Swiss crackdown on minarets

This is practically an "oddly enough" news item: Swiss voters have banned minarets in a referendum.

Switzerland prouds itself as being a direct democracy, wherein the voters are the ultimate decision makers. In this case, they have voted to ban minarets which appear to be pointing tops on mosques. Though I think they may also be on churches. Not sure.

Here is a good article on the pros and cons.

I agree that it would have been easier to have local bans on buildings of certain heights instead of singling out minarets, but the Swiss are known to be somewhat xenophobic at times.