GENEVA (AP) -- Swiss voters approved a move to ban the construction of minarets in a Sunday vote on a right-wing initiative that labeled the mosque towers as symbols of militant Islam, projections by a widely respected polling institute showed....
Projection: Swiss Vote To Ban New Minarets
By ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS, Associated Press
Sun, 11/29/2009 - 9:18am
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