This is fucking disturbed.

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"Campaigners for the ban argued that minarets are symbols of religious and political power that will pave the way for the eventual introduction of Sharia law in Switzerland. About 5 percent of the country's 7.8 million people are Muslim."

This contention reminds me of typical arguments against same-sex marriage: it stops procreation. As though a) there aren't enough unwanted kids on this planet already; b) if by some miracle from heaven all us straights were wiped out, there wouldn't be both men and women to procreate, either by artificial insemination or the old-fashioned way if necessary. How the hell is 5 percent of the Swiss population going to subjugate a majority that it never had any sway over in the first place? That shit doesn't happen in educated countries.

Then again, banning minarets on such grounds isn't supposed to happen in educated countries either, so maybe the right-wing psychos have a point. Save us, Our Lady Ayn Rand!

I might be antireligious, but as long as people are willing to embrace this world's ass-backwardness, they have to be willing to suck up religious diversity. Otherwise, stop immigration to your country altogether and tell all outsiders to fuck off. Then halt all international trade, ban money, and revert to a subsistence economy, even if that means you have to hunt rabbits with pointy sticks.

But capitalists are nothing if not hypocritical.

I will savour the economic backlash from this. Switzerland is a banking nation, after all, and a lot of Islamic countries have a lot of oil - and thus a lot of money. Some won't care about this, but some will. The people, I'm certain, will; their governments can respond accordingly.

Switzerland is also supposed to be a neutral nation. But neutrality is a steaming pile of horseshit in any case, so I guess this is no fatal blow.

So there's a quick little rant. This isn't necessarily the best forum, but it's not like I give a shit. I just had to write stuff down somewhere. I'd like to get a poem or something out of this, but I'm too boggled at the moment.