No more Minarets

One Swiss political party is currently encouraging to vote for the prohibition of minarets with this poster.

Mavi Boncuk |
A few newspapers have declined to print this poster, additionally the poster has been banned in a few cities. Switzerland's “stop minaret” movement is backed by the influential ultra-conservative Swiss People's Party, (SVP) which was re-elected in 2007 with its largest ever share of the vote after mounting an anti-foreigner campaign that was denounced by the United Nations as racist.

Ulrich Schüler, an SVP parliamentarian and leading member of the anti-minaret movement, says the edifices are political rather than religious. “They are symbols of a desire for power, of an Islam which wants to establish a legal and social order fundamentally contrary to the liberties guaranteed in our constitution,” he said.