Comments on: Closing the ‘hijab murder’ file http://chronikler.com Byte-sized muse and views Wed, 23 May 2012 02:35:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: KhaledDiab http://chronikler.com/europe/gender-issues/closing-the-hijab-murder-file/comment-page-1/#comment-151 KhaledDiab Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:22:45 +0000 http://chronikler.com/?page_id=1161#comment-151 Declan, extremists do seem to be gaining ground, and the minaret ban is troubling and will, as you point out, add fuel to the fire. Though minarets are superfluous architectural elements and do not, in any practical sense, infringe on freedom of worship, the undertones are rather frightening. By the way, here's a piece I did on it. Declan, extremists do seem to be gaining ground, and the minaret ban is troubling and will, as you point out, add fuel to the fire. Though minarets are superfluous architectural elements and do not, in any practical sense, infringe on freedom of worship, the undertones are rather frightening.

By the way, here’s a piece I did on it.

]]> By: Declan http://chronikler.com/europe/gender-issues/closing-the-hijab-murder-file/comment-page-1/#comment-150 Declan Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:30:55 +0000 http://chronikler.com/?page_id=1161#comment-150 The (surprising) vote to ban the construction of minarets on mosques in Switzerland will further add fuel to this fire. Again an apathetic centre has lost ground to the energised extreme (the Swiss Peoples Party in this case), it's not a good message to send to the world.. this I suppose is the flip side of the Swiss model of referanda based democracy. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/29/switzerland-bans-mosque-minarets The (surprising) vote to ban the construction of minarets on mosques in Switzerland will further add fuel to this fire.

Again an apathetic centre has lost ground to the energised extreme (the Swiss Peoples Party in this case), it’s not a good message to send to the world.. this I suppose is the flip side of the Swiss model of referanda based democracy.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/29/switzerland-bans-mosque-minarets

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