RENOWNED Swiss politician Daniel Streich, who rose to fame for his campaign against minarets of mosques, has embraced Islam.
A
member of the Swiss People’s Party (SVP) and a well-known
politician, Daniel Streich was the first man who had launched a drive
for imposition of ban on mosques minarets, and to lock the mosques in
Switzerland. The proclamation of Streich’s conversion to Islam has
created furore in Swiss politics, besides causing a tremor for those
who supported ban on construction of mosques minarets.
Streich
propagated his anti-Islamic movement far and wide in the country,
sowed seeds of indignation and scorn for Islam among the people, and
paved way for public opinion against pulpits and minarets of mosques.
But
now Streich has become a soldier of Islam. His anti-Islam thoughts
finally brought him so close to this religion that he embraced Islam.
He is ashamed of his doings now and desires to construct the most
beautiful mosque of Europe in Switzerland.
The
most interesting thing in this regard is that at present there are
four mosques in Switzerland and Streich wants to lay the foundation
for the fifth one. He wishes to seek absolution of his sin of
proliferating venom against Islam. He is thinking of a movement
contrary to his previous one to promote religious tolerance and
peaceful cooperative living, in spite of the fact that ban on mosques
minarets has gained a legal status.
This
is the greatest quality of Islam that it comes up with even greater
vigour, when it is faced with confrontation.
Abdul
Majeed Aldai, the president of OPI, an NGO, working for the welfare
of Muslims, says that Europeans have a great desire to know about
Islam. Some of them want to know about the relationship between Islam
and terrorism; same was the case with Streich.
During
his confrontation, Streich studied the Holy Quran and started
understanding Islam.
He wished to be hard to Islam, but the
outcome was otherwise. Aldai further says.
Recently the question
of ban on minarets was put to voting in Switzerland, wherein the
Swiss nationals gave the issue a legal status.
Source:Nation