a minority of racists, mostly in the German speaking part, voted to ban minarets.
You must be racist to not like new minarets ?
For those who don't think switzerland is racist:
A recent poster from the ultra-right wing UDC party
To be fair, it's a matter of simple maths and statistics, I'll use the NL as an example, the average Dutch family has about 1.2 children, the average Turkish/Moroccan family has 4.
A big city near me, has these kinds of demographics:
1995 2000 2005
Dutch 64,5% 59,4% 54,3%
Foreigners 35,5% 40,6% 45,7%
Turks 6,0% 6,8% 7,6%
Moroccans 4,1% 5,1% 6,1%
Surinamese 7,8% 8,5% 8,8%
People from the Antilles 2,0% 2,7% 3,4%
Every 5 years, there are more and more foreigners, what will happen in a 100 years, will the foreigners outnumber the Dutch ? Will the NL turn into a muslim country ? People don't want that...
I can imagine the Swiss do not want to become a Muslim country either... They want to keep their country as it is.
Can you imagine what would happen if someone would start building Churches around in Muslim countries, Christians in Turkey get intimidated, beat up and have to come together undercover. There is no chance they would allow Christian or even Jewish immigrants to start building churches ( church towers), cathedrals, synagogues...