A member of the Swiss political party that pushed for the minaret ban is a convert to Islam:
Streich has left the SVP, made his conversion to Islam public, and has denounced the SVP’s anti-Muslim campaign as a witch hunt.
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abunoor 9:55 am on February 4, 2010 Permalink |
This story has been making the rounds in Muslim circles lately and unfortunately some sources seem to be misrepresenting it. As you can see from Thabet’s link, this man left the party and denounced the anti-minaret campaign before the vote. He was a local politician, who as noted has been Muslim privately for two years before his public announcement and he wasn’t leading any anti-Muslim campaign during that time.
Here is a good example of how the story is being (it seems to me deliberately but Allaahu Alam I don’t actually know anything other than what is in the blog post that Thabet linked to) mischaracterized and exaggerated for some kind of propaganda value — or just to make it a better story.