As the Minarets Are Banned, it is Time for Swiss Muslims to Prove that They Are Europeans Too

With the referendum to ban minarets passing with 57% of the population in favor of it, the whole of the West has gone crazy.

"What are Muslims going to think?", "How can we do this to Muslims? Muslims are not going to be happy about this." "We are Europeans and this is against European values."

What about the responsibility of Muslims as citizens of Switzerland? Why is everyone so bent on making Muslims happy? How about Muslims compromise for a change?

These Muslims say they are citizens of Switzerland and so should be given equal rights (which they are). Now, because they are citizens of Switzerland, technically, they are Europeans and as Europeans they should respect the decision of the majority of the people in that country.

This is the time for Muslims in Switzerland to prove that they are Swiss and have European values, that they have assimilated. Muslims have a chance here to prove it loud and clear that they are moderate Muslims who have come to Europe to become Europeans and not to make Europe Muslim. Muslims need to shut up and accept this democratic decision. Muslims have to prove that their loyalty is to Europe and European idea of democracy, rather than to the long dead and awaited Islamic caliphate and Shariah law.

My eyes are on Muslims. Let's see how they react to this.

There isn't a single democracy in the Muslim world. Many Muslims leave Muslim/Islamic countries and move to Europe and America because there are freedoms there that are never afforded them in their home countries. However, some of them, instead of being thankful, want to change the countries that they move to into the countries that they came from. We will see, depending on what the majority of the Muslims in Switzerland does, whether the Muslim population there is "Swiss" or whether it still belongs to whatever nation the majority of them came from.

The reaction of Muslims is important because the Swiss have done nothing that is against their constitution. They still allow Muslims to worship freely in their mosques, all they are going to be missing are minarets--minarets have no religious significance according to the Quran or Hadiths. Now if the Muslims in Switzerland are actually assimilated Swiss, then my guess is that they won't have any problem accepting what is constitutional and legal according to the country they have adopted as their home.