Switzerland bans minarets.

[Kasz216]

highwaystar101 said:

Kasz216 said:
My first thought....

"What do the Swiss have against puppets?"

After reading this thread....

There has to be more to this story right? I mean... the Swiss are supposed to be up their when it comes to personal freedoms....

People bag on the US for not having universal health care... but that's the kind of thing we'd never do. (Or at least i'd hope.)

I'm reserving judgment until i find out why though... maybe its architecturally unsound for the climate?

Nope, it was a public vote. About 2.7million people voted on whether to allow minarets, 57.5% voted for banning them. Horrible. Source.

As for being structurally unsound or unappealing for the environment, a minaret is literally just a tower with a dome on top. It is perfectly structurally sound. If it wasn't associated with mosques I bet these people would say they were very attractive too.

Yeah, i dunno.  I just wanted to hope the best of Switzerland.  I always thought they were supposed to be a reasonable country....

then i ran across this.

 

Seems like Mosques had been attacked in the leadup to it too.... scary sadening stuff.