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...then it happened. The ring—quietly purchased months earlier and stashed in a sock drawer in Switzerland during a summer-long internship—was produced from inside a camera case. On one knee after all, Silvestri made his proposal. The answer? “Absolutely...
Europe, in particular, has faced difficulties this year. Caught in the rising tide of anti-Muslim hysteria—a product of a dysfunctional immigration system and a chronic failure to assimilate new immigrants—normally mild-mannered Switzerland passed a measure banning minarets, a law we passionately decried. We feel that this legislation is discriminatory against an embattled minority and only further alienates, and thus radicalizes, European Muslims...
Ellwood said that he heard Calderón speak at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where the leader urged governments and corporations to pool together resources to meet targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions...
...used to call Muslims to prayer, is a perfect example of how Islamophobia extends beyond a vocal minority. Recently, 57 percent of Switzerland’s population voted to ban the construction of future minarets in their country. This response seems excessive because there are currently four minarets in Switzerland and roughly five percent of the population follows Islam. The danger of the Alps’ chocolate-box villages being swept away in favor of numerous variants of the Blue Mosque looks slim. A comment by Roberto Calderoli of Italy’s anti-immigrant Northern League sums up what...
...left-wing members of parliament have gone so far as to label the burqa a “walking coffin.” That most of the women who dress in this way appear to have made a voluntary decision to do so appears to not matter. As in Switzerland, far-right parties have persuaded voters that the veil is unequivocally a symbol of Europe’s Islamification—even though only an estimated 1,900 women wear the full veil in France out of six million Muslims. Polls indicate that 70 percent of the French public supports...