ah yes the religous tolerance and freedom of religion that westeners often boast about on perfect display again:
Austria's Haider says to ban mosque-building
Agencies
Published: August 27, 2007, 18:13
Vienna: Austria's Joerge Haider said on Monday that he plans to change building laws to prevent mosques being erected in his home province of Carinthia.
"We don't want a clash of cultures and we don't want institutions which are alien to our culture being erected in Western Europe," said Haider, the Carinthia governor.
"Muslims have of course the right to practise their religion, but I oppose erecting mosques and minarets as centres to advertise the power of Islam," he said.
Haider said he would ask parliament to amend the building code that would require towns to consider "religious and cultural tradition" when dealing with construction requests.
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A lawmaker from the Austrian Muslims' Initiative called Haider's move "racist" and "ridiculous". "We don't know of any mosque plans there. His move is meaningless, populist, racist and anti-Islamic," Omar Al Rawi said.
http://gulfnews.com/world/Austria/10149533.html
this is like the 3rd incident of westeners trying to ban mosques in just one week..... yes the religous tolerance of the west!
but we Muslims should be smart, since they claim the mosques look abit different well then we should build mosques that look like the other buildings in the city and province........ but offcourse even if we do that they will come up with yet another excuse of trying to ban Islam.....
westeners can really no longer boast about religous freedom being availible in the west and not the Muslim world, unless you are a liar that is, every week we now see cases of mosques not being allowed to be built, banned, hijabs not allowed etc etc...... just because a Muslim can be a Muslim in the west doesnt mean theres absaloute freedom of religion, since a Christian can be a Christian in the Muslim world as well......so that supposed higher ground you guys had is gone now (and you never had it)
but since westeners on this forum cant ever really give a strong response back they will bring up Saudia lol as they always do, which shows how un-educated they are since how does ONE Muslim country represent 1.6 billion Muslims? so incase any of you westerners thought of bringing Saudia up to justify this think of something better since there is not one single Muslim nation that outlaws churches or the Bible........