UN deplores Gaddafi call for anti-Swiss 'jihad'

From BBC News:
A top UN official has condemned as "inadmissible" Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's call for a jihad, or holy war, against Switzerland. "Such declarations on the part of the head of state are inadmissible in international relations," said Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the UN chief in Geneva.

Col Gaddafi criticised a Swiss vote against the building of minarets and urged Muslims to boycott the country. Libya and Switzerland are embroiled in a long-running diplomatic row. The dispute dates back to 2008, when one of Mr Gaddafi's sons was arrested in Geneva, accused of assaulting two servants.

A Swiss foreign ministry spokesman declined to comment on the jihad call.

The Libyan leader made his comments while speaking at a meeting in Benghazi to mark the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad. "Let us wage jihad against Switzerland, Zionism and foreign aggression," he said. "Any Muslim in any part of the world who works with Switzerland is an apostate, is against Muhammad, God and the Koran."

Mr Ordzhonikidze, director-general of the UN mission in Geneva, said the UN's security in Switzerland was very professional and well-prepared for any incident. He was responding to questions from journalists about Mr Gaddafi's "jihad" call. In a referendum last November, 57.5% of Swiss voters approved a constitutional ban on the building of minarets. An appeal against the ban has been submitted to the European Court of Human Rights.

Tit-for-tat quarrel
Earlier this month, Libya stopped issuing visas to citizens from many European nations - those in the Schengen border-free travel zone. That drew condemnation from the European Commission. Libya's move came after Switzerland allegedly blacklisted 188 high-ranking Libyans, denying them entry permits. The Swiss ban is said to include Mr Gaddafi and his family. The row began after the arrest of Mr Gaddafi's son Hannibal and his wife, Aline Skaf, in Geneva in July 2008. They were accused of assaulting two servants while staying at a luxury hotel in the Swiss city, though the charges were later dropped. Libya retaliated by cancelling oil supplies, withdrawing billions of dollars from Swiss banks, refusing visas to Swiss citizens and recalling some of its diplomats.

In the same month that the Gaddafis were arrested, Libyan authorities detained two Swiss businessmen, in what analysts believe was a retaliatory move. One was finally allowed to leave the country earlier this week but the second was transferred to jail, where he faces a four-month term on immigration offences.
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I'm sorry, ageing rockstar Mr. Gadaffi, but you simply cannot make proclamations like that and expect to get away with it.

The Swiss voted DEMOCRATICALLY to ban the building of minarets. They are symbols of Islamic power and supremacism, and the Swiss people voted not to have them in THEIR COUNTRY. I hate to go back to this oft-brought up point, but tell me, when was the last time Christians were allowed to build a church in a Muslim country? Muslims aren't banned from building mosques in Switzerland (yet), but they are banned from building minarets.

When the appeal goes to the European Court of Human Rights, then they MUST base their decision on the human rights of the indigenous people living in Switzerland. They voted - as is allowed in their constitution - and they chose to ban minarets. If the fucking Muslims don't like that, then build your symbols of Islamic power and supremacy SOMEWHERE ELSE. I suggest you take your butt-ugly mosques back to the Islamic countries you came from.

At some point in the near future, the indigenous populations of western countries are going to rise up and demand that the creeping Islamisation of our countries is stopped. WE also have human rights. My human rights are infringed every time one of you pinheads claims victim status for some perceived slight against your long-dead, warmongering, violent 'prophet'. You follow a thoroughbred cult of death, intent on forcing the conversion or subjugation of the entire world. You have to be stopped. If you think you have the right to believe in your religion, then you have to accept that we the right to NOT believe in your religion.

While we're at it, Gadaffi, shove a minaret up your arse.