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The largest Swiss magazine “Migros Magazin” dedicates its last issue to Islam. A politician originally from Kosovo was brought to Ballina as an exemplary and integrated Muslim.
The Swiss consumer magazine “Migros Magazin” dedicates its latest issue to Islam, namely to Muslims living in Switzerland. The cover of the magazine, in accordance with the content, opens with the title: “Ylfete Fanaj is a politician and a Muslim – a file on Islam in our everyday life”.
Fanaj is Albanian from Kosovo and active within the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland. Otherwise, she is also the cantonal delegate for integration for the canton of Nidwalden.
“I am not religious, but a believer” says the Kosovar born and raised under the Swiss Alps, adding that “I learned prayer from my mother”.
Although she does not attend mosques, she is seen to be politically active in this regard: “I don’t feel discriminated against, but one…”, she continues the story about a friend who has covered herself with a headscarf and is now excluded even by the neighbors themselves, not was greeted. This type of reaction from society, for Fanaj, helps the growth of extreme groups, which attract the excluded, Zeri.info reports.
“Perhaps opening the topic with a Muslim Albanian was a good intention of the magazine to say that Muslims are our people, but it is a false image, firstly because active Islam in Switzerland is not represented by Albanians and secondly because it is not it looks like Fanaj”, says a migration activist who does not dare to give his name due to shyness from controversy. Especially Fanaj’s statements that Muslim women “are not oppressed and should not be saved” seem absurd to him. According to the source in question, slowly but surely, with such shows, Albanians will be perceived as Muslims in principle and then as Albanians. Excessive fear?
The magazine in question is printed in more than one and a half million copies and according to WEMF is read by 2,400,000 Swiss. It is distributed by the “Migros” supermarket chain in Switzerland.
source https://telegrafi.com/en/the-iconic-Kosovar-of-Islam-in-Switzerland-photo/