Just outside of Luzern is a community called Emmenbruecke. It makes the headines every so often when it denies Swiss citizenship to Turkish or Eastern Bloc people who have sometimes been here for two or even three generations. A lot of Swiss are horified at this discrimination. At one time there was a move about to eliminate the rights of communities to be the ones that grant citizenship because of some of their actions.
So today in the newspaper, I wasn't a bit surprised to read that a Christmas musical play was taking place at a local school where most of the fourth graders are either catholic or protestant. What did blow me away was the interviews thay had with the two kids who are cast as Mary and Joseph. Each child is a Muslim! They are proud to have a leading part in the play, even though they readily admit that Christmas means nothing more than a holiday to them.
How about that for intergration? Wonder if a Christian could ever play Mohammad?
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