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Muslim reaction across the world to Sunday’s Swiss referendum banning the construction of further minarets for mosques in the tiny Alpine nation has been almost entirely negative.
Indonesia’s Maskuri Abdillah, leader of the largest Muslim organization in the world’s most populous Muslim nation said the vote reflected Swiss “hatred” of Islam and Muslims.
Egyptian Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa, close to the regime of President Hosni Mubarak, said the ban was an attempt to “insult the feelings of the Muslim community in and outside Switzerland.”
Yet the referendums outcome pales in comparison to restrictions on non-Muslims who aim to practice their faith in Muslim lands. In fact, the vote only brought Swiss legal practice closer to that of many majority Muslim states that also place limits on the construction of houses of worship.
Here’s a review of practices in four large majority Muslim states: [snip]
... the US State department reported in 2009 that at least 9 churches... were forced shut by violence...
... The Indonesian government has on a number of occasions stepped in to prevent church construction...
... in Egypt, by law, a churches must receive the permission of local Muslim communities before new construction is allowed. The State Department’s religious freedom report on Egypt in 2009 says that such local 'authorities' refuse to process applications without ’supporting documents’ that are virtually impossible to obtain”...
... in Pakistan, The State Department found that “societal discrimination against religious minorities was widespread, and societal violence against such groups occurred.” District level government “consistently refused to grant permission to construct non-Muslim places of worship"...
... in Saudi Arabia the public practice of any faith but Islam is illegal. Christian’s and Jews receive 50 percent of the compensation that a Muslim would receive in personal injury court and the country has no churches at all...
[Should this not be the context this story is reported within? {sadly, rhetorical}
Recall, the Swiss ban, enacted directly by its citizens, applies to one aspect of architecture only (intentionally meant to radiate islamic dominance and from which calls to prayer are routinely broadcast via loud speakers) - no restriction on building mosques or their patronage is included. Yet the left would have us believe there's something wrong with the Swiss for their behavior???]
[I'd say they have.]
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