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Duke University reverses decision, will not allow Muslim call to prayer at its chapel
Charlotte Observer ^ | 01/15/2015 | Adam Bell

Posted on 01/15/2015 1:09:35 PM PST by SeekAndFind

Duke University has reversed itself, and announced Thursday afternoon it will not allow a Muslim call to prayer Friday from its iconic cathedral.

The decision had met with widespread controversy.

“Duke remains committed to fostering an inclusive, tolerant and welcoming campus for all of its students,” said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations. “However, it was clear that what was conceived as an effort to unify was not having the intended effect.”

Members of the Muslim community will now gather on the quadrangle outside the chapel before moving to its regular location for prayers, Duke said.

The move to authorize the call to prayer from the chapel had roiled social media and led to a denunciation from evangelist Franklin Graham.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: duke; dukeuniversity; islam; muslim; muslimcalltoprayer
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To: SeekAndFind

I’m unclear whether the Muslims will actually use the chapel.
A HUGE mistake to allow it.
Once the Muslims use or set foot on a site it’s forever theirs. (they say)


41 posted on 01/15/2015 1:23:46 PM PST by Vinnie
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To: SeekAndFind

When that chapel was dedicated, it was dedicated to the worship of Jesus Christ. That is how it should remain.

How many Christians are allowed to worship in mosques? How many are not allowed to worship Jesus or read the Bible at all in Muslim countries?

The administration at Duke are certainly stupid if they think this did anything but offend Christians.


42 posted on 01/15/2015 1:25:24 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: SeekAndFind; All

It’s hard to know whether to hate the Duke administration more for their cowardice or for their stupidity.


43 posted on 01/15/2015 1:25:30 PM PST by notdownwidems (Washington DC has become the enemy of free people everywhere)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Huh, the pope is a lefty just like Obama,


44 posted on 01/15/2015 1:25:48 PM PST by PROCON (Je suis Charlie Bronson.)
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To: Bitsy

A flood of alumni calls must have caused the school to “reconsider”. You’re right: money talks.

Money wins; liberalism loses. lol


45 posted on 01/15/2015 1:26:12 PM PST by Starboard
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To: SeekAndFind

Looks like John and Ringo in the pews.

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46 posted on 01/15/2015 1:27:14 PM PST by Mears
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To: Kirkwood

I hope so


47 posted on 01/15/2015 1:27:45 PM PST by GeronL
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To: PROCON

“No silly, Rev. Al is a “Christian” donchaknow..”

If there was more “profit” in converting to islam ....Al “Muhammadd” sharpton would dump his church of the holy shakedown and highway robbery faster than suicide bomber goes boom!


48 posted on 01/15/2015 1:31:31 PM PST by Autonomous User (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
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To: Aliska

BFL


49 posted on 01/15/2015 1:32:16 PM PST by rlmorel (The Media's Principles: Conflict must exist. Doesn't exist? Create it. Exists? Exacerbate it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Why can’t Muslimes pray without being reminded?


50 posted on 01/15/2015 1:35:19 PM PST by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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To: Autonomous User
.Al “Muhammadd” sharpton would dump his church of the holy shakedown and highway robbery faster than suicide bomber goes boom!

True that, follow the most money.

Then Imam Sharpton could "convince" Christian churches that they're not being inclusive enough by not allowing muslims in.

51 posted on 01/15/2015 1:36:46 PM PST by PROCON (Je suis Charlie Bronson.)
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To: SeekAndFind
“However, it was clear that what was conceived as an effort to unify was not having the intended effect.”

Said the most out of touch man who has ever breathed air.You cannot make this stuff up.

52 posted on 01/15/2015 1:37:28 PM PST by don-o (He will not share His glory and He will NOT be mocked! Blessed be the name of the Lord forever!)
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To: SeekAndFind

That is an absolutely beautiful - and vacant - buiding. Where is the Cross, or any expressions of worship to our Creator? There are none. An I would bet that they have been systematically removed by the heathens. How utterly sad.


53 posted on 01/15/2015 1:37:30 PM PST by Obadiah (If the RINOs engineer the 2016 Primary for their guy, I will sit out the General for my guy.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Good Call


54 posted on 01/15/2015 1:37:33 PM PST by EXCH54FE (Hurricane 416,Feisty Old Vet !!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Good. We are at war with radical Muslims regardless of what the marxist endoctrinators think.


55 posted on 01/15/2015 1:38:42 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Bitsy

- and there are some very influential alumnus who certainly placed phone calls to their alma mater. The wires were burning. It makes one wonder why people who rise to the level of top leadership in institutions such a Duke, believe they can make what they know to be controversial moves without expecting blow-back. Then I recall some of the smartest people I have known of my considerable years, had the least commonsense. Lets have a high five on that,


56 posted on 01/15/2015 1:39:52 PM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: SeekAndFind

... and fire the idiots behind this stupid freaking decision!


57 posted on 01/15/2015 1:40:04 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Sacajaweau

Expect a fatwa to be pronounced very soon, putting the Duke faculty under perhaps some severe retaliatory sanctions by the Islamic faction. This must not go unpunished, as since the Islamic students enrolled at Duke are once given a broad dispensation to impose their practice of Islam upon the Dhimmi, it shall not be allowed to be revoked.


58 posted on 01/15/2015 1:40:21 PM PST by alloysteel (Je suis Charlie)
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To: SeekAndFind
Quote:
"Members of the Muslim community will now gather on the quadrangle outside the chapel before moving to its regular location for prayers, Duke said. "

Given your image of the quadrangle outside the chapel..this reversal isn't complete, rather it's a provocation since the muhammedans insist on gathering in front of the chapel.

WTH is wrong with these people? There is no reason for them to gather in front of the cathedral prior to moving to their 'regular location' for 'prayers' (ritual condemnations of all non-believers).

The Fatiha (Opening) is the first sura (chapter) of the Qur’an and most common prayer of Islam. A pious Muslim who prays the five requisite daily prayers of Islam will recite the Fatiha seventeen times in the course of those prayers.

From Wafa Sultan’s book “A God Who Hates” pg. 168:

“A Muslim prays five times a day, and on each occasion he recites the Fatiha, the first verse of the Koran, a number of times. This verse describes Christians as “those who have gone astray” and Jews as “those who have incurred Your wrath.” We see from this that Muslims ‘execrate’ Christians and Jews a number of times in the course of a single prayer, which they repeat five times a day.”


59 posted on 01/15/2015 1:41:21 PM PST by wtd
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To: SeekAndFind

Duke is dork.

Period.


60 posted on 01/15/2015 1:41:59 PM PST by Da Coyote
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