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X-mo-1979 said:Nice one.
They should work twice as well if we just glued our evil spy Poppy-quarters to them.
X-mo-1979 said:Nice one.
X-mo-1979 said:Many of out older church's had bell towers. Now we see many church buildings which look more like office buildings, as "bell's to summon" are pretty obsolete. So what purpose does the minaret's actually serve? The call to prayer is not done by the Imam in the tower. Infact in Switzerland the call to prayer is not done at all,due to city bylaws on noise.
NL_engineer said:What city would that be? From my time in Zurich, the church bells chimed on the hour every hour. Longer at prayer times.
Retired AF Guy said:When I was in Italy it was ever 15 minutes. One bell for quarter after, two for the half-hour, three for the 45 minute mark and the hour depending on what hour it was (e.g) 12 midnight X 12 bells).
Swiss businessman builds minaret in protest
(AFP) – 23 hours ago
BUSSIGNY, Switzerland — A Swiss businessman appalled by his fellow countrymen's decision to ban minarets has extended a chimney above his company building into a minaret in protest.
"It was scandalous that the Swiss voted for the ban. Now we have the support of all the far-right parties across Europe. This is shameful," Guillaume Morand, who owns a chain of shoe stores, told AFP.
The businessman, who is not a Muslim, explained that the he had constructed the mock minaret at his building near western Switzerland's city of Lausanne in protest, and at the same time, to "send a message of peace."
More than 57 percent of voters upset opinion polls and defied their government by approving the right wing motion to ban minarets -- the turrets or towers on mosques from which Muslims are called to prayer.
The outcome of the referendum brought by members of the hard-right Swiss People's Party (SVP) and other right wing groups was also hailed by anti-immigrant party leaders elsewhere in Europe.
Morand blamed other political parties in Switzerland for not having campaigned against the far-right motion ahead of the referendum.
Flawed Design said:When a vote goes the way someone likes it's social justice.
When it doesn't go how they like they cry foul.
Maybe the swiss are just trying to avoid this.
Michael O'Leary said:
muskrat89 said:Here's something going on where I live:
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/12/04/20091204phx-ntemple1205.html
the 48th regulator said:Google Map Street View of the Church.
Kat Stevens said:Why is it so hard to understand that the Swiss want Swiss cities to look Swiss, not Iranian, Jordanian, or Saudi Arabian? Christian churches have been an integral part of life in Switzerland since the year dot. They are as much a part of the landscape as the Alps, clock shops and chocolate factories.