Then Europeans shouldn't have a problem with minarets just how they don't have a problem with church towers - but they do in Switzerland. So, secularism may be a part in some parts, but one or more of the following also seem to be a part of it: xenophobia, Islamophobia, Christianity - and since we know Christianity is a part of European culture for the most part, then it contradicts secularism if we say that it is also a part.