Tuesday, May 08, 2007
In Switzerland - Minarets
Is there a minaret in your community's future?...
At SwissInfo.org, Adam Beaumont reports:
"People's Party parliamentarian Ulrich Schluer, who is co-president of the campaign committee, argues that the construction of minarets will create problems in communities and threaten the peace.
This has already happened in cantons Solothurn and Bern where plans to build minarets have run into local opposition.
'The minaret has nothing to do with religion: it is not mentioned in the Koran or other important Islamic texts. It just symbolises a place where Islamic law is established,' Schluer told swissinfo."
