For Ayaan Hirsi Ali the Swiss referendum banning the building of minarets needs to be understood in the context of Islam as a political force, rather than simply a religion:
.... Islam is an idea about how society should be organized: the individual's relationship to the state; that the relationship between men and women; rules for the interaction between believers and unbelievers; how to enforce such rules; and why a government under Islam is better than a government founded on other ideas. [Mick Hartley] Read more
