The swiss are about to vote on a ban on Muslim Minarets in the country. The ban is controversial but it appears that the majority of Swiss believe the ban is a good idea.
Critiques feel otherwise. They think that the ban amounts to a specific discrimination against Islam. Other religions, they say, enjoy freedoms similar to the placement of minarets. Islam is singled out..
The advocates for the ban are convinced that Islamic minarets represent a "conquering" of swiss territory. There argument is that muslim minarets have been used to "mark territory" in the past, the same being true today in Switzerland.
In some ways, however, one cannot blame the proponents of the ban. Islam, especially when state-enforced, is fundamentally against freedom of religion and thought, both things that the Swiss enjoy in plenty.
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