“The point about minarets is that they are an explicitly triumphalist device.” Lifeofthemind@16.

Exactly ! We need to remember Erdoğan’s quoting of Gökalp’s poem:

“The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers” .

The Islamists and their dhimmi tools understand this all too well, hence their outrage at this show of resistence.
I earnestly hope that the Swiss will stick firm on this, and not back down.