Policymakers of the Swiss Right recently began a campaign for a referendum to prohibit the construction of minarets on mosques. Des responsables politiques de la droite suisse ont r’cemment lanc’ une campagne pour la tenue d’un r’f’rendum visant ‘ interdire la construction de minarets sur les mosqu’es. According to representatives of the Union d’mocratique du…
Three members of Switzerland’s seven-strong cabinet have publicly condemned a campaign by rightwingers to ban the construction of minarets On Monday Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey, who also holds the rotating Swiss presidency, told journalists in Geneva that such an initiative “could put Swiss interests and Swiss citizens in danger”. Her comments came a day after…
The campaign recently launched by representatives of the Swiss right to prohibit the construction of minarets on mosques “puts the security of the Swiss in danger” according to the President and Swiss Minister of Immigrant Affairs, Micheline Calmy-Rey. Politicians of the Union d_mocratique du centre (UDC, right populist) and Union d_mocratique f_d_rale (UDF, Christian right)…
Right-wing politicians from Switzerland’s largest political party on Thursday launched a campaign for a referendum to ban the construction of minarets on mosques, claiming they symbolized an Islamist bid for power. The group, including more than half of the Swiss People’s Party’s (SVP) parliamentarians, said in a statement that a ban would help stop “attempts…
The document is a Government’s 88 pages response to a parliamentary motion by the Greens (written in German). It deals with numbers, with exercise of religion (e.g. number of mosques, languages of services, training and origin of imams, residence permits for imams, religious holidays, funeral law, etc), with legal recognition as entities, with state-religion constitutional…
