{"id":40226,"date":"2011-10-09T15:45:06","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T15:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/immigrant-groups-in-switzerland-push-to-abolish-the-swiss-flag-offended-by-the-cross\/"},"modified":"2011-10-09T15:45:06","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T15:45:06","slug":"immigrant-groups-in-switzerland-push-to-abolish-the-swiss-flag-offended-by-the-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarian\/immigrant-groups-in-switzerland-push-to-abolish-the-swiss-flag-offended-by-the-cross.php","title":{"rendered":"Immigrant groups in Switzerland push to abolish the Swiss flag: Offended by the Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Swiss libertarians say Hölle keine! (Hell No!)<\/strong><\/p>

Ivica Petrusic is vice president of Secondos Plus, one of the largest pro-immigrant organization in Switzerland. Petrusic is being quoted in the Swiss press calling for the replacement of the Swiss flag with a flag more representative of diversity. <\/p>

From The Local<\/a>, Switzerland News in English, Sept. 20, \"SVP to immigrants: Don’t mess with the Swiss flag\"<\/p>

He said that the old tricolour “represented a progressive Switzerland, open to the world,” as opposed to the current banner which “no longer corresponds with today’s multicultural Switzerland” because the country “has great religious and cultural diversity.” <\/p><\/blockquote>

<\/a>On rightist lawmaker, herself an immigrant from Slovokia expressed outrage at the proposal. <\/p>

Yvette Estermann, an SVP lawmaker, said the statement made by Petrusic shows “disrespect” towards Switzerland. She wondered “if the next thing will be to abolish Christian churches” in the country.<\/p>

“It is unacceptable that immigrants give orders to their host country on what it has to do,” she told The Local.<\/p><\/blockquote>

The Swiss Peoples' Party (SVP) is the right-libertarian party in Switzerland headed by Oskar Freysinger. The Party akin to the UK Independence Party, is pro-tax cuts, pro-Swiss sovereignty, and for shutting down immigration from countries whose values conflict with Swiss tolerance.<\/p>

Swiss libertarians SVP.ch<\/a><\/em><\/p>

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