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The Minaret Debates Professor Jocelyne Cesari Government E-1182 November 8, 2010
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Page 1: Professor Jocelyne Cesari Government E-1182 November 8, 2010.

The Minaret DebatesProfessor Jocelyne Cesari

Government E-1182November 8, 2010

Page 2: Professor Jocelyne Cesari Government E-1182 November 8, 2010.

Swiss Minaret Ban

TIMELINE:• 2005: A Turkish mosque in northern Switzerland asked for a

permit to build a 6-meter minaret.

• 2006-2008: Swiss People’s Party and Federal Democratic Union attempt to launch initiatives banning the minaret.

• November 29th, 2009: referendum banning the construction of minarets on mosques was backed by a solid majority.

• Switzerland became the first country in Europe to vote to curb the religious practices of Muslims.

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Swiss Minaret Ban

KEY PLAYERS:Egerkinger Committee• Made of the Swiss People’s Party

(SVP) and the Federal Democratic Union

Recep Tayyip Erdogan (PM of Turkey)• Speech in 1997 was misquoted by SVP

and FDU equating minarets to guns, which helped fuel the propaganda

Ulrich Schluer• Member of SVP, helped launch

initiative against minarets

Ergodan

Schluer

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Islam and the Narrative in Europe• Islam in Europe versus Islam of Europe

Mahomet the Prophet or

Fanaticism by Voltaire

Battle of Lepanto, 1571

The Women of Algiers, 1834 by Eugène Delacroix

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Religion in Public Space

• Decline of Religion in the Western public space• With modernity, change in religious

consciousness• Democracy: self-governing, free, equal citizens

which make choices based on rationality, not religious convictions

• Religion sometimes enters the sphere of public debate

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Islam in Public Space

• Minarets reveal the Muslim actor in public space

• Islam: a political and cultural resource for singularization of immigrants

• In Swiss society, minarets symbolize the difficulty of recognizing newly-settled Muslims

• Movement of Islam to the West confronts Muslims with questions about visibility an invisibility (aesthetic, architectural, economic, religious, spatial etc.)

Minaret in Zurich, Switzerland


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