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Re:HK media erase their archives amid rising arrests by throwaway292a9 on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @09:17AM (#27688108)
how so? citizens don't want more noisy minarets, the people that want the minarets can stay in the middle east.
Re:HK media erase their archives amid rising arrests by naturalauction on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @09:26AM (#27688231)
>citizens don't want more noisy minarets

The referendum wasn't on noise or the legality of minarets broadcasting sound though, it was on the structures themselves. Churches can still build steeples (or even noisy belltowers). I fail to see why the simple construction of a minaret harms anyone any more than say a steeple of a church of a different denomination. If anything it just seems like legislation to tell Muslims that they are not welcome in Switzerland.

Re:HK media erase their archives amid rising arrests by nojokes on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @09:39AM (#27688365)
If anything it just seems like legislation to tell Muslims that they are not welcome in Switzerland.

I think it is exactly that and this should be their right.

Re:HK media erase their archives amid rising arrests by nojokes on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @09:37AM (#27688352)
Maybe people enjoy church bells but not the calls from the minaret?
Re:HK media erase their archives amid rising arrests by naturalauction on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @10:01AM (#27688633)
But even minarets that don't make noise are banned. I also would not want to live next to a mosque that played loud noises 5-times daily as is done in many countries. But here in the UK most Mosques don't broadcast any noise at all despite having minarets. Like any other building, they have to apply for a permit if they want to do so.
Re:HK media erase their archives amid rising arrests by nojokes on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @09:42AM (#27688392)
I fail to see why the simple construction of a minaret harms anyone any more than say a steeple of a church of a different denomination.

Minarets do not build themselves. There would be very possibly some money and influence involved from countries that do not share Swiss people values.

Re:HK media erase their archives amid rising arrests by naturalauction on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @10:11AM (#27688760)
>There would be very possibly some money and influence involved from countries that do not share Swiss people values.

But then why not address that by banning foreign funding of construction of religious buildings? If Swiss Muslims want to build a minaret on their mosque I personally don't see the harm. But it's clear that others disagree.

Re:HK media erase their archives amid rising arrests by nojokes on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @07:27PM (#27694731)
I do not know what is really going on here but I can think of something that is similar. Imagine that Swiss communists want to raise a 10m high statue of Stalin. From one point of view it is just a statue but from another point of view it is a huge symbol that in many ways advocates against what Swiss people value.
Re:HK media erase their archives amid rising arrests by dang on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @06:46PM (#27694395)
Please don't post unsubstantive/flamebait comments to HN. Especially please don't cross into slurs. This one was borderline but it certainly fits the format that we don't want here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: if you could please stop creating accounts like this and definitely stop creating accounts to break the site rules with, we'd be grateful.