Good God. Why not synagogues? Or did a neighboring country try that already? It's hard to think of a gesture more useless with respect to a real problem - integration of Muslim immigrants - or clumsier as a way to provoke religious hostility and intolerance and thereby further radicalize Swiss Muslims. But it is a useful reminder that religious liberty and toleration have roots that are not so deep in Europe.
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http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2009/11/the-swiss-ban-minarets/193570/
