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Momo

1 December 2009 - 6:56pm

First off, a general point... Islam is not now, nor has it ever been a race. The Swiss decision to ban minarets can be regarded as bigoted, prejudiced or idiotic. But it cannot be regarded as racist.

Matt, I’ve never seen the point why one should trouble with distinctions between bigotry, prejudice, racism and so on. They belong in the same box. Besides, it’s not unimportant that the majority of Muslims in Europe are immigrants or people “with migration background”, usually with darker hair and skin than the rest of us, and not accepted as belonging to our countries. If this referendum had targeted a “native” minority, the result would have been very much different, I guess.