How the Right Is Wrong: The Bizarre Logic Behind the Swiss Minaret Ban
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"How the Right Is Wrong
The Bizarre Logic Behind the Swiss Minaret Ban
By Yassin Musharbash
Us against them. That is how Europe's right wing sees the Swiss ban on minarets. After all, so goes the logic, Christians in the Muslim world aren't doing any better. But the argument is the height of intellectual laziness. The two groups simply cannot be compared.
Most Christians living in the Middle East were converted by the Crusaders. Weren't they?"
"How the Right Is Wrong
The Bizarre Logic Behind the Swiss Minaret Ban
By Yassin Musharbash
Us against them. That is how Europe's right wing sees the Swiss ban on minarets. After all, so goes the logic, Christians in the Muslim world aren't doing any better. But the argument is the height of intellectual laziness. The two groups simply cannot be compared.
Most Christians living in the Middle East were converted by the Crusaders. Weren't they?"
