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aziz 5:40 am on November 29, 2009 | 2 Permalink | Reply
Tags: architecture (7), religious freedom (20), switzerland (23)

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  buzz 2:55 pm on November 29, 2009 Permalink | Reply
  

  comment at NY Times on the win for the Swiss conservative right.

  “That Switzerland, a country with a long tradition of religious tolerance and the provision of refuge to the persecuted, should have accepted such a grotesquely discriminatory proposal is shocking indeed,” David Diaz-Jogeix, Amnesty International’s deputy program director for Europe and Central Asia, said in a statement.

  The result represents a deep embarrassment for the government, which had strongly opposed the motion, and leaves it with a complex political and legal tangle. With the vote Sunday, the ban on minaret construction automatically becomes part of the Constitution, said Lukas Goldber, an analyst at gfs.bern, a political and social research institute.

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    buzz 2:56 pm on November 29, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    

    One would have thought that the vote on such a measure would be illegal.

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