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- Minaret ban - Mosque - referendum - Switzerland
Switzerland's shocking ban
Minarets: the Swiss voted against them in their country. It was a vote result that has left a nation soul searching.
Does it mean the Swiss are racist? Does it mean Muslim integration is essentially a non-starter? We examine the reasons behind the no vote and look at what it means for future relations not just in Switzerland but across Europe.
Mark Owen discusses it with:
Radu STOENESCU, Philosopher and staff member of Riposte Laïque
José-Manuel LAMARQUE, Journalist for France Inter and Co-producer of the programme Transeuropéenne
(satellite from Geneva) Soli PARDO, President of the Geneva section of the UDC (Democratic Union of the Centre, Swiss People's Party)
(Satellite from London) Tariq RAMADAN, Professor of Islamic Studies, Saint-Anthony’s College in Oxford
Programme prepared by Bilal Tarabey, Stephanie Paviet and Perrine Desplats
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ido 2009
Hello,
We present our site
Have a look to
www.islam-documents.org
(which is the improvment of the other islam-documents.com, once based in Tunisia).
There is thousands of texts (around 20 000) about the origins of islam, with a critical, humanist, and scientific view (and even ironical). It is now the bigger "sourcebook" on that subject, with often unpublished documents: Muhammad biographies (SIRA), the main books of traditions (HADITH) , muslim chronicles (TABARI...), companions biographies (TABAQAT), quranic verses, quranic commentaries (TAFSIR).7
A new version is now available, improved and corrected: around 3700 pages. We are working for a new version published every year.
All is in french. so sorry. but you need to read it to understand muslim thinking and acts. Now, you won’t tell again: we just don’t know…
Bye. Take care.
PS: just dare to do the same in your own language!!!
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