This year several Muslim families from French-speaking Switzerland opened their homes during Ramadan so interested people could better understand the ninth month of the Muslim lunar calendar, the fast and prayers. swissinfo.ch visited Nezha Drissi near Lausanne to share in her family’s preparations for Iftar, the time for breaking the fast.
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Some religions are more welcome than others
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For while some non-native religions have proved easy bedfellows for the Swiss, others – notably Islam – have found it more difficult to be accepted. So much so in the case of Islam that Swiss Muslims currently face the prospect of seeing the construction of minarets put to a nationwide vote. The rightwing campaign to…
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