tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202630.post966566189617907238..comments2023-06-23T16:13:12.577+03:00Comments on Neeka's Backlog: Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5202630.post-65831671617197991062009-12-14T12:53:03.084+03:002009-12-14T12:53:03.084+03:00Dear Neeka,
Thank you for keeping up the minarets ...Dear Neeka,<br />Thank you for keeping up the minarets issue : as for me, after two weeks of articles, reports, investigations, blogs, debates ad nauseam , I read during the week-end the first article that really strikes home. It takes the angle of our political system, and our Constitution.<br /><br />It explains how already in the 1890ies, our sacred extended referendum system had allowed to target a religious community : the Jewish one. By forbidding the ritual slaughtering of animals. The referendum was accepted. This has been erased from our collective memory : the Swiss direct democracy device is untouchable!<br /><br />The last paragraph is the most interesting, and I’ll translate it for you : <br />“During the latest revision of our federal Constitution in 1999, anti-Jesuit, anti-monastery (read > "Catholic monastic orders"), anti-bishops and anti-Jew articles have been repealed . From this week, thanks to Oscar [Freysinger], we will have to live 100 years or more (until the next total revision of the Constitution), with an anti-Muslim, anti-tolerance, anti-Swiss article.”<br /><br />The author is Henri Carron, a local historian and socialist militant. It was published in Le Peuple Valaisan, Friday December 11th, 2009.<br /><br />As for me, I wrote a related editorial on the website of the International Institute for the Rights of the Child. So here is the link : http://www.childsrights.org/html/site_en/index.php?c=<br /><br />Have a nice week in Moscow!<br />GeniaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com