Muslims, Wind Your Necks In! Is Sarkozy Right?

[Kerosene]

President Sarkozy of France is backing the Swiss ban on minarets by "advising" Muslims to be "more discreet" when living in predominantly Christian countries.

Is he right? Does he have a valid point? Or is he simply displaying homophobic tendencies towards a minority faith in his country? Why shouldn't Muslims have as much of a voice as Christians?

http://www.timesonlin...pe/article6948905.ece

[ummmm]

Is he right...Yes
Does he have a valid point...Yes
Or is he simply displaying homophobic tendencies towards a minority faith in his country...No
Why shouldn't Muslims have as much of a voice as Christians....They can. In Muslim countries.

[ELVIS68]

He is right, muslims should keep their faith to themselves, we don`t need this Sugar

[daffy654]

Homophobic?
That word has nothing to do with religion.

[ChuckFickens]

possibly xenophobia was the word they were looking for.

[woofgang]

I actually like to see the varying kinds or architecture brought to this country by different groups of people. I think that its really important that we shouldn't tar all Muslims with the same brush, the same as all Irish when the Troubles were at their height. BUT Religions MUST operate within the legal framework of the country of residence. This means no prejudice, equal freedom of speech and action for both genders and so on.

[Quinlad]

Argh! Argh! The minarets are offending my eyeline! Help!

Some people love being offended don't they?

[Sqad]

ummmm has produced all my thoughts in one post.

[bazwillrun]

As a Swiss politician said " todays its only 4 minarets, tomorrow its 40 then its 400 then its ....."

just like over here they are a creeping cancer that will try and dominate if we let them, remember those ten thousand asians idi amin kicked out ? well look at how many we have today, remember those few thousand windrush west indians , look how many we have today.

[anotheoldgit]

woofgang

// I actually like to see the varying kinds or architecture brought to this country by different groups of people.///

Can you be more explicit?

What do you say about a few dozen 'Travellers Caravans' at the bottom of your garden?

Or perhaps a real South African 'Shanty Town', just down the road?

Or maybe a few 'Chinese Junks' moored in your favourite Cornish harbour?

Or a few 'Sky Scrapers' built in a typical English village, maybe?

Well why not go the whole hog, let's bulldoze all our traditional British tourist attractions, and start all over again, this time to image the multi racial, multi culture country, we have become?

[fredpuli47]

What are existing planning laws for? You need planning permission to build a church or a mosque. Islam does not require a minaret, which is why, for example, only a few mosques in Switzerland have one. It's no more essential to a mosque than a spire is essential to a church. Sarkozy's France has strict planning laws. Switzerland has planning laws too.

So what's the problem?

[Quinlad]

I love it when people try to masquerade xenophobiaa and Islamophobia as concern for architectural integrity.

[Kerosene]

Apologies - For "homophobic" please read "xenophobic" - it was late when I posted !!!

[youngmafbog]

If the French do it then we will have to follow suit, afterall Brown has signed our right to be independant anyway and we will have to follow europe.

Perhaps he actually did a good think in restrospect ?

[Oneeyedvic]

///As a Swiss politician said " todays its only 4 minarets, tomorrow its 40 then its 400 then its ....." ///

Then it will be 4000, then it will be 40,000, then it will be 400,000, then it will be 4 million, then it will be 40 million....
....
then it will be 40 million, trillion gazillion.

[ludwig]

I'm sorry, but if you're not happy for minarets to be built everywhere it means you're a racist. That's quite clear.

[ummmm]

And me, but I've only just found that out.