The citizens of Switzerland just voted to bar the erection of minarets in their country. The Muslim world is in a bit of an uproar about it.
I’ll grant you it’s a trifle xenophobic. Well, more than a trifle. Still, it’s hard to see how the Muslims can complain, when there are Muslim countries that impose the death penalty on apostates and generally make life miserable for those that don’t share their faith. Banning buildings, as unjustified as that might be, is weak beer in comparison. It’s an odd thing that, other than the Quakers, those who experience religious persecution are capable of seeing the injustice in it, until they gain enough power to do the persecuting themselves.
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