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Technorati is indexing me again! They had to make a code change to fix the problem with my blog getting stuck in their queue. Kudos to Eric M. and the guys at GetSatisfaction.com where they have "community powered support for Technorati".
Well, they're "sorta, kinda" indexing me anyway. It's on a 24 hour tape delay or something. So I never get picked up by Memeorandum because they pull from Technorati and Technorati has stuff I posted yesterday listed as my latest blog entry. And that's old news to Memeorandum.
Wankers.
Recent headlines from my Posterous Blog:
Monday, 30 November 2009
Switzerland gives Muslims a dose of Saudi-style religious tolerance
By an overwhelming majority the good citizens of Switzerland voted today to ban the construction of new minarets, or Islamic prayer towers. Muslims are called to attend mosque services by chants issued from the tops of these towers.
In news coverage of the vote the inevitable liberal hand-wringing is evident:
In a vote that displayed a widespread anxiety about Islam and undermined the country's reputation for religious tolerance, the Swiss on Sunday overwhelmingly imposed a national ban on the construction of minarets, the prayer towers of mosques, in a referendum drawn up by the far right and opposed by the government.
The referendum, which passed with a clear majority of 57.5 percent of the voters and in 22 of Switzerland's 26 cantons, was a victory for the right. The vote against was 42.5 percent. Because the ban gained a majority of votes and passed in a majority of the cantons, it will be added to the Constitution.
It's always "the right wing" bug-a-boo with these guys, isn't it? Why then did a majority of Swiss women, including radical feminists oppose these blatant symbols of Islamization? Could it be that Swiss women understand real misogyny when they see it?
And of course the specter of "intolerance" has raised its ugly head!
The Swiss government said it would respect the vote and sought to reassure the Muslim population — mostly immigrants from other parts of Europe, like Kosovo and Turkey — that the minaret ban was "not a rejection of the Muslim community, religion or culture."
"Most painful for us is not the minaret ban, but the symbol sent by this vote," said Farhad Afshar, who runs the Coordination of Islamic Organizations in Switzerland. "Muslims do not feel accepted as a religious community."
Really? You don't feel "accepted"? Are there Swiss Mutaween beating Muslims for un-Islamic dress or impure thoughts? No? I didn't think so. Nobody is saying you can't pray in your mosques. They're just not that into hearing some guy bleat about it from atop a giant tower five times a day.
Yet, while we're speaking of "acceptance", Christians in Saudi Arabia are openly persecuted. The penalty for a Christian who dares to set foot in the city of Mecca is death. Construction of a Catholic church, even without a bell tower, is out of the question. Ownership of a Bible is forbidden.
In Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, Christians are mocked. A city which once was home to a thriving Christian population is now 99% Muslim. Those Christians who remain keep to the shadows and bend over backwards not to offend their brothers in the Religion of Peace™.
Muslim intolerance warrants barely a ripple in human rights circles. Amnesty International has already condemned the Swiss vote. But they have no opinion regarding the treatment of Christians in Bethlehem.
The Swiss government is (rightly) concerned about "reprisals". They don't want trouble, and it's painfully obvious that when Muslims don't get their way trouble soon follows. Just ask Theo Van Gogh, or Jyllands-Posten, or Geert Wilders. I'm sure the inevitable Fatwa has already been issued.
The borders of Islam are indeed bloody. But remember this, almost every Swiss citizen owns a gun. Switzerland will not go quietly into the darkness of an Islamic night.
(Via Memeorandum)
Posted at 10:27 by Chris Wysocki
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