Immigrants Want Cross Removed from Swiss Flag

by Soeren Kern
Hudson NY
October 1, 2011

https://www.legal-project.org/1721/immigrants-want-cross-removed-from-swiss-flag

Excerpt:

An immigrant group based in Bern has called for the emblematic white cross to be removed from the Swiss national flag because as a Christian symbol it "no longer corresponds to today's multicultural Switzerland."

Ivica Petrusic, the vice president of Second@s Plus, a lobbying group that represents mostly Muslim second-generation foreigners in Switzerland (who colloquially are known as secondos) says the group will launch a nationwide campaign in October to ask Swiss citizens to consider adopting a flag that is less offensive to Muslim immigrants.

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