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Will rising "Christian fundamentalism" in Europe undermine fundamental human rights?
 (Report by the BBC ) Swiss voters have supported a referendum proposal to ban the building of minarets, official results show.
More than 57% of voters and 22 out of 26 cantons - or provinces - voted in favour of the ban. The proposal had been put forward by the Swiss People's Party, (SVP), the largest party in parliament, which says minarets are a sign of Islamisation. The government opposed the ban, saying it would harm Switzerland's image, particularly in the Muslim world.
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John Horvath writes a critical review of S. Hungtington in the german Telepolis online magazine. He writes: The death of Huntington unfortunately does not mean an end to his legacy. Over the Christmas holidays one of the leading theorists of international relations, Samuel P. Huntington, died at age 81. Huntington is perhaps most well known for his work “The Clash of Civilizations”, both as an article (“The Clash of Civilizations?”) published in Foreign Affairs magazine in 1993 and as an expanded version of this hypothesis in his book “The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order” a few years later. Although the author of these works may have died, the thoughts behind them looks set to carry for some time to come – much to the detriment of most people on the planet.
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 Most of the criticism that is directed at multiculturalism in urban Canada is based on an antiquated, conformist notion of cultural integration. When compared to such a notion, multiculturalism is, by virtue of the relative absence of cultural resentment, the more progressive notion of cultural integration for a society to accept. In recent years, however, the criticism directed at multiculturalism has become increasingly progressive and synthetic in nature, and has gained credibility in the process. This discussion will give a brief overview of the aforementioned conformist notion and “declining” support for it amongst most Canadians, and will then go on to illustrate the relative strengths and weaknesses of the current form of cultural integration in Canada (and its urban centres, in particular) – multiculturalism. It will then present and conclude upon the inspiration behind the more progressive and synthetic critiques of multiculturalism. |
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