2009/12/1 Rajan P. Parrikar <parri...@yahoo.com>: > > Goans should take a leaf out of the Swiss book and ban new mosques and > muezzin calls that the migrants want to bring to Goa. The most visible > structure in the Chimbel slum - visible to the naked eye from the > Mandovi bridge - is the mosque. > Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 13:05:13 +0530 From: Frederick Noronha <fredericknoro...@gmail.com>
BERN, Oct 26 (IPS) - Switzerland's Muslim community is witnessing a xenophobic campaign by the political right-wing ahead of a vote next month on the banning of Islamic minarets. Mario observes: Fat chance is right as Rajan acknowledges right in his title, because Muslims are part and parcel of Indian society, and the constitution guarantees freedom of religion and special protections for Muslims. Notwithstanding the Chimbel slum, I don't think it is Muslims who dominate the immigrants flocking to Goa. Besides, Indian Muslims are quite different in secular sentiment and mentality from many other Muslims especially those in the middle-east and north Africa. The reason I say this is because Indian Muslims prefer to live as a 14% minority in a secular India whereas they could join a 95% plus majority in either Pakistan or Bangladesh at any time. The last time I checked Muslims were not working over-time to change India into a Muslim theocracy. Most of the immigrants to Europe are coming from the middle-east and north-Africa, including a pernicious radical element that the Europeans are only now waking up to, after deluding themselves for decades with left wing notions of social superiority and benefits of diversity. The radical Muslim immigrants to Europe have no interest in diversity - they want to change the effete and weak minded liberal European society into a society governed by Sharia law, and the Europeans seem powerless to do anything about it. Banning minarets and burqas is not going to stop the radicals or even slow them down.
