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| Swiss Parliament Votes to Ban Foreign-Funded Mosques and Arabic Preaching |
| 2017-09-30 |
| [Breitbart] Switzerland’s legislature has voted to ban the foreign funding of mosques, including from Saudi Arabia, as well as to force mosques to use local languages instead of Arabic or other foreign tongues. The Swiss National Council, the parliament’s lower house, voted by a narrow majority to ban the financing of mosques from abroad and for generally increasing the transparency of how mosques are funded. If the law passes the Senate, individual mosques will need to declare who they are backed by as well as preach in one of Switzerland’s official languages, namely German, French, Italian, or Romansch, Neue Zuercher Zeitung reports. The vote took place on Tuesday, and according to the Federal Assembly’s website, 94 members of the parliament voted in favour, and 89 voted against. The new law is said to be inspired by a similar law enacted in Austria in 2015, which was designed to encourage a distinctly "European Islam" and to deter radicalisation and foreign influence on the nation’s Muslims. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #10 Squoze one out anyway, tho... It's guerra on terror and Tara! Sing, Crawford, Fontaine, and O'Hara, And comfort poor Arnold, Whose ghost must be startled At West Point become Chez Guevara. |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2017-09-30 23:15 |
| #9 Re Rhyme Time (missed the rollover again last night), sorry, Boss. My subconscious doesn't seem to want to get anywhere near the Rapone thing. BLM at WP? Maddening, sure, but all too comprehensible. This? I'm with Glenmore. Like so many modern "events," it's too garish, too implausible. Two destroyer collisions? No way. It's like hearing that Tom Landry was in the car with Lance Rentzel... and Ike in the trunk, in a clown suit. Can't be happening. |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2017-09-30 23:10 |
| #8 Gunman, spare that camembert! Touch not one nasty slice! In youth, its slime I couldn't bear, But now I find it nice. Also... Amidst the bombardment, a holler: "On Tuesday, I'd pay my last dollar If someone would roll me -- Before the Yanks hole me -- A wheel of sweet Swiss Emmenthaler!" |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2017-09-30 22:58 |
| #7 He's gone with his buddies from the gun club to the deli to shoot the Bries. |
| Posted by: Canuckistan sniper 2017-09-30 18:09 |
| #6 Gouda thing Dave D. Isn't around much. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2017-09-30 17:37 |
| #5 Oh, great. Now we're back to the cheesy puns. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2017-09-30 16:24 |
| #4 Yes Ed, but the language is full of holes. |
| Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance 2017-09-30 15:02 |
| #3 No Frank. They speak Swiss, right? |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2017-09-30 13:23 |
| #2 in one of Switzerland’s official languages, namely German, French, Italian, or Romansch Obama: "Not Austrian?" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2017-09-30 12:45 |
| #1 Someone gets it. Swamp, fever, drain. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-09-30 05:58 |