I'm not sure that's a downside, unless you prefer hearing prayer 5 times a day. I fled Bosnia during the war, but I visit it occasionally and each time it appears more religiously extremist than the last. All other countries should take a look at what has happened there and consider the importance of implementing cultural integration in addition to economic integration when accepting large incoming migrant populations.
When you hire for a company you want your dream team to have a diverse background of ideas and experiences but that doesn't mean you let them work on the goals and products they worked on at their previous employer with whatever processes they want.
Edit: to be clear, I'm not sure the specific minaret law is a downside from my experience, but that is not to say that your overall point on populist reforms is invalid. I was just focusing on the specific law.
That's awesome! I'm just learning rust and I'm really enjoying it, though it was more challenging getting into the right mindset after working on GCed languages for most of the last 4-5 years. Certainly wrestled with the ownership system for a while but it's all making a lot more sense now, and I'd much rather have the compiler telling me about these problems than incorrectly dereferencing memory in C code.