A vote in Switzerland banning the construction of minarets on new mosques is drawing criticism from Jewish groups.
The national referendum Nov. 29 passed with 57.5 percent of the vote. The extreme right-wing Swiss People’s Party, the largest party in the Swiss Parliament, strongly promoted the measure.
“The referendum result amounts to an attack on the fundamental values of mutual respect,” American Jewish Committee Executive Director David Harris said Tuesday. “While there are certainly understandable concerns in Europe over Islamist extremism, these cannot be legitimately addressed through a blanket assault on Muslim communities and their religious symbols.”
It is really fascinating how Jewish people try to push multiculturalism and Islam in Europe while they are ethnically cleansing Israel of every Palestinian. Even though Muslims are the authors of dozens of terrorist attacks in Europe and even in America, through 9/11 which people seem to have already forgotten. Arabs should be banned forever from the West!
The Anti-Defamation League in a statement Tuesday urged the Swiss government to be vigilant in its commitment to ensuring freedom of religion.
“This is not the first time a Swiss popular vote has been used to promote religious intolerance,” Robert Sugarman, ADL national chair, and Abraham Foxman, its national director said in a released statement. “A century ago, a Swiss referendum banned Jewish ritual slaughter in an attempt to drive out its Jewish population.”
U.S. Sen. Benjamin Cardin, chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (U.S. Helsinki Commission) and his co-chairman, Rep. Alcee Hastings, expressed concern over the minaret ban.
“The Swiss vote to ban minarets is worrying for a number of reasons, including the fact the Swiss people have seen fit to limit the religious practice of one particular group,” Cardin said. “I trust the Swiss government will work swiftly to be sure the Swiss are not viewed as an intolerant people.”
“I hope the Swiss courts will overturn this referendum, and that the Swiss government will double its efforts to implement anti-discrimination laws and have an open and honest dialogue about religious and ethnic tolerance,” Hastings said.
The Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities opposed the measure.
Muslims make up about 5 percent of the Swiss population.
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Is it really The Jews that want to destroy all western countries?
Hell with the Jews. Who are they to make such comments?
A bunch of mean,spiteful,greeeeeeeedy,nations-rackers,parasites whose final solution is coming closer and closer by operation of their own interference and misdeeds.
Apparently, the Jews want the “freedom of “religion” for the Muslims”. Europeans have their own Religion. They don’t need the backword,anti-women,anti-civilization,violent,terroristic,fake religion of Islam.
Hell to the Jews. They never did anything good.
It’s time to muzzle the Jews and put them in concentration camps in some desert so they can get lost again.
This woman is a nigger lover so are 95% of all White women,therefore, it’s not a surprise.
Did any of you see the french TV commercial where a mulatto man comes out of a washing machine and two women saying that: mulatto (color) was better than being White?!!!
A great radio personality in NYC, Bob Grant, used to say: “It’s sick out there and getting sicker”.