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At Duke, many criticize decision not to broadcast Muslim prayer call
LA Times ^ | 1/16/2015 | David Zucchino

Posted on 01/17/2015 11:01:56 AM PST by yongin

s they have almost every Friday for two years, Muslim students gathered at Duke University’s chapel for weekly prayers at midday Friday..

But a university plan to sound the prayer call from the Duke University Chapel’s 210-foot bell tower for the first time was hastily called off Thursday in the face of anti-Islamic tirades on social media and what a school official described as credible concerns about security.

Instead, the call to prayer, or adhan, was sounded in Arabic and English on Friday from a small portable speaker set up on the chapel steps. Many among the hundreds of students who gathered condemned Duke’s about-face and demanded more religious tolerance.

The private university, founded by Methodists, intended the broadcast as a gesture of the school’s commitment to religious diversity. Instead, it exposed a religious fault line.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: calltoprayer; duke; dukereversal
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To: VideoDoctor

Had a feeling the usual suspects in the MSM would throw a tantrum over this reversal.


21 posted on 01/17/2015 11:39:36 AM PST by rbg81
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To: yongin


22 posted on 01/17/2015 11:40:12 AM PST by Brother Cracker (You are more likely to find krugerrands in a Cracker Jack box than 22 ammo at Wal-Mart)
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To: yongin

Duke wouldn’t exist without its Christian founders. It used to uphold American values and the judeo- Christian faith tradition. Letting peaceable foreigners in - ok. However, No college needs or benefits from letting in islamicists/Moslems —whose “religion” is replete with exhortations to invade, attack, conquor, subjugate, or kill Christians, Jews, and other innocent peoples. They’re the only visible group dedicated to destroying us. Send them back to Krapistan. That’s being “humanitarian” about it. Arm yourself well to defend yourself and family and neighbors until we get a loyal American president who will do what needs doing


23 posted on 01/17/2015 11:41:26 AM PST by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..)
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To: yongin

“Many” think mosque should play Christmas music in December to honor Christians... and show a love of diversity.

Maybe David Zucchino of the
LA Times can write a piece on it... and interview people showing Muslims who object are xenophobic... That would be a true ‘man bites dog’ story.


24 posted on 01/17/2015 11:43:36 AM PST by GOPJ (NYT "Free Speech" - ISIS can post severed heads to twitter but we can't post Mohammed cartoons.)
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To: yongin
Many among the hundreds of students who gathered

I'm going to guess that not a single one of these "students who gathered" have a real major that requires lots of study i.e. engineering, architecture, computer science or pre-med, or works several jobs to put themselves through school, both of which gives them oodles of time to fill up their empty lives with outrage and protesting.

I could be wrong, but I doubt it.

25 posted on 01/17/2015 11:47:05 AM PST by Lizavetta
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To: yongin

Can’t have a Nativity scene on campus though.


26 posted on 01/17/2015 11:48:54 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Offend a Christian and he is obliged to pray for you. Offend a Muslim and he is obliged to kill you.)
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To: AbnSarge

But obama says the Muslim call to “prayer” is the most beautiful sound o. Earth. Get with the damned program!!!


27 posted on 01/17/2015 11:51:41 AM PST by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..)
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To: yongin
At Duke, many criticize decision not to broadcast Muslim prayer call

Many = Militant Koranimals.
This recent Freeper thread says it all.

The Whole Story

Still think this is a Citizen groundswell?

Alahu Akbar!

28 posted on 01/17/2015 12:09:01 PM PST by publius911 (Formerly Publius6961)
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To: yongin

Michael Medved supported the Muslims.


29 posted on 01/17/2015 12:25:47 PM PST by ansel12 (Civilization, Crusade against the Mohammedan Death Cult.)
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To: ansel12

Michael Medved is an GOP-E shill.


30 posted on 01/17/2015 12:29:11 PM PST by yongin (I'd rather be a part of the prophetic minority than the mushy majority.)
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To: yongin

Figures this horse crap is being pushed by a rag like the l.a. Times.


31 posted on 01/17/2015 12:35:18 PM PST by Joe Boucher (The F.B.I. Is a division of holders Justice Dept. (Nuff said))
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To: yongin
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32 posted on 01/17/2015 1:05:32 PM PST by MtnMan101
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To: yongin
Let's see how many [sic] in favor of "diversity" would allow the Angelus to be announced without raising a stink…
33 posted on 01/17/2015 1:12:51 PM PST by mikrofon (Weekend BUMP)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“It sounds like the retarded, honky, rich kids need their Huggies changed.”

To be fair, we’ve been subjected to generations of ‘white people are bad’ and Western civilization is crap’ propaganda. The Bolsheviks have taken over our education system and their nefarious plans proceed apace.


34 posted on 01/17/2015 2:19:16 PM PST by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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To: AbnSarge
One of the most grating, claws-on-the-chalkboard noises know to man or beast.

Yes, five times a day, from a mosque near my office on the Marmara University campus in Istanbul. Sounded like someone in agony. Well, I decided I could pray The Lord's Prayer when the call to prayer came. It made a good reminder.

35 posted on 01/17/2015 2:36:30 PM PST by JoeFromSidney (Book RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY, available from Amazon.)
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To: SandRat

As another poster on FR put it, why not broadcast the executed Asian woman’s screams from Saudi Arabia ?


36 posted on 01/17/2015 2:42:52 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: Lizavetta

They have 700 Muslilms attending the school. So, if they rounded up all the Muslims, they could claim “many attended” — and the claim would be meaningless.


37 posted on 01/17/2015 2:44:10 PM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: yongin

....”the call to prayer, or adhan, was sounded in Arabic and English on Friday from a small portable speaker set up on the chapel steps”.......

That call just established Islams claims to Duke University for Islam...this is how they think...and make no mistake this is a victory for Jihad in our country.

Worse...it evidences that there is no pushback to the dark side overtaking this country now.


38 posted on 01/17/2015 2:58:40 PM PST by caww
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To: SandRat
It's catch 22...if they don't allow Islamic call to prayer than Christian too must be stopped....this is what we get for multiculturalism....which willl alow all or silence all...there is no compromise.
39 posted on 01/17/2015 3:00:40 PM PST by caww
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To: faithhopecharity

Every place Islam sets itself up it will always bring , every time, chaos and division...it is what it is.

We are entering a dark time for this country as none know how to stop this invasion....and in part it’s because this nation has abandoned the God of the Bible....and continues to do so.

The only thing which will stop this is by this nation returning to the God of the Bible and that’s just not likely to happen now that there are so many foreigners in this country fast and rapidly taking over.


40 posted on 01/17/2015 3:04:21 PM PST by caww
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