Group Members

• IMRAN MEHMOOD EE083025

• M FAISAL AWAN EE083065

• M SUFTAIN AWAN EE083095

“Islam is always being criticised for hiding in backyards and garages, and being invisible – but when we want to build an Islamic centre, or a mosque, communes will not allow us a reasonable site where it can be seen by the public.”

By Farhad Asraf

• WHY SWITZERLAND BANNED ON MINARETS

(MEENAR) ???

INTRODUCTION

• Banned on November 2009

• Stops Minarets construction

• Reason of ban

4 MOSQUE STILLHAVE MINARETS

ZURICH

GENEVA

 WINTERTHUR 

WANGEN BEI OLTEN

BACKGROUND

ORIGIN

• Started in 2005

• 20 ft minaret was erected in July 2009

• Call to prayer Banned in Switzerland

Support and Protest

Supported Parties

Opposition Parties

SUPPORTING COMMUNITIES

Swiss People’s Party 

 Federal Democratic Union

Egerkinger Committee

Turkish Prime Minister Rece Tayyip

Erdoğan's 1997 speech

• "Mosques are our barracks, domes our helmets, minarets our bayonets, believers our soldiers.

This holy army guards my religion."

Ulrich Schluer,one of the Egerkinger committee’s

states in this respect

• "A minaret has nothing to do with religion: It just symbolises a

place where Islamic law is established”.

MEMBERS OF EGERKINGER COMMITTEE

• Ulrich Schluer,• Christian Waber,• Walter Wobmann,• Jasmin Hutter,• Oskar Freysinger,• Eric Bonjour,• Sylvia Flückiger,• Lukas Reimann &• Natalie Rickli.

Simply Poster Campaign

“Stop “Yes” to the Minerate Ban”

“PROTESTING POSTER”

Opposition Union

Libyan students

Islamic community of Langenthal

Religious organization

Libyan students protest

Libyan students protest ban on swiss minarets in support of moammar gadhafis

RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATION

•  Federation of Swiss Protestant Churches

• Catholic bishops

DANIEL STREICH

Well-known politician

Member of the Swiss political party

First person imposition of ban on mosques minarets

MOVEMENT BY VOTING

• Muslim community case against the swiss government

• Court order to collect 1 Lakh opposition votes

Referendum

• Referendum on 29 November 2009

• Supporter 57.5%

• Protester 51.6%.

After the Refrendum

• The Islamic community of Langenthal has announced their intention of taking their case to the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland 

RESULT OF VOTING

IMPLEMENTATION OF BAN

International reactions On Banned

• Europe Countries Support Banned

• Muslim world Against the Banned

EUROPE COUNTRIES SUPPORT BANNED

•  France

• Germany

• Sweden

 

MUSLIM WORLD AGAINST THE BANNED

•  Libya 

• Turkey

• Pakistan 

• Iran

 

 

 

Reception in European right-wing parties

Conclusion