Thread: Egypt mufti says Swiss minaret ban insults Muslims

Swiss Minaret Ban Prompts Muslim Outrage

Sunday, November 29, 2009 9:26 PM
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Egypt mufti says Swiss minaret ban insults Muslims

CAIRO — Egypt's Mufti Ali Gomaa denounced a vote to ban new minarets in Switzerland on Sunday as an "insult" to Muslims across the world, while calling on Muslims not to be provoked by the move.

A solid majority of Swiss voters chose in a referendum to ban the construction of new minarets, the towers attached to mosques from which the call to prayers is announced.

"This proposal...is not considered just an attack on freedom of beliefs, but also an attempt to insult the feelings of the Muslim community in and outside Switzerland," Gomaa, the Egyptian government's official interpreter of Islamic law, told the state-run news agency MENA.

He encouraged Switzerland's 400,000-strong Muslim community to use "dialogue" and legal means to contest the ban, which he described as "provocative behaviour."

The rightist Swiss People's Party (SVP) -- Switzerland's biggest party -- had forced the referendum after collecting a mandatory 100,000 signatures from eligible voters within 18 months.

Gomaa also called on Muslims not to be affected "by this provocation," adding that Islam "considers humanity a single family."

Egypt is the most populous Arab country and was at the forefront of a backlash against Denmark in 2006 after a Danish newspaper printed cartoons of the Prophet Muhammed.

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Swiss Minaret Ban Prompts Muslim Outrage

Sunday, November 29, 2009 9:26 PM

CAIRO — Egypt's Mufti Ali Gomaa denounced a vote to ban new minarets in Switzerland on Sunday as an "insult" to Muslims across the world, while calling on Muslims not to be provoked by the move.

A solid majority of Swiss voters chose in a referendum to ban the construction of new minarets, the towers attached to mosques from which the call to prayers is announced.

"This proposal...is not considered just an attack on freedom of beliefs, but also an attempt to insult the feelings of the Muslim community in and outside Switzerland," Gomaa, the Egyptian government's official interpreter of Islamic law, told the state-run news agency MENA.

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And what right do they have to be "provoked"?

Well, if they don't like it, leave!

Here's what I think:

The Swiss see a coming problem for their society and are taking action,
preventive maintenance or as I see it common sense.

Does anyone really believe Muslims and Christan's can co-exist.?

If the Muslims do not like the results of the referendum they can go back to their country or countries of origin. Or they can seek out a different country to emigrate to that is open to all things Muslim, such as Great Britain. Frankly, my hat is off to the Swiss. Wish we could have some referendums on key issues. Guess the 2010 elections are the closest thing to it.

oldguy wrote,

Does anyone really believe Muslims and Christan's can co-exist.?

Peaceably? No. Not without a tyrannical government to enforce the peace.

an attempt to insult the feelings of the Muslim community in and outside Switzerland," Gomaa, the Egyptian government's official interpreter of Islamic law, told the state-run news agency MENA.

An utterly senseless statement! The accurate contrary position is that the Muslim doctrine's continual purpose and goal is to not only insult Judeo-Christian religions but to exterminate them.

Switzerland has every right to enact whatever ban it wants to preserve its heredity and national identity. If more European countries had done this they wouldn't have been overtaken by hoardes of socially dangerous immigrants.

Muslims can go pound sand!!