"Israel Isn't Switzerland" (or Austria, Either)

In debating, among others, Danny Seiderman of then-Peace Now, I always here the mantra, "if we were only in Switzerland or Sweden, but we're not, we're in the Middle East".

Well, maybe the Arabs are lucky we are not in Swizterland or Austria:-

Austria: Judge Rules That Yodeling Offends Muslims

And we remember last year in Switzerland:

Swiss voters defied their Government and clerics yesterday and approved a ban on building minarets — reflecting an alarming hostility to a rising Muslim minority.   Fifty-seven per cent of voters in a referendum supported the direct democracy initiative...

So, there.

Or, well, here.


UPDATE


Will this dementia ever end

Or is this but beginning ?

It seems to be in Austria

That yodeling is sinning!



Alas! to native yodelers ~

Some Muslims take offense ~

To people -like the Austrians

The situation's tense.



Who knows how far this thing can go

What next they will demand

And why we freedom loving folks

Must yield to their command?



Like checkered cloths in restaurants -

(Italians like a lot)

Resemble the kefiyya

As worn by Arafat!



Could wigs some women choose to wear ~

(Some ladies like a 'snood' ~)

Be likened to their own hijab

Then banned for being lewd?!



Taboo on Camel cigarettes

That naughty people smoke ~

To us it might seem ludicrous ~

To them it's not a joke!



Or Yodels - tasty little cakes ~

(That really is the name)

Be off the shelves forever now

As fitting in their claim?!



Or bathing suits - so brief today ~

On them they'd put a hex!!

They seem to think that kind of wear

Would surely lead to sex!!!



Each nation has its fav'rite things~

Its culture and its pride ~

Let no one mock it - force a change

That isn't bona fide!!



It's time the West stood up and said

With lines drawn in the sand~

"You integrate or else you leave -

You can't invade our land!!"



"We won't accede to your extremes

To heart take every threat.

WE WANT TO HEAR OUR YODELING

FROM EVERY MINARET!!

- CG
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