FROM CHURCH BELL TOWER TO MINARET AND BACK AGAIN [Duke Has 5% Muslim Students!!!]

American Spectator ^ | January 15, 2015 | Mark Tooley

[Steelfish]

FROM CHURCH BELL TOWER TO MINARET AND BACK AGAIN Multiculturalism at Duke University blows up in its face.

By Mark Tooley – 1.16.15 Supposedly Duke University thought turning the majestically Gothic bell tower of famous Duke Chapel into an Islamic minaret for every Friday call to prayer, heralded as “interreligious reimagining of a university icon,” would be non-controversial.

But the bow to campus multiculturalist ideology, thanks to nationwide publicity, barely lasted 24 hours. A campus spokesman curtly announced that what had been intended as unifying had become undesirably divisive. So the Muslim student group, which serves the five percent of Duke students said to be from Islamic backgrounds, will continue to worship in the chapel basement and will issue prayer calls outside the chapel instead.

The university also vaguely cited “threats” to explain its quick flip-flop. Some credited outspoken criticism of the bell tower/minaret policy from evangelist Franklin Graham, speaking from the other, more mountainous side of North Carolina. Almost no one offered a reasoned theological explanation for or against amplified Islamic prayer calls from the upper heights of Duke Chapel.

[Steelfish]

By this linked reference below only 1% are Muslims in the US.
So how did Duke get a 5% Muslim population. Send them all back.! These universities were built on the labors of American families.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/02/american-muslim-population_n_6076872.html

[Sasparilla]

Turning Christian buildings into minarets/mosques is an order straight from the Koran.

[zeestephen]

I’ll guess that most of the Muslims at Duke come from the Persian Gulf and pay FULL tuition, room, and board.

And, quite possibly, their parents donate to various things at Duke, like the internationally renowned Duke Medical School.

[KoRn]

Didn’t one of the 9.11 killers attend Duke University?

[workerbee]

The university also vaguely cited “threats” to explain its quick flip-flop.

I doubt the$e were death threat$ or anything remotely violent. Mo$t likely, it wa$ a much $impler form of di$$ati$faction that alumni expre$$ed. $omething that would get fa$t attention from the admini$tration.

[Busko]

Turning education into Islamic trash.

[publius911]

I’ll guess that most of the Muslims at Duke come from the Persian Gulf and pay FULL tuition, room, and board.
And, quite possibly, their parents donate to various things at Duke, like the internationally renowned Duke Medical School.

BINGO!
But it's even worse than that. Read it and weep...

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[Zathras]

When you go to Jerusalem you see evidence of this everywhere.
The Red Crescent needs to be higher and bigger than any other religious symbol.
I felt more welcomed in Cairo than I ever was in the Arab sector of Jerusalem.

The one exception was in Jericho. The Bedouin there made all visitors welcome and the food was fantastic.

[kalee]

threats = cuts to funding by wealthy alumni

[servo1969]

Dear Duke students,

Get your heads on the ground and your @sses in the air because the 7th century is coming to town!