{"id":367008,"date":"2010-02-26T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4079894.post-3008725430096535791"},"modified":"2010-02-26T12:22:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T17:22:00","slug":"un-eu-condemn-gaddafi-call-for-jihad-against-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/367008","title":{"rendered":"UN, EU condemn Gaddafi call for Jihad against Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[JURIST] UN Under-Secretary-General Sergei Ordzhonikidze on Friday condemned calls by Libyan leader Muamar Gaddafi for a jihad on Switzerland. Gaddafi issued the call in response to Switzerland&#8217;s recent vote to ban the construction of minarets. Ordzhonikidze called the declaration &#8220;inadmissible&#8221;. Also Friday, a spokesperson for EU high representative Catherine Ashton criticized Gaddafi&#8217;s calls. Gaddafi had earlier warned that the ban could make Switzerland an enticing target for al Qaeda.<br \/>\n In December, Hafid Ouardiri, a former spokesman at the Geneva Mosque, filed a complaint at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) challenging the ban on the construction of minarets, a week after a group of Swiss intellectuals called for the ban&#8217;s reversal. Swiss Supreme Court President Lawrence Meyer also said that two suits have been filed in federal court challenging the ban&#8217;s legality. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has condemned the ban as a form of religious discrimination. In 2008, the Swiss government announced that Swiss nationalist parties had gathered enough signatures on their initiative against the construction of minarets to force a national referendum on whether the country&#8217;s constitution should be amended to ban the structures. The initiative was originally sponsored by the anti-immigrant Swiss People&#8217;s Party (SVP).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[JURIST] UN Under-Secretary-General Sergei Ordzhonikidze on Friday condemned calls by Libyan leader Muamar Gaddafi for a jihad on Switzerland. Gaddafi issued the call in response to Switzerland&#8217;s recent vote to ban the construction of minarets. Ordzhonikidze called the declaration &#8220;inadmissible&#8221;. Also Friday, a spokesperson for EU high representative Catherine Ashton criticized Gaddafi&#8217;s calls. Gaddafi had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4174,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}