Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Swiss ban on minarets was a vote for tolerance and inclusion
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The recent Swiss referendum that bans construction of minarets has caused controversy across the world. There are two ways to interpret the vote. First, as a rejection of political Islam, not a rejection of Muslims. In this sense it was a vote for tolerance and inclusion, which political Islam rejects. Second, the vote was a revelation of the big gap between how the Swiss people and the Swiss elite judge political Islam.
Read the article at Christian Science Monitor.
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