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Swiss to Vote On Banning Minarets

July 18, 2008 - 7:05am

In what is being portrayed as evidence of surging Islamophobia in the home of direct democracy, Swiss conservatives have qualified a ballot initiative that would add a ban on minarets to the country's constitution. Switzerland, a country of 7 million people, has more than 300,000 Muslims but only three minarets.