In a referendum this sunday Swiss voters supportedan initiative that bans minarets from being built in Switzerland by 57,5,% to 42,5%. In the parlance of US constitutional law, this is a "bill of attainder", i.e. a law that selectively disenfranchises a specifically trageted social group. It is, in other words, a discriminatory law. It can also be used, by Islamist fundamenalist recruiters, as the final proof that Western democracy is indeed, as they have always claimed, fundamentally anti-Islamic. Just when you thought Obama was closing down Guantanamo and robbing Al Qaeda of their primary recruiting tool, the Swiss step in and help the Islamists out.
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