Surprising? I think not
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8386456.stm
"In Switzerland the soul-searching has begun following Sunday's nationwide referendum in which voters surprisingly backed a plan to ban the construction of minarets."
What is surprising about this? Switzerland isn't exactly the bastion of progress. For God's sake, their women were some of the last in the West to get suffrage, in '71, and it was already into the 90's before the last two conservative cantons gave in.
"In Switzerland the soul-searching has begun following Sunday's nationwide referendum in which voters surprisingly backed a plan to ban the construction of minarets."
What is surprising about this? Switzerland isn't exactly the bastion of progress. For God's sake, their women were some of the last in the West to get suffrage, in '71, and it was already into the 90's before the last two conservative cantons gave in.