How can the building of minarets be symbols of gender discrimination?
It’s hard to support the women’s right justification when minarets are built on mosques to issue a call to prayer for both men and women who choose to attend and pray. What’s truly discriminating is the banning of building those minarets. Alex Dibranco[6], Editor of change.com, is confused of how this controversy has turned into a debate about symbols of male power. “Excuse me if I doubt that the 4% of Switzerland’s population who practice Islam would be able to force the women of this secular and three-quarters Christian population” he explains. Yes, there might be individual cases in some Islamic countries at which Muslim women are not given their freedom, but there are also thousands of cases where catholic priests were guilty of molesting young boys. So, if minarets were symbols of gender discrimination, shouldn’t Catholic Churches be symbols of child abuse? Unless the Swiss government would ban all religious symbols, this argument doesn’t hold. Supporters of the ban believe that i
