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What are the Muslims response over Swiss votes banning the construction of minarets in the country? Here’s what a Swiss imam, Youssef Ibram, imam at the Geneva mosque, has to say as he told AFP:
The Muslim world must respect, without accepting the decision. But it must respect the Swiss decision. Otherwise, we would be the first victims.
I think his response is very calm and elegant. Giving example to Muslims outside Switzerland how they should react. If you behave as low as others behave to you, you’re equal or even lower than them. Set a higher moral standard for yourself. Only then, you’ll get respect from others. If not, you have respected your own self.
Who says that only the (mostly uneducated) Muslims who show intolerance towards other’s religious followers? The (educated) Swiss Christians do as well. They even cannot stand to see a minaret.
The “Yes” vote – to amend the constitution in favor of banning minarets – stunned experts who had predicted the measure would be rejected. It also sent ripples of anxiety across the country’s Muslim community, which makes up about six percent of Switzerland’s population.
Some 57.5 percent of voters backed the initiative, which was championed by the nationalist Swiss People’s Party. The party argues that minarets are a symbol of Islamic political power. There are only four minarets in Switzerland and they will not be affected by the ban.
Public opinion polls ahead of the election predicted that the measure would be rejected, and the Swiss government had urged citizens to vote against it.
Some Swiss leaders justifies the move arguing that the minaret is a symbol of disintegration rather than integration.
The minaret “is a political symbol against integration; a symbol more of segregation, and first of all, a symbol to try to introduce Sharia law parallel to Swiss rights,” Ulrich Schluer said in a telephone interview. Schluer is one of the leaders of the Egerkingen Committee, which authored the bill, and member of parliament with the conservative Swiss People’s Party.
Well, what if Muslims in other parts of the world, where they are in majority, are having similar opinion against their Christian counterparts? What would Westerners think?
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