Switzerland About To Vote On Minaret Ban

[Subotan]

Demos-Kratos "Rule by the People". It has nothing to do with minority rights at all, that is, along with "speration of powers" a product of French Enlightenment thinking. It isn't necessarily right.

An effective democracy must protect minority rights. Your argument is like saying Televisions can't transmit sound, because they're made up of "Tele" and "Visio", and have nothing to do with sounds.

I believe California has been 'direct democrafied' into bankruptcy, hasn't it?

The Economist described California's direct democracy quite aptly as "The Crack Cocaine of Democracy"

[drone]

The Economist described California's direct democracy quite aptly as "The Crack Cocaine of Democracy"

On topic, don't really have much to add. The picture of the minaret in the original article is pretty interesting. Apart from the electric blue roof, it looks like they Swissified it fairly well. I wonder if they have problems with snow accumulation on the catwalk.

[HoreTore]

The thing about this ban is that it's specified against one particular type of building.

And that's idiotic on every level.

Have your building codes, make them however you wish, I don't care. But make the building code itself so good that it covers all the things you don't want, without the need to point out particular buildings to be banned.

McDonald's was mentioned earlier. There's no law specifically banning extremely big M's, but they can't be built anyway because they're banned by the building code, even though there's no law specifically targeting big M's. Having a specific law against every single construction you don't want is idiotic - just make a proper building code that covers all the unwanted buildings.

Another drawback of doing it like the swiss have done is that there is bound to be loopholes, some clever guy is going to find a way around it. "There's no Minaret on that mosque, my good sir! That's a very beautiful Winaret we built!"

[CrossLOPER]

The thing about this ban is that it's specified against one particular type of building.

And that's idiotic on every level
...."There's no Minaret on that mosque, my good sir! That's a very beautiful Winaret we built!"

That sums up my feelings.