Ulrich Schlüer (born 17 October 1944) is a right wing

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, member of the Swiss People's Party of the canton of Zürich.

Biography

Schlüer studied History and German language at the

University of Zürich The University of Zürich (UZH, german: Universität Zürich) is a public research university located in the city of Zürich, Switzerland. It is the largest university in Switzerland, with its 28,000 enrolled students. It was founded in 1833 f ...

, receiving a PhD in 1978. He married in 1970 and is the father of four children. Schlüer acted as secretary to Swiss right-wing politician

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, and in 1979 founded the nationalist-conservative '' Schweizerzeit'' newspaper. He was the mayor of

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1994-1998, and member of the

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1995 to 2007, when he lost his mandate in the

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. However, upon the election of

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into the

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, Schlüer inherited Maurer's seat in the parliament and thus regained his mandate on 2 March 2009 for the remainder of the 2008 to 2011 legislature. He was not reelected in the 2011 federal election. In 2007, Schlüer's parliamentary immunity was suspended due to a lawsuit pressed by a journalist whom Schlüer had attacked in a ''Schweizerzeit'' article. In September 2007, Schlüer figured in an interview in ''

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'', in which he commented on UN special rapporteur on racism

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, who had expressed concern over the "racist and xenophobic dynamic" in the campaign pursued by Schlüer's party that :"He's from Senegal where they have a lot of problems of their own which need to be solved. I don't know why he comes here instead of getting on with that

From 2007 to 2009, Schlüer spearheaded a Minaret controversy in Switzerland, federal initiative for the ban of minarets. He stated that "Islam is not only a religion. It’s an ideology aiming to create a different legal system. That’s sharia," and that "a minaret is different. It’s got nothing to do with religion. It’s a symbol of political power." He once sought to establish a Swiss branch of the German anti-Islam activist

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's Pax Europa organisation, and in 2007 he was scheduled to hold a speech at a "Stop the Islamisation of Europe" rally in Cologne. He has been considered a part of the

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movement.

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*http://www.schluer.ch/ *http://www.schweizerzeit.ch Members of the National Council (Switzerland) Mayors of places in Switzerland 1944 births Counter-jihad activists Critics of Islam Living people Anti-Islam sentiment in Switzerland {{Switzerland-mayor-stub