Thread: Mosques with or without Minaret?
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Old 20.10.2006, 17:14
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Re: Mosques with or without Minarette?
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Maybe I'm fortunate having grown up in a city with a large moslem population, Cape Town. I heard the call to prayer in the morning, I saw minarettes all over the place, I got the sweets and samoosas in the evenings during Ramadan. I don't see the problem with having minarettes as part of a Swiss city skyline. But I think it's the part of the "New World vs Old World" topic that Mark mentioned in another thread.
Why isn't it new v old world? The 'natives' of the Cape were subdued long ago and other cultures, beliefs and languages were surplanted.

Being brought up in SouthAfrican culture it is clear that you would not see a problem with a Swiss city skyline which contained minarettes. However, the 'natives' of Switzerland have lived and farmed here for 900 years and survived into the 21st century without invasion. Now feel they are being invaded, it would be very odd if they didn't resist...