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Uh oh.....at Duke? :shock: Think this will cause a stir?
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What say ye?


Before it unraveled, a plan to use Duke University's chapel tower in a call to prayer for the school's Muslim community was meant to promote religious unity and pluralism.

But after a flurry of objections arrived by phone and email — along with reported security concerns — Duke canceled a plan to have members of the Muslim Students Association read a moderately amplified call to prayer from the tower for about three minutes each Friday. The private university in Durham, northwest of Raleigh, was founded by Methodists and Quakers and its divinity school has historically been connected to the United Methodist Church. The school's insignia features the Christian cross and a Latin motto translated as "learning and faith.".....snip~

Duke Cancels Muslim Call to Prayer; Cites Opposition, Safety - ABC News
 
Uh oh.....at Duke? :shock: Think this will cause a stir?
stirthepot.gif
What say ye?


Before it unraveled, a plan to use Duke University's chapel tower in a call to prayer for the school's Muslim community was meant to promote religious unity and pluralism.

But after a flurry of objections arrived by phone and email — along with reported security concerns — Duke canceled a plan to have members of the Muslim Students Association read a moderately amplified call to prayer from the tower for about three minutes each Friday. The private university in Durham, northwest of Raleigh, was founded by Methodists and Quakers and its divinity school has historically been connected to the United Methodist Church. The school's insignia features the Christian cross and a Latin motto translated as "learning and faith.".....snip~

Duke Cancels Muslim Call to Prayer; Cites Opposition, Safety - ABC News


I think this is motivated strictly on security concerns... and must not be hyped as anti-Semitism.
 
Uh oh.....at Duke? :shock: Think this will cause a stir?
stirthepot.gif
What say ye?


Before it unraveled, a plan to use Duke University's chapel tower in a call to prayer for the school's Muslim community was meant to promote religious unity and pluralism.

But after a flurry of objections arrived by phone and email — along with reported security concerns — Duke canceled a plan to have members of the Muslim Students Association read a moderately amplified call to prayer from the tower for about three minutes each Friday. The private university in Durham, northwest of Raleigh, was founded by Methodists and Quakers and its divinity school has historically been connected to the United Methodist Church. The school's insignia features the Christian cross and a Latin motto translated as "learning and faith.".....snip~

Duke Cancels Muslim Call to Prayer; Cites Opposition, Safety - ABC News

Great call on their part to cancel. Next thing you know, it's like being in Iraq. Loud speakers everywhere with the "allah" cult words spewing out of the speakers.

Good job Duke. You did in fact make the right call. Safety and security prevailed.
 
Good. Come to our country and assimilate. Practice your religion in your home if it is at some odds with what school you are going to.
 
I think this is motivated strictly on security concerns... and must not be hyped as anti-Semitism.

The School Administration didn't say if they had received any threats. Or at least at that time. I wonder when the security became a concern.
 
I think this is motivated strictly on security concerns... and must not be hyped as anti-Semitism.
You'd really Have to "hype" it to call it "anti-semitism" since that term applies strictly to Prejudice against/hatred for Jews, Not Arabs and certainly not Muslims in general.
 
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Uh oh.....at Duke? :shock: Think this will cause a stir?
stirthepot.gif
What say ye?


Before it unraveled, a plan to use Duke University's chapel tower in a call to prayer for the school's Muslim community was meant to promote religious unity and pluralism.

But after a flurry of objections arrived by phone and email — along with reported security concerns — Duke canceled a plan to have members of the Muslim Students Association read a moderately amplified call to prayer from the tower for about three minutes each Friday. The private university in Durham, northwest of Raleigh, was founded by Methodists and Quakers and its divinity school has historically been connected to the United Methodist Church. The school's insignia features the Christian cross and a Latin motto translated as "learning and faith.".....snip~

Duke Cancels Muslim Call to Prayer; Cites Opposition, Safety - ABC News

I thought they just decided not to use the chapel tower, not ban the call altogether.
 
I thought they just decided not to use the chapel tower, not ban the call altogether.

Mornin Luther. :2wave: That's the way ABC is reporting it with the AP. Same with many others.

As their not.....nor have they not had a call to prayer. As it was always held in the Basement of the Chapel.


Instead, Muslims will gather for their call to prayer in a grassy area near the 210-foot gothic tower before heading into a room in the chapel for their weekly prayer service. Michael Schoenfeld, Duke's vice president for public affairs and government relations, said it would be up to the students if they want to use some sort of amplification.

The original plan drew the ire of evangelist Franklin Graham, who urged Duke alumni to withhold support because of violence against Christians he attributed to Muslims. Schoenfeld said emails and calls came from alumni and others in the community......snip~

Duke cancels Muslim call to prayer; cites opposition, safety - AP News 1/16/2015 4:43 AM
 
Good move by Duke. Why it was even contemplated is beyond me.

Allowing one religion such a premiment status (were calls announcing the start of the Jewish sabbath also going to be broadcast? What about Hindu calls- providing there are such things) is clearly not uhmm..... "inclusive". Rather, it is divisive. The fact that moslems were granted not only the ability to make such amplified calls, but were going to be allowed to do it from a Christian chapel is doubly insulting.

I do think the Muslims deserve credit for being assertive though.
 
Uh oh.....at Duke? :shock: Think this will cause a stir?
stirthepot.gif
What say ye?


Before it unraveled, a plan to use Duke University's chapel tower in a call to prayer for the school's Muslim community was meant to promote religious unity and pluralism.

But after a flurry of objections arrived by phone and email — along with reported security concerns — Duke canceled a plan to have members of the Muslim Students Association read a moderately amplified call to prayer from the tower for about three minutes each Friday. The private university in Durham, northwest of Raleigh, was founded by Methodists and Quakers and its divinity school has historically been connected to the United Methodist Church. The school's insignia features the Christian cross and a Latin motto translated as "learning and faith.".....snip~

Duke Cancels Muslim Call to Prayer; Cites Opposition, Safety - ABC News

Probably a wise move to remove it on Duke's part....The PR damage alone would cost donors to the school.
 
Probably a wise move to remove it on Duke's part....The PR damage alone would cost donors to the school.

Heya JMac. :2wave: I didn't have any problem with it being in the Chapel Basement.....Just sayin.
 
I'm surprise the atheists would allow this, you know separation and all that jazz. :shrug:
 
I'm surprise the atheists would allow this, you know separation and all that jazz. :shrug:

Private U. Sep of Church and St does not come into play.
 
Private U. Sep of Church and St does not come into play.

I don't know, I've been told if they take even one federal dollar.....
 
all those on the right suddenly applauding an abdication in favor of political conformity

such a consistently principled bunch

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Probably a wise move to remove it on Duke's part....The PR damage alone would cost donors to the school.

The Muslim Students Association is a Muslim Brotherhood front group--the first one set up here, in fact. Its members can take their anti-American shariah and go straight to hell. I'm glad Duke pulled the plug on their effort to spread supremacist propaganda under the guise of legitimate religion. The First Amendment no more guarantees a right to promote shariah, a system of oppressive rules that is repugnant to all our laws, freedoms, and traditions, just because some Muslims believe in it as a matter of faith, than it has ever guaranteed a right to engage in polygamy, just because some Mormons have believed in it as a matter of faith.

Here is a very informative site that explains more about the MSA and other MB front groups:

A short course 16: Mapping the Muslim Brotherhood in America | Shariah: the Threat to America
 
I'm surprise the atheists would allow this, you know separation and all that jazz. :shrug:

Heya American. :2wave: This guy was alright with it. Wasn't a citizen either.



Still, Ios Kotaogiannis, a 39-year-old doctoral candidate in computer science who is from Greece, said he was glad officials reversed their decision.

"I'm a secular person. I'm not against religion. I think religion is good. But it has its place — inside the chapel," he said.....snip~
 
all those on the right suddenly applauding an abdication in favor of political conformity

such a consistently principled bunch

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Funny how you're all for it, I'm just pointing out the usually hypocrisy. When it comes to Muslims they just can't seem to do anything wrong, and Christians can't seem to do anything right.
 
Uh oh.....at Duke? :shock: Think this will cause a stir?
stirthepot.gif
What say ye?


Before it unraveled, a plan to use Duke University's chapel tower in a call to prayer for the school's Muslim community was meant to promote religious unity and pluralism.

But after a flurry of objections arrived by phone and email — along with reported security concerns — Duke canceled a plan to have members of the Muslim Students Association read a moderately amplified call to prayer from the tower for about three minutes each Friday. The private university in Durham, northwest of Raleigh, was founded by Methodists and Quakers and its divinity school has historically been connected to the United Methodist Church. The school's insignia features the Christian cross and a Latin motto translated as "learning and faith.".....snip~

Duke Cancels Muslim Call to Prayer; Cites Opposition, Safety - ABC News

And some say that Islamic religion isn't getting preferential treatment. Had it gone through, do you think that the Lord's prayer would have gotten equal time? Or any other religions?

Great call on their part to cancel. Next thing you know, it's like being in Iraq. Loud speakers everywhere with the "allah" cult words spewing out of the speakers.

Good job Duke. You did in fact make the right call. Safety and security prevailed.

True, but rather telling that they even entertained the idea. No preferential treatment my ass.

Good move by Duke. Why it was even contemplated is beyond me.

Allowing one religion such a premiment status (were calls announcing the start of the Jewish sabbath also going to be broadcast? What about Hindu calls- providing there are such things) is clearly not uhmm..... "inclusive". Rather, it is divisive. The fact that moslems were granted not only the ability to make such amplified calls, but were going to be allowed to do it from a Christian chapel is doubly insulting.

I do think the Muslims deserve credit for being assertive though.

Agreed. Why they even entertained the idea of this preferential treatment is beyond me. Surely in their student and faculty bodies Islamic observers are in the minority.

Probably a wise move to remove it on Duke's part....The PR damage alone would cost donors to the school.

I think that's where the outrage came from, and pressured Duke to reconsider.
I'm surprise the atheists would allow this, you know separation and all that jazz. :shrug:

Only when excessively politically correct, I'm thinking.
 
Funny how you're all for it, I'm just pointing out the usually hypocrisy. When it comes to Muslims they just can't seem to do anything wrong,
share with us what would have been wrong for the student muslims at duke university to be summoned to prayer on fridays by appeal from the university bell tower

and Christians can't seem to do anything right.
except pretend that they are being discriminated against by allowing another faith access to the bell tower used to summons Christian students to prayer on sundays

for a gang who so strongly and loudly object to anything PC, y'all sure got your panties in a wad over this matter, now celebrating when PC prevails
 
Personally, I think nobody wins when religion infiltrates any other daily activity where multiple faiths and those of no faith also participate. Would be nice if we could go back to a time when religious observances were held strictly in religious institutions and facilities.
 
Good job Duke. You did in fact make the right call. Safety and security prevailed.

Nonsense.

I would hazard to guess that 98% of the backlash against the original plan came from folks who are too stupid and poor to ever attend Duke.

I doubt very much that the folks the policy actually effected (you know, the students paying to attend the private school) would have presented any danger to other students.

Once again, the American Idiocracy prevails!
 
Nonsense.

I would hazard to guess that 98% of the backlash against the original plan came from folks who are too stupid and poor to ever attend Duke.

I doubt very much that the folks the policy actually effected (you know, the students paying to attend the private school) would have presented any danger to other students.

Once again, the American Idiocracy prevails!

Saying someone is too stupid to get into Duke, isn't saying much. It's one of the hardest schools to get into in this country. Just FYI
 
Perhaps maybe those who feel strongly about Islam should think about starting their own universities. That way, they can issue the call to prayer 5 times a day on their own campus without concern or repercussion.
 
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