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Ah, here's the paragraph that answers it: "The four minarets that currently exist in Switzerland are not affected by the vote, nor are the approximately 400,000 Muslims living in Switzerland restricted in any way from practicing their faith in their places of worship. That being said, this formalistic approach to the scope of the initiative fails to reflect the symbolic power of the message sent by a majority of Swiss voters this Sunday."
Again, it's subject to the whim and desires of the Swiss population, and the article does mention another instance in which a new Catholic diocese in the making was subject and in-waiting of an approval via the Swedish government. I bring this up (not only because it was in the article) but because this is what I think is more at heart to what I'd be voting. I don't think it's intolerant, but for a lack of how to properly state it, it's more of a formality of how and to what means the congregation is given birth; a "classification" of sorts.
It seems politics and fear abroad of some doings elsewhere brought this forth, or at least that's what I understand of why this vote has been called for (the sixth paragraph in the article mentions it... so does the headline on CNN.com on Dec. 2nd).
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