"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> a écrit dans le message de groupe de 
discussion : 4b2546a0$1@news.povray.org...
> Neeum Zawan wrote:
>>     And this has what to to do with minarets
>
> Minarets are a platform (literally) to call muslims publicly to prayer and 
> have them join together in public.  Perhaps a "quiet" religion is more 
> acceptable than a publicly noisy one to the general populace.

Countries like Switzerland have building codes, zoning laws etc. People 
can't build tall towers in the middle of cities and start using loudspeakers 
at 5am without any sort of oversight. There are 4 minarets in Switzerland 
and 10-12 in France, all purely ornemental. Problems with minarets: zero. 
The biggest one is actually in Paris and inaugurated in 1926 to great 
fanfare. If the right-wing party behind the referendum had been talking 
about actual Islam-related issues, it could have made some sense, but 
talking about minarets is just nonsensical and meant to insult the local 
muslims in order to win seats at their expense. It's a completely bogus 
controversy fueled deliberately by off-the-shelf xenophobia. It's a frigging 
shame to see that in 2009 in Europe.

G.

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