Monday, November 30 2009

 

The minaret of a Geneva mosque in the neighbourhood of Le Petit-Saconnex . Photo: Getty Images

Swiss risk Muslim backlash after voting to ban minarets

THE SPECTRE of religious and racial intolerance was raised over Switzerland last night as a majority of voters backed a deeply controversial proposal to ban the building of minarets at mosques in a referendum which instilled fear among Muslims and shocked the Swiss government.

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Church must show some basic decency

THE publication of the report of the Murphy Commission ought to have triggered an instant and simultaneous resignation of the surviving bishops and monsignors cited in the report rather than a display of stubborn obduracy in the case of some and silence, evasion and cunning in the case of others.

Connell must come clean without any 'reservation'

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin and Cardinal Desmond Connell have been in direct personal contact since last Thursday when the explosive Commission Report into the Archdiocese of Dublin's cover-ups of clerical child sex abuse ignited the biggest challenge ever to the moral authority and credibility of both the Vatican and the Irish hierarchy.

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