Swiss liberals planning new referendum to lift minaret ban

Club Helvetique, a group of over 20 Swiss intellectuals, will draw up an action plan to overturn the ban, which has drawn widespread criticism abroad and prompted hundreds of people to take to the streets this weekend in Zurich, Basel and Berne…

Two complaints questioning the legality of ban had already been handed to Switzerland’s Federal Court, Sonntag said.

Libya leader Gaddafi said the ban had done a great favour to al Qaeda militants, who would use it to attract recruits in a holy war against Europe, news agency SDA reported.