Minaret Referendum in Switzerland

Author: Peter Capella Source: Brisbane Times http://news.brisbanetimes.com.au/breaking-news-world/switzerland-confro… Switzerland confronted an international backlash and charges of intolerance on Monday as...

Author: Tariq Ramadan Source: The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/nov/29/swiss-vote-b… It wasn't meant to go this way. For months we had been told that the efforts to ban the construction of minarets in...

Author: Edward Cody Source: The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/25/AR20091… Notre Dame de la Garde, an elegant Roman Catholic basilica, has stood for 150 years on a promontory just south of...

Author: John Tagliabue Source: The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/world/europe/12copenhagen.html?_r=2&e… Paris has its grand mosque, on the Left Bank. So does Rome, the city of the pope. Yet despite a sizable Muslim...

Author: Staff Writer Source: BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8348279.stm Muslims in many parts of Switzerland have invited the public into mosques - three weeks before a vote on whether to ban the construction of minarets. Muslim organisations...

Author: Deborah Ball and Anita Greil Source: The Wall Street Journal http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125738800597529989.html An emotional debate over the role of Islam in Switzerland is heating up as a referendum approaches that would ban the construction...

Author: Frank Jordans Source: Taiwan News Wire Service: AP http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=1077248&lang=eng_news Switzerland's biggest city said Thursday a poster showing missile-like minarets atop a Swiss flag can be displayed ahead of...

Author: Staff Writer Source: Islam Online http://www.islamonline.net/servlet/Satellite?c=Article_C&cid=1252187975… Joining the chorus of voices opposing a minaret ban, Switzerland’s Roman Catholic bishops have urged...

Author: Stephen Brown Source: Ecumenical News International http://www.eni.ch/featured/article.php?id=3338 The Swiss Council of Religions, which groups Jewish, Christian and Muslim leaders, has issued a statement rejecting a call for the country to ban...

Author: Tony Paterson Source: The Independent http://www.independ