Swiss minaret

A large majority of Swiss don't seem to appreciate slender minarets clashing with the beauty of the Alps as almost 60% of the population rejected additional construction of these architectural accessories to mosques. They are saying loudly what the rest of Europe doesn't have to courage to articulate, namely that extreme religion is extremely bad for everyone and a secular society that works well doesn't have to go out of its way to roll out the red carpet to fanaticism.

Since religion isn't my cup of tea and I see absolutely no reason to promote this lingering form of superstition, I do agree that the irrationality of faith is a permanent time-bomb waiting for the next charismatic Jim Jones or Ayatollah Khomeini to explode out of the blue, into full-blown totalitarianism like the kind we're seeing these days in Iran. Further, snowy peaks and minarets remind me of Sarajevo and while this might be for the wrong circumstances, I see bad omen in the combination of Muslim spires and Alpine vistas. In closing, a word of advice to leaders that govern us: We need lots of efforts placed on re-inventing our economies, no more bricks and mortars for erecting minarets!