"Are Minarets the 'Bayonets of Islam'?
Written by M. A. Khan
Saturday, 05 December 2009 14:56
minaret_posterIn a public gathering in 1998, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, leader of the ruling Islamist party and current Prime Minister of Turkey, recited: 'The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers...'
These words earned him a conviction and minor jail-term for inciting religious hatred.
Taken from Erdogan's recitation or not, the phrase, minarets our bayonets, it appears, has caught the Swiss with alarm amidst its rising Muslim populations."
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