Morand said recently at his cavernous warehouse, near pallets piled high with shoe boxes as pop music played on an old stereo system. The new minaret, nearly 20 feet high and illuminated at night, is clearly visible from the main highway connecting Lausanne and Geneva. It was erected by the chain's owner, Guillaume Morand, who fashioned it out of plastic and wood and attached it to a chimney. Instead, Bussigny's minaret is attached to the warehouse of a shoe store called Pomp It Up, which is part of a Swiss chain. And it's not the work of a local Muslim outraged by Switzerland's controversial vote to ban the structures, which often are used to launch the call to prayer.
A week or so later, in an apparent act of defiance, a new minaret unexpectedly sprang up here.īut the new minaret is not attached to a mosque this small town near Geneva doesn't even have one. In November, Switzerland voted to ban the construction of new minarets, the towerlike structures that adorn mosques. I thought about the issue again more recently when reading this discussion by Dennis Mangan (I found his site via a link from Seth's blog) of the fascinating story of a businessman who built a minaret next to his shoe warehouse in Bussigny, Switzerland.
Bennett notwithstanding), but the correlation is surely weak if there at all, and it doesn't stop all four of the above positions from making internal sense. On aggregate, I suspect there's a slight correlation between being a liberal or Democrat and supporting gambling (it's a traditional morals issue, after all, William F. And I recall reading passionate arguments from various of these perspectives. Some commentators were iberal and pro-gambling (people should be allowed to gamble if they want, without fundamentalist bible thumpers telling them what to do), some were conservative and pro-gambling (people should be allowed to gamble if they want, without do-gooder liberals telling them what to do), and similarly on the other side. I remember thinking about this several years ago regarding positions on legalized gambling (casinos, state lotteries, and the like). The logic of ideology is not fully determined by what goes into it. To put it another way, one person might strongly believe in A & B, while somebody else equally strongly feels that A & not-B go together. Different people have all sorts of different ideologies thus, there is external incoherence. An ideology typically makes complete sense to the person holding the ideology-that is, it is internally coherent.Ģ. One of the most fascinating things about political ideology is the following juxtaposition:ġ.
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