Minarets in Switzerland

[OakLeaf]

I also think that honor killing, like Chinese girl babies given away at birth to orphanages in China...happens but not as frequently as outsiders think.

IMO it's just the opposite. There have been at least a dozen honor killings among white, almost certainly Christian families in Ohio alone just in the past year. It's just that the press in predominantly Christian countries calls them "honor killings" when they're committed by Muslims, and nothing at all when they're committed by Christians or people of other religions.

[shootingstar]

IMO it's just the opposite. There have been at least a dozen honor killings among white, almost certainly Christian families in Ohio alone just in the past year. It's just that the press in predominantly Christian countries calls them "honor killings" when they're committed by Muslims, and nothing at all when they're committed by Christians or people of other religions.

So presumably, in the press, these dozen killings in Christian families are merely reported as domestic violence, /family member murder/homicide?

Thx for the reminder.

[Thorn]

A new perspective on the saga (I want to fly to Switzerland just to hug him)

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126264916012115609.html

In November, Switzerland voted to ban the construction of new minarets, the towerlike structures that adorn mosques. A week or so later, in an apparent act of defiance, a new minaret unexpectedly sprang up here.

But the new minaret is not attached to a mosque; this small town near Geneva doesn't even have one. And it's not the work of a local Muslim outraged by Switzerland's controversial vote to ban the structures, which often are used to launch the call to prayer.

.Instead, Bussigny's minaret is attached to the warehouse of a shoe store called Pomp It Up, which is part of a Swiss chain. It was erected by the chain's owner, Guillaume Morand, who fashioned it out of plastic and wood and attached it to a chimney. The new minaret, nearly 20 feet high and illuminated at night, is clearly visible from the main highway connecting Lausanne and Geneva.