Some clarification please, renysol.

>>All islamic countries ban christian churches. And if you dared to hum a chrismas song while walking on the footpath in Saudi Arabia you would go to jail, or worse.<<

If I read this correctly - and please let me know if I am wrong - you would like us to emulate this behaviour here in Australia.

Ban the building of mosques. Ban the muezzin. Ban the minaret. Ban anyone humming "in a middle-eastern manner".

Become, in fact, exactly as intolerant as the overseas examples you provide.

Would that be correct?

I don't know, dodgy topic. I consider myself center of the road inmy beliefs with variations either way depending on the topic. Really, I've no issue with middle eastern buildings being erected - and quite obviously they won't be everywhere, but they're beautiful - but I do have an issue with the opposite of intolerance especially when it's comes to allowing things like Sharia getting a some air time in a democratic based society.

Have your religion, and build your buildings, but if you want me to respect you lose some of the extreme right wing thoughts of your own. We ALL know they're there.

Well none of our business, it is Switzerland not Australia. Their call, not every country has to be the same.

I would really appreciate it if there was a place free from religion. that particular right does not appear to exist except in communism. Oh well I am a red under the bed I s'pose.

Religion is something that should be allowed to be observed privately but I have no real issue banning public grandiose building in the name of any religion. No reason in my opinion. Mirvac is the architectural god of today so no roman arches, minerets, spires, steeples need apply. Just pre-formed concrete lego allowed. Afterall about all that passes under council, state, environment al laws in Australia.

This is another article showing that the pathetic left does not really accept democracy along with Islam itself. Though the population vote against something in masses they blame right right wing xenophobia. One could easily argue that the global warming scam is largely supported by left wing xenophobia. That is actually closer to the mark. Maybe the Swiss are just a little bit smarter than the apathetic British who has allowed Muslims to soil Britain and make it a no go zone in some areas. These areas are expanding quicker than many will admit.

btw

I am so over everytime some group do not get their own way it is racist, xenophobic, discrimination blah, blah.

This is about architecture, a building design. If this type of architecture is so important to someone's religion why go somewhere where there are so few? Most immigrants accept that things will be different than their original homelands and they accept it more often than not. Once you pander to the ones that demand replica then you start to attract peolpe that will not accept difference.

So those that demand a changed landscape, a changed country, changed architecture, are the xenophobic intolerent bigots. They could have stayed or migrated elsewhere if it did not provide necessary steeple, minerets or what ever other lump of conrete that turns them on.

I have no comment on what other countries do; that's their business.

But, the same thing could not happen here because our elected dictators will not allow us Citizen Initiated Referenda.

CIR are not to be feared. They represent real democracy, and those not in favour of a proposal can vote NO if they wish to.