By Catherine Cossy SUISSE. Confin_es dans des halles industrielles, deux communaut_s musulmanes, _ Wangen et _ Langenthal, souhaitent plus de visibilit_ pour leur lieu de culte. Mais les oppositions se multiplier. La premi_re mosqu_e de Suisse a _t_ inaugur_e en 1963 sur les hauts de la ville de Zurich, en pr_sence du maire de l’_poque….
Objections, readers’ letters, a petition: the resistance against the planned minaret in Langenthal continues to grow. As hundreds of signatures are collected, a typical reader’s letter objects to the minaret on the grounds that it would open the floodgates to Islam.
While there is no great threat of Islamic terrorism in Switzerland, its likelihood rose over the last year, according to a recent report by the Swiss federal police. The decentralisation of Islamic terrorism and Europe’s transformation from recruiting and propaganda ground to combat area are two major reasons for this. No act or preparation for…
Zurich’s Muslim organisations have decided to fight prejudice by adopting a groundbreaking charter that underlines their commitment to Swiss values. The document, the first of its kind in Switzerland, aims to improve the integration and the image of Muslims. Ismail Amin, president of the umbrella association of Zurich’s Islamic organisations, said that a study carried…
GENEVA – A majority of Swiss people would support a Muslim woman’s right to wear a headscarf at her workplace, according to an opinion poll on the integration of Islam in Switzerland published on Sunday. Fifty-three percent of those polled said they felt a recent move by a supermarket chain to expressly allow women in…
