Cairo slams Swiss minaret vote (Straits Times)

CAIRO - MUSLIMS in Cairo - once dubbed the City of a Thousand Minarets - have slammed a referendum in Switzerland banning new minarets as intolerant, but few have called for a boycott of Swiss goods. At the prestigious Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam\'s main seat of learning, authorities were dismayed after more than 57 percent of Swiss voters on Sunday approved the right-wing motion to ban minarets on ...