It's neat how when 'secular' countries ban all overt religious symbols, it effects Muslims and Sikhs wearing headgear but not Christians wearing a cross. I'm sure that doesn't factor into the decision-making at all.
This coming from the country that banned minarets, despite none existing in the entire country.
Switzerland is like if Germany, France, and Italy had a baby. 300% shit.
Switzerland's primary export is shitty takes, and its primary import is Nazi gold.
I've been IRL dunking on the old Islamophobic "masks are inherently against Western culture, which is based on people's individual identities represented by their faces, and only terrorists would want to hide faces" bit, because NOW WE'RE ALL FUCKING WEARING MASKS and the sky hasn't fallen.
But Switzerland, the fucking Schweizer Schweine, went ahead and banned face coverings during the pandemic. Unbelievable.
Speaking of gaddafi, can anyone explain the whole thing with Sarkozy? I don't really understand what happened there
Sarkozy allegedly took money from Muammar Gaddafi to finance his Presidential campaign. There's been a rumor for years that French agents killed Gaddafi to prevent him from spilling that and other French secrets if he was ever put on trial. Gaddafi was tortured/maimed by his initial captors, but someone else got to him later and shot him in cold blood.
Another reason the French intervened/killed Gaddafi was Libya wanted to use its considerable oil wealth to challenge the French neocolonial empire in Africa, which controls the financial systems of French ex-colonies. Libyan mercenaries armed/financed by France to overthrow Gaddafi then went on to invade Mali and help topple the government there, allowing French troops to return to the country for the first time since independence.
Sarkozy was also generally corrupt and got caught in a number of less interesting schemes.
