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Politics : The Truth About Islam -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ichy Smith who wrote (10614)	10/20/2007 12:57:16 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20106

35 is about twice the number of 9/11 hijackers.

To: Ichy Smith who wrote (10614)	10/20/2007 2:19:15 PM
From: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck	Respond to of 20106

Swiss Muslims Denied Landmark Center IslamOnline.net & News Agencies islamonline.net Hayoz said for the moment there was no land in Bern available to house the Islamic center. BERN — Swiss Muslims expressed deep disappointment Saturday, June 2, at government rejection of plans to build Europe's largest Islamic cultural and economic center in the capital city of Bern. The Bern-Based Islamic coordination group, Umma, said it received the decision with deep regret, the Swiss news agency ATS reported. The Umma group, which proposed the construction of the giant Islamic center, said it hoped that authorities would have a closer examination of the proposal and compared notes with Muslim leaders before turning down the project. The group unveiled in April plans to build the 23,000-square-meter center. The center was planned to include a congress centre, a four-star hotel, a museum, offices and a mosque. Muslim leaders said it was aimed at showing the richness of Islamic culture and introducing Islam to skeptical Europeans. The center was supposedly to be built as a part of a broader project called "Wankdorf City" to redevelop the northern outskirts of Bern. There are about 340,000 Muslims in Switzerland, which has a population of 7.4 million. Forty-three percent of the Muslim minority are of Turkish origin. Islam is the second religion in the country after Christianity. Commercial Use The Bern city council said the land of "Wankdorf City" project was earmarked exclusively for a new regional hospital and office or commercial use, ATS reported. The council added that building the Islamic center was not suitable at that location. Bern City Councillor Barbara Hayoz said that for the moment there was no land in the city available to house the Islamic center. Muslims voiced fears that the Swiss authorities may have been influenced by the recent ferocious right-wing anti-Islam campaigns. The right-wing Swiss People's Party and the Federal Democratic Union lunched a nationwide campaign to collect signatures to ban the construction of mosques with minarets. More and more, the cantonal parliaments of Zurich, Bern, St Gallen and Ticino are considering proposals to make the construction of places of worship, such as mosques, temples and churches, dependent on approval at the ballot box. In November 2006, the Administrative Court in the canton of Solothurn upheld a project to build a mosque with a minaret in the northern town of Wangen. It said in a ruling that the plans to add a six meter (18 foot) minaret to a prayer centre, respected existing and relevant laws. Currently, only two mosques in Zurich and Geneva have a minaret.