Zurich Allows Anti-Minaret Poster

[Loyalist]

Switzerland's biggest city, Zurich, has allowed the use of a controversial poster which urges a ban on the building of minarets in the country.

The poster shows a woman dressed in a burka in front of black minarets standing on a Swiss flag.

But Zurich city council said campaign posters were protected by free speech.

The advert is being used by the far-right Swiss People's Party (SVP) ahead of next month's referendum on whether to ban the building of new minarets.

The Swiss Federal Commission Against Racism said earlier this week that the poster was "tantamount to the denigration and defamation of the peaceful Swiss Muslim population".

Some media reports have said the minarets resemble missiles.

New opinion poll

Zurich city council said on Thursday that although it disapproved of the "negative and dangerous" poster, it had to be accepted as part of political free speech ahead of the 29 November national referendum.

The city followed the examples of Geneva, Lucerne and Winterthur, who earlier also gave the green light to the use of the SVP's advert.

But a number of Swiss cities - including Basel, Lausanne and Fribourg - have banned the advert in public spaces.

Meanwhile, an opinion poll on Thursday showed that 51% of those questioned would reject the proposed ban.

Nearly 35% of the respondents supported the ban, according to the poll in the Tages-Anzeiger newspaper.

Switzerland is home to some 300,000 Muslims, who make up about 4% of the population.

It has hundreds of mosques, but only a handful of them have minarets.

Plans to build more minarets prompted the campaign for a ban.

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[Loyalist]

Unfortunately, it looks like the ban is going to be rejected. This is what I've been finding so frustrating about Switzerland as of late; the decidedly more "democratic" nature of the Swiss state has given the people a fantastic opportunity, completely denied to other western countries, to reject immigration and multiculturalism (another referendum on allowing Eastern Bloc nationals to immigrate recently ended in a "yes" vote) on a national scale. But every time, they vote to plunge another dagger into the fabric of their society and let waves of migrants flood in, and with them, their alien cultures.

[Óttar]

Doesn't matter if they ban minarets, if they have 4,000 mosques, and apeshit clerics to boot.

[Mesrine]

Mosques should be built in the local style, rather than being fake and standardized like all the recent ones are.

[Vulpix]

This is the poster:

[Freomæg]

There's a Europe-wide multicultural/Islamification agenda. I don't see why even the likes of Switzerland should be exempt? Because it's not in the EU? Neither is Norway and look at Oslo.

I've heard mention recently of 'the Eurabia Agreement', whereby a deal was struck between the Muslims States of the middle-east and Europe to exchange population for oil access, or something. I can't seem to find much written about this on the net. But it makes sense.

If Islam wants to colonise Europe, it must ensure that Muslims migrate to non-EU states like Switzerland also, not just the non-democratic, weak nations like France, Britain, Sweden, Germany and Holland.

[sturmwalkure]

Mosques should be built in the local style, rather than being fake and standardized like all the recent ones are.

They shouldn't even be built at all. The fucking Muslims need to GTFO out of Switzerland and all European nations.

This is what should be done with the mosques.

[Mesrine]

They shouldn't even be built at all.

Religious freedom, anyone?

The fucking Muslims need to GTFO out of Switzerland and all European nations.

You mean even European Muslims should get out of their own countries?

This is what should be done with the mosques.

You don't belong to Europe so don't tell us what we should do/be, and STFU. This is what should be done with your foreign POV.

[sturmwalkure]

You mean even European Muslims should get out of their own countries?

Muslims are not European, nor should they be in European countries. Seriously, all the stinking, retarded Muslim scum in Europe should be round up and exterminated. They are hateful, fucking parasites. I am more European than any of them will ever be.

[Mesrine]

Muslims are not European

Off-subject. Islam is a religion, not a nationality or an ethnicity.

nor should they be in European countries.

I'm afraid you don't have your word to say about that.

Seriously, all the stinking, retarded Muslim scum in Europe should be round up and exterminated. They are hateful

LOL. Who's been hateful here?

I am more European than any of them will ever be.

No one can be less European than you, Heilfichka.