Swiss Ban Minarets

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Swiss voters back ban on minarets

The short version: A Swiss referendum backed the banning of the construction of new minarets in the country.

Lets make this clear: all this ban has done is stopped the building of minarets, not mosques. Minarets are not an important feature of mosques, in fact historically they are just a feature of Middle Eastern construction that have come to be associated with mosques, but otherwise serve no important religious feature.

It is not uncommon for areas to ban the building of ugly, pointless buildings or features on a building, and minarets frankly look stupid in anywhere apart from the Middle East. They don't belong in Europe, fact.

It's deeply disturbing that the opponents of the ban have tried to paint those who support the ban as out-of-touch, racist, extremist right-wing, fascist Islamophobes. No one in the West likes the look of minarets, they're frankly disgusting.

Discuss.

EDIT: UN has denounced the ban on its Twitter account as it 'discriminates against Muslims'. So, not only are they completely wrong, they are also completed biased. Bang up job all round, you corrupt pen-pushing idiots.