New anti-minaret poster

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Re: New anti-minaret poster

Post by JimC » Fri Oct 16, 2009 8:21 am

andrewclunn wrote:I'm torn. I'm all for a little xenophobia, but I also like minarets...
Minarets in their natural habitat are fine, but I diskike the spread of introduced species...

Messes up the ecosystem...

(let me know when the Saudi authorities allow the erection of a little methodist chapel somewhere in their religious ecosustem...) :roll:
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Re: New anti-minaret poster

Post by Clinton Huxley » Fri Oct 16, 2009 8:30 am

Preposterous, you can't ban a shape.....

What next? Let's send dodecahedrons back where they came from, coming over 'ere, stealing our geometry!
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Re: New anti-minaret poster

Post by Sisifo » Fri Oct 16, 2009 9:55 am

Clinton Huxley wrote:Preposterous, you can't ban a shape.....
Yes you can. Any building must be approved so that its style "fits" the neighborhood, and its height must be specific so that the skyline isn't affected.

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Re: New anti-minaret poster

Post by Clinton Huxley » Fri Oct 16, 2009 10:01 am

Sisifo wrote:
Clinton Huxley wrote:Preposterous, you can't ban a shape.....
Yes you can. Any building must be approved so that its style "fits" the neighborhood, and its height must be specific so that the skyline isn't affected.
That's not quite the same thing as banning a specific type of tower though.
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