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.
