{"id":1516,"date":"2009-12-05T06:40:51","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T06:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1516"},"modified":"2009-12-05T06:40:51","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T06:40:51","slug":"swiss-minaret-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1516","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Minaret Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nA 57.5% vote by Swiss citizens, rather close indeed, banned the Swiss Minaret.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nStirring both liberals and extremists, so it seems even in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/religious.leaders.criticise.swiss.minaret.ban\/24811.htm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Christian Today\">Christian Today<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nJahangir has erred by saying &quot;... a clear discrimination towards the members of the Swiss Muslim community&quot;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt is the inability to define the fine line between discriminating towards the members and discriminating towards their belief, that brings disturbance from both the liberals and the extremists, while the conservatives have to suffer.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt is interesting to note as of now:<br \/>\n&quot;<em>Only <strong>four minarets<\/strong> actually exist <strong>in Switzerland<\/strong>, in the cities of<br \/>\n<strong>Geneva<\/strong> and <strong>Frankfurt<\/strong>, while there are an estimated <strong>200 mosques and<br \/>\nprayer rooms<\/strong> throughout the country. Muslims account for about <strong>4.5 per<br \/>\ncent<\/strong> of Switzerland&rsquo;s <strong>7.6 million-large population<\/strong><\/em>. &quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 57.5% vote by Swiss citizens, rather close indeed, banned the Swiss Minaret. Stirring both liberals and extremists, so it seems even in Christian Today. Jahangir has erred by saying &quot;... a clear discrimination towards the members of the Swiss &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1516\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}