Wednesday, November 14, 2007
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
R. John Matthies: Political Islam Gets Switzerland's Goat - '...Mr. Freysinger and his party may well be "paranoid," as critical journalists have claimed; but with the appeal of their message and the result of October's elections, they have succeeded in demanding the famously neutral Swiss to decide between (1) Western multiculturalism, which views the minaret as symbol of "respect, cohesion, and citizen solidarity"; or (2) the national tradition of direct democracy, in which the people's will (however paranoid) is binding. Will minarets one day festoon the Alpine horizon? It's for the Swiss to decide if that's a good thing-or if, as Zottel claims, it's ba-a-a-a-ad.'
