on the grounds that the majority wants it, then you don't have a 
functioning constitution.

-- 
Even if you win the rat race, you are still a rat.

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