Unlike the danish cartoons which were an manifestation of the freedom of speech, it will have very different effects.

Muslim bigots around the muslim world won’t riot. Adverse bigotry is a much lesser evil in their eyes than freedom of speech. Because swiss bigotry does not threaten their oppressive power in the muslim world.

In the eyes of the majority of Muslims in Europe, political Islam will at last become a threat to be confronted, not a perverse fantasy to indulge or an unpleasant fact to deny.

The ban on minarets in Switzerland may be vile bigotry.

But many goods may come out of that wrong.

No non-muslims are allowed to enter the city of Mecca or Medina. No non muslim immigration, only work visas…….which is allowed because without that, no work would get done……they use foreign labor for nearly everything. They ignore honor killings, they have public executions where the victim is paraded before the crowd before having their heads chopped of to the cheering crowd, or the crowd are invited to join in throwing rocks at the person until they are dead.

I could go on forever.

Muslims have got no right at all calling anybody else intolerant. Before they do, they had better open their countries up to any and every religion….and let churches be built all over their countries…..and they better get a heap of non muslims involved in making laws……running their country etc.

After they have done all that……I’m willing to talk to them about intolerance

Robin Shepherd says: Let’s be quite clear here in making a distinction between ordinary Muslims living in Europe and Muslim governments in the Middle East and elsewhere. A shopkeeper or a lawyer in Bradford or Geneva is not responsible for the actions of the Saudi government. Where there is an issue is in the statements and attitudes of Muslim community and religious leaders who should be pressuring Muslim governments to treat non-Muslims in their countries with the same degree of respect that Muslims are accorded in Europe. Perhaps the Muslim Council of Britain is involved in a long-running and vocal campaign to free up Saudi Arabia? Oh, that’s right, the only country they are bothered about in the Middle East is Israel! What does that tell us about their priorities……

- Cancel scholarship student visa program with Saudi Arabia & Egypt & other countries: until they reform their text books, which preach hatred and violence against non-Muslims.

- Restrict religious visas for imams who come from countries that don’t allow reciprocal visits by non-Muslim clergy.

- Restrict the spread of Korans for countries that do not tolerate the fread spread of bibles and evangelisation, for example marocco & turkey & pakistan & etc.

- Restrict the building of mosques for people from countries that do not allow or restrict the building of churches for their indigenous christian peoples (Egypt, Turkey, Marocco, etc)

Reciprocity is a good principle to fight back because it’s rational and honest.

The problem with your statement is that they like to dish it out, but don’t like to be on the receiving end.

The Muslims only riot, uhhhhh, protest in places they are confident will not defend themselves, like Sweden. Or France when Chirac was in power.