{"id":8509,"date":"2009-11-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/11\/29\/europe-reacts-to-the-swiss-minaret-ban\/"},"modified":"2009-11-29T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T12:00:00","slug":"europe-reacts-to-the-swiss-minaret-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/11\/29\/europe-reacts-to-the-swiss-minaret-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe Reacts to the Swiss Minaret Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/thelede.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/30\/europe-reacts-to-the-swiss-minaret-ban\/?hp\">thelede.blogs.nytimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>USA, November 30, 2009: When Swiss voters overwhelmingly approved a ban on construction of minarets in a referendum on Sunday, they surprised some pollsters and disappointed many European leaders, including those of their own government, who opposed the ban and now must find a way to implement it.<\/p>\n<p>Europe found itself thrust into another round of soul-searching precipitated by yet another clash over integrating &#8212; or not integrating &#8212; a swelling Muslim population. In France, similar debates have focused not on architecture but on how some Muslim women dress. &#8220;I am a bit shocked by this decision,&#8221; French Exterior Minister Mr. Kouchner said; &#8220;It is an expression of intolerance.&#8221;<br \/>Muslim response in Europe has so far been measured, including a small protest in Bern, Switzerland, on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>Right-wing politicians plan to propose similar bans in Denmark and the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>Blogger David Kopel writes that Article 9 of the European convention will probably be the basis for legal challenges to the Swiss ban. As the second part of that article says:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Freedom to manifest one&#8217;s religion or beliefs shall be subject only to such limitations as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society in the interests of public safety, for the protection of public order, health or morals, or the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: thelede.blogs.nytimes.com USA, November 30, 2009: When Swiss voters overwhelmingly approved a ban on construction of minarets in a referendum,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}