Thursday, December 03, 2009
Swiss Ban on minarets
For once, Jews back Muslims. Citing religious discrimination, a diverse coalition of Jewish organizations is objecting to Switzerland's ban of minarets on local mosques.
IMO: But, the tradition for both Jews and Muslims is to self-isolate themselves. For example, Jews in Cochin for 2000 years or Saudi Arabia today. Surely the Swiss have some rights. Roughly this seems to be a situation where militants wish to remove the rights of others - and for all parties to defensively assume that those with views differing from theirs are in the wrong.
Ultimately a simple gloss on the situation might be that Jews want there to be only Jews, Muslims want only there to be only Muslims and the Swiss (after a vote) want to pursue their own lives in peace. To me the Swiss at any rate seems sensible. Enough is enough.
IMO: But, the tradition for both Jews and Muslims is to self-isolate themselves. For example, Jews in Cochin for 2000 years or Saudi Arabia today. Surely the Swiss have some rights. Roughly this seems to be a situation where militants wish to remove the rights of others - and for all parties to defensively assume that those with views differing from theirs are in the wrong.
Ultimately a simple gloss on the situation might be that Jews want there to be only Jews, Muslims want only there to be only Muslims and the Swiss (after a vote) want to pursue their own lives in peace. To me the Swiss at any rate seems sensible. Enough is enough.
# posted by uv : 8:05 PM
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