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“Uninformed,” that’s the only way to describe the NYTimes editorial opinion regarding the successful Swiss initiative to ban the construction of minarets. The Times editorial writer condemns the Swiss vote, calling it “bigoted and meanspirited.”

In order to hold his opinion the Times writer has to be totally ignorant of the thinking of the Swiss voters who supported the ban in large majorities. An equally uninformed reader of the editorial might very well say, yes, that was disgraceful and silly, for why object to a rather pleasant and attractive architectural feature of the mosque.

But the vote was not at all about minarets, in themselves unobjectable, innocuous symbols of a major world religion. The vote was about the proper place of Islam in modern day Europe.

I call the editorial writer uninformed because otherwise how could he not have seen that the minaret in the eyes of the Swiss voter was not just a harmless symbol of a major world religion. No the minaret was the harmful symbol of a major world wide religion still living in the past, still tied to a now totally rejected view of human nature as embodied in too many passages of the Quran and the hadith, and most particularly in the Sharia stemming therefrom.

For the voters were rejecting the view of man embodied in the Sharia, or Islamic law, and in that regard the minaret ban seems highly rational, highly moral, fully appropriate to circumstances in present day Europe, when Muslim immigrants are arriving in larger and larger numbers, readily taking for themselves all kinds of material goods and advantages, while rejecting the very things that created those goods and advantages, the scientific outlook, reason and the rule of law, democracy, and respect for the individual rights of all peoples.

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