Muslim prayers in school debated

UNION-TRIBUNE ^ | 07/02/07 | Helen Gao

[luckystarmom]

Maybe the kids know how to pray all by themselves.

My kids have been praying all by themselves since they were little.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Are not Christians required to witness their faith to others?

[California Patriot]

Just goes to show, in the real world, you can’t treat all religions with perfect equality. We will get to the point where we must chose between our Establishment’s dogma (the radical, ACLU version of the Bill of Rights) and our culture. I choose our culture.

[Old_Mil]

If Muslims are allowed to pray in public school, why can't Christians and Jews do the same? You might want to ask the ACLU secular jihadists about the double standard.

That's because droids don't rip your arms out of their sockets whwn they loose. Wookies have been known to do that.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Upon further review, it appears that Muslims are required to pray dawn, at the midday, about the middle of the afternoon, just after sunset, and at night fall about two hours after sunset. Only two of those times conflict with the school schedule. Let the kids pray at lunch time and afternoon recess. If the schedule need be later to lengthen said recess, at least all students would share the extra time evenly. If Abdul wants to pray while Andy plays, so be it.

[Prokopton]

Are not Christians required to witness their faith to others?

By their actions you will know them...

[onedoug]

...public school....

There's your answer right there.

[Post Toasties]

But does that indulgence include praying for the demise of those who profess other beliefs?

[Post Toasties]

I don’t see you proposing any worthwhile argument for recesses to be lengthened to cater to particular religious beliefs.

[AlaskaErik]

If the diaperheads want their little jihadists to pray during the day then let them do what other Americans who want the same do...send them to private schools.

[Beckwith]

I’m tired of the Muslims with all their crap.

It's just starting. The more of them there are -- the more their demands will increase.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Well, I’m playing Devil’s advocate here (hopefully not literally), IF it is actually decided that reasonable accommodations legally MUST be made for religious purposes. I think the time I and other children, including Protestants, Catholics and Jews, were given to attend the Chapel on Wheels in the early 1960’s was reasonable, but it’s now banned. So I see no reason this special time is given for Muslims. The fact that other kids gets the time out to do what they please is beside the point.

So, again, IF the high court determines that this mandate for daily prayer be accommodated, then it would be better to tell the kids you've got the lunchtime break and a lengthened afternoon recess to get ‘er done.

[AppyPappy]

If they allowed religious freedom, they wouldn’t have this problem.

[VOA]

bump for pulicity

[MEGoody]

If other faiths cannot take time out of class to pray, then Muslims should not be permitted to do so either. No one is forcing them to use public schools.

[MEGoody]

Carver's supporters noted that Christianity and other religions, unlike Islam, do not require their followers to pray at specific times that fall within school hours, when children by law must be in school.

Christians are commanded to 'pray without ceasing', yet Christian kids still manage to attend classes.

[Dov in Houston]

Let the Muslims pray

In Mecca but not in the United States of America