New anti-minaret poster

[Chinaski]

The Swiss right wing party SVP (Schweizer Volks-Partei) has begun a campaign to outlaw the building of minarets in Switzerland. While I would not like to see an increase of Muslim presence here either, I can't help but feel that the motives underlying the right wing here are not so much out of respect for human rights rather than populistic xenophobia. Anyway, here's the poster:


What do you think?

[Pappa]

What do you think?

I agree with you. It's only a tower. It does seem xenophobic to me.

Fight their insane beliefs if they encroach on your reality, not their preferred architecture.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

We have a minaret here in St. Louis.

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

[The Dawktor]

We have a minaret here in St. Louis.

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

It's nice that they have a dovecote on the top Gawd!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

We have a minaret here in St. Louis.

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

It's nice that they have a dovecote on the top Gawd!

Um, that is where the bird-brained ones hang out, so I guess it would qualify.

[ficklefiend]

Oooooh... it's a bit black and red, isn't it? Never positive colours for a political message.

[JimC]

It proably is right wing xenophobia, and a touch racist as well, but I would object to the visual pollution it represents anyway. And dont they call out loudly from it at various times of the day?

They are trying to mark their new territory. Fuck 'em all...

[Chinaski]

They'd be muted minarets, and only be attached to the mosques, like church spires to a church. Is it just to allow Christians their spires but not let Muslims have their minarets?

I'd rather have neither, but dammit.

[charlou]

What do you think?

It's a very ironic imposition of one group's ideology: the oppression of the ideology and practices of another group.

I would not, however, seek to oppress the first groups right to express their view about the second group's ideology and practices.

[Trolldor]

Group A: Let's build a useless fucking tower
Group B: We don't want a useless fucking tower, let's make a whole bunch of useless fucking posters and put them everywhere to show why we don't like useless fucking things!

Ironing is delicious

[charlou]

Oooooh... it's a bit black and red, isn't it? Never positive colours for a political message.

Avatars, on the other hand ... Nice shirt, Ficklefiend.

[Chinaski]

Well, red is like, the Swiss colour, y'know? AND BLACK IS THE SCARY MINARET AND BURQA GODZILLA MONSTER.

[charlou]

Is it just to allow Christians their spires but not let Muslims have their minarets?

I'd rather have neither

Same. Let's start a poster campaign

[Psi Wavefunction]

The Swiss right wing party SVP (Schweizer Volks-Partei) has begun a campaign to outlaw the building of minarets in Switzerland. While I would not like to see an increase of Muslim presence here either, I can't help but feel that the motives underlying the right wing here are not so much out of respect for human rights rather than populistic xenophobia. Anyway, here's the poster:


What do you think?

And this differs from posters about <group that never gets talked about> during <era seldom discussed on teh internets> HOW exactly?

[Drewish]

I'm torn. I'm all for a little xenophobia, but I also like minarets...