On 2 Dec, 22:28, fran the man <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2 Dez., 17:58, Ian Pollard <[email protected]> wrote:> Fantastic news
> and, despite what you say, very progressive! :)
>
> Er, Ian, I don't believe I personally put forward any opinion as to
> the progressive, or otherwise nature of the decision of the Swiss
> people in my original post. I simply formulated some of the questions
> which are being publicly discussed in Europe following the referendum.
>
> Formally, the Swiss simply decided to forbid the building of minarets
> in their country. No more, no less. Symbolically, of course, writing
> this prohibition into Swiss law means much more - indeed, many
> different things to different people. Personally, I would incline to
> the view that what can and cannot be built is more a matter for local
> authorities and their procedures for granting planning permission. A
> well-designed mosque with minaret may well improve certain urban
> landscapes from an architectural/aesthetic perspective, just as many
> badly designed and situated Christian churches are simply ugly and
> just don't fit in where they are.
>
> The much deeper question of Islam and the relationship between it, as
> a religious-cultural-political Weltanschauung and western societies
> and the values they (we) see as being basic to their (our) self-
> understanding is complex and multi-facetted. My hope is that this
> thread may take up some of these issues.
>
> Francis
Well, I tried to point out a few, above. Let's see what responses
there are.
The basic difference is that Western peoples demand the right to
'sin', as it were. They want that choice to be able to act in a way
that might just be detrimental to themselves and/or others. Whereas
an Islamic government has the duty to discourage behaviours--even
prevent them, if possible--that are seen to be detrimental. And
Muslims, largely, don't understand why Western governments don't seem
to care about the emotional/spiritual well-being of their citizens.
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