What are you rambling on about? Nobody is proposing knocking down anything in Switzerland, they want to construct a new mosque not destroy what's already there.
Switzerland appears to have backed minaret ban
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For those that pretend not to understand one country's drive to maintain its own cultural and architectural character regardless of religious diversity - try to obtain planning permission for building replica of gothic cathedral in any of the middle eastern muslim countries.
I quite like gothic cathedrals, would be nice to see one sat on the banks of the Bosphorus.
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The truth is, that if a majority of Swiss people don't want them to be built, is it not up to them to decide? I could understand outrage if the Swiss government took it upon themselves to make this call, but in reality it was the Swiss people. Surely in their own country they are entitled to vote to ban / accept / promote whatever they see fit?
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It's not permitted to call to prayer from UK mosques in the traditional way or with loudspeakers but I'm sure they will eventually succeed in getting the law changed.
Most UK mosques inc. the new one at Redditch have a minaret with no access
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Wanting to preserve your nation's culture and heritage isn't fascistTrying to destroy it could be described as such though.
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No, of course not. They only ahve strict regulations in a few tousit villages and town centres.
It’s basically planning law.
A building must, be in keeping with its surroundings & respect the architectural heritage of that area.
This applies to all buildings with one exception Mosques (well any religious structure, but no one is else is building them but that’s another story)
They wouldn’t be allowed to be built here, if we weren’t living in a country gone P.C mad & councils terrified of stepping on anyone’s toes.
If any council in this country blocked planning permission for a mosque there would be an uproar, you would see marches in the street & burning effigies of the councillors who blocked it.
The buildings don’t fit there for there shouldn’t be built!
With no exceptions, good job to Switzerland for standings up to them.
A building must, be in keeping with its surroundings & respect the architectural heritage of that area.
This applies to all buildings with one exception Mosques (well any religious structure, but no one is else is building them but that’s another story)
They wouldn’t be allowed to be built here, if we weren’t living in a country gone P.C mad & councils terrified of stepping on anyone’s toes.
If any council in this country blocked planning permission for a mosque there would be an uproar, you would see marches in the street & burning effigies of the councillors who blocked it.
The buildings don’t fit there for there shouldn’t be built!
With no exceptions, good job to Switzerland for standings up to them.
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Aside from the noise they may create I don't see anything wrong with them...
I only a NIMBY opinion of them, same as those awful church towers, due to the noise they make...
But they are nice structures and I can't see how they can ''pollute the skyline'' like some people say here.
I disagree, get rid of all that old junk and build modern buildings imo. Hate old cities personally (how they look). Heritage my ***, build modern skyscrapers instead far nicer to look at. And while they're at it, build em in a way that there's enough space between them for wide roads and enough parking...
I only a NIMBY opinion of them, same as those awful church towers, due to the noise they make...
But they are nice structures and I can't see how they can ''pollute the skyline'' like some people say here.
I disagree, get rid of all that old junk and build modern buildings imo. Hate old cities personally (how they look). Heritage my ***, build modern skyscrapers instead far nicer to look at. And while they're at it, build em in a way that there's enough space between them for wide roads and enough parking...
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No it isn't. Should we ban gay marriage if that's what the majority of this country decides?
There are some things which you simply do not take to popular vote.
No, the government is their to protect groups rights. So it should not always do what the public wants.
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Sorry my view is completely different. A country should be run in the way the majority of people want it to be run. Anything other than this is simply not a democracy.
Why not go the whole way and just ban the Muslims
No no no.
Dirty Dog would probably let the "white British" muslims stay.
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So goodbye to your religious freedoms then. You realise how screwed atheists would be under your idea of democracy?
So you realize how that would affect school children?
I'm pretty sure you could round up enough people to get the teaching of evolution banned, or religious studies banned.
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I do, but I see it as the only way to run a society. Whenever you curb the right of people, citizens, to direct the way a country is run, a society tends to fail. I don't think for one second atheists would be in "trouble" in the UK, they probably make up the vast majority of the population
So, since a vast majority of British people dispise the BNP then clearly by your logic the party should be forecfully disbanded and made illegal, all BNP voters can then be rounded and arrested for racial hatred.