Friday, December 04, 2009
The Swiss are lying polls! An overwhelming majority (57%) of the "people" said no to the construction of minarets, by Francis Chartrand
The Swiss are prohibiting the construction of minarets
Source: Le Progrès.fr, November 30 2009
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Commentators have universally described the result of "huge surprise" contradicting the polls that predicted during the campaign rejecting the proposal of the populist right by 53% of voters. However, the 26 cantons of Switzerland, only four cantons (Basel-City and the French-speaking cantons of Geneva, Vaud and Neuchatel) have rejected the proposal supported by the UDC party of the populist right and the small Christian party right UDF.
Despite a common front of the Government, other parties and representatives of all religious communities in Switzerland, the UDC has managed to convince.
He hammered it was not to deprive the Muslim places of worship but to refuse the minarets as "visible symbol of a claim of political and religious power, which undermines the fundamental rights". To prevail, the proponents of the ban were not in the shade, with posters showing a woman completely veiled by a burqa before the Swiss flag-covered minarets, whose stylized figure evoked missiles. Declaring "assume" the result, Yvan Perrin, Vice-President of the UDC, acknowledged that "a fit of temper Muslim countries is possible."
This vote is "expressing some concerns among the public about Islamist extremists" to be "taken seriously", said Minister of Police and Justice Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, a defector of the UDC who opposed the ban. The Green Party is considering him an appeal before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg for violating religious freedom.
Switzerland / minarets: the FN satisfy
Source: Le Figaro, November 29, 2009
The Vice-President of French National Front (FN, far right), Marine Le Pen, welcomed the outcome of the referendum banning the construction of minarets in Switzerland, asking "elites to deny the aspirations and fears of people Europeans ".
The Swiss have decided on Sunday in a referendum by an overwhelming majority (57.5% of voters) to prohibit the construction of minarets. "A very clear majority, the Swiss come to defy the polls, denying the massive construction of minarets in Switzerland, welcomed Ms. Le Pen said in a statement.
The polls predicted during the campaign rejecting the proposal of the populist right by 53% of voters. The head frontist noted that "Switzerland, as in France, the elites + + but were massively.
"These elites must stop denying the aspirations and fears of the European peoples who had no objection to religious freedom, reject conspicuous signs that want to impose politico-religious Muslims, often at the limits of provocation" " , she said. "As Nicolas Sarkozy reduced on these topics, his stock at a cynical electioneering," she called "the French who do not have the chance to say in a referendum to do so, massively during the regional elections next March.
Minarets banned in Switzerland: Political favorable reactions from ItalyROME, November 29, 2009 (AFP)
Source: LaCroix.com, November 29, 2009
Several Italian politicians, including a minister and a president of the region have responded positively to the outcome of Sunday referendum banning the construction of minarets in Switzerland, described as a "lesson in democracy." "Switzerland has sent us a clear yes to towers, not the minarets," said Minister of Administrative Simplification Roberto Calderoli (Northern League party populist anti-immigrant) to the Italian news agency Ansa.
"It would appear that the choice of the Swiss people is one part of the respect for freedom of religion, the other the need to curb the political and propaganda associated with Islam," he said. This "should make us think," he said.
For its part, Riccardo De Corato, deputy of the People of Freedom (right party of Silvio Berlusconi) and deputy mayor of Milan, said that "very democratic Switzerland today gave a lesson in Italy, particularly leftists who, if an initiative of this kind had occurred in Italy, have set up barricades and cried foul.
The MEP of the Lega Nord Matteo Salvini also referred to "a great lesson in democracy on the part of Switzerland. "Unfortunately in Italy we do not consult the people to know what he thinks of mosques and Islamic centers," he told the Ansa.
"I am satisfied + not + cons minarets in Switzerland, also said the president of the Veneto region (Veneto, north), Giancarlo Galan. Me too" I voted a hundred times' no, "he said .
The Swiss have decided on Sunday in a referendum by an overwhelming majority (57.5% of voters) to prohibit the construction of minarets.
The minarets banned in Switzerland by popular vote: the shock!
Source: France Info - November 29, 2009
The outcome of the vote is final: 57.5% of Swiss voters approved the ban on building new minarets, as proposed by the populist right.
A result which contradicts the polls, is "ashamed" to the intelligentsia and Swiss breath away its European neighbors, including France ...
"Switzerland is turning to the extreme right" response of Swiss sociologist Jean Ziegler, France Invited guest. "It's a total insult to Muslims who live peacefully in Switzerland [...] This is something that makes me ashamed."
Switzerland does not want minarets A 57%, the Swiss electorate voted to ban them.
Source: Metrofrance.com, November 29, 2009
"The construction of minarets has been banned in Switzerland." The announcement fell on Sunday afternoon, four hours after the Swiss people voted, with 57.5% against the towers that adorn places of Muslim worship.
This vote was a huge surprise to commentators. During the campaign, polls predict left in effect the opposite result. Moreover, almost all political parties, business community and representatives of religious communities in Switzerland had a common front against the ban.
This vote is a victory for the Central Democratic Union (UDC) party of the populist right behind the referendum. The UDC has managed to convince that this was not to deprive the Muslim places of worship but to refuse the minarets as "symbol of a politico-religious claims of power." He had created controversy during the campaign, using posters covered minarets resembling missiles. This Sunday, the Greens announced consider an appeal before the European Court of Human Rights for violating religious freedom.
Meanwhile, the ban must be registered in the Swiss constitution. A text whose preamble proclaims the spirit of "openness to the world" the Swiss people ... "in the name of God Almighty."
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Labels: Francis Chartrand, Human rights, Religion and fanaticism, Switzerland
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