The Washington Post website reports that the European Court of Human Rights today (July 8, 2011) dismissed a challenge by Muslim groups to Switzerland's minaret building ban.
A panel of seven judges with the Strasbourg, France-based court ruled that the people filing the lawsuits could not claim to be victims.
Swiss voters approved a constitutional ban on minarets in 2009 that barred any more construction of the iconic mosque towers.
Switzerland's four standing minarets -- which were not affected by the ban -- do not traditionally broadcast the call to prayer outside their own buildings.
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