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Normandale's 'meditation room' is home to a single faith
http://www.startribune.com/featuredColumns/12551256.html ^ | 12/16/07 | Katherine Kersten

Posted on 12/17/2007 7:14:10 AM PST by HD1200

Last week, I visited a Muslim place of worship. A schedule for Islam's five daily prayers was posted at the entrance, near a sign requesting that shoes be removed. Inside, a barrier divided men's and women's prayer space, an arrow informed worshippers of the direction of Mecca, and literature urged women to cover their faces. Sound like a mosque? The place I'm describing is the "meditation room" at Normandale Community College, a 9,200-student public institution in Bloomington. A row of chest-high barriers splits the room into sex-segregated sections. In the smaller, enclosed area for women sits a pile of shawls and head-coverings. Literature titled "Hijaab [covering] and Modesty" was prominently placed there, instructing women on proper Islamic behavior.

They should cover their faces and stay at home, it said, and their speech should not "be such that it is heard."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Minnesota; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aclumia; mosqueandstate; muslimstakingover; separatebutequal; taxdollarsatwork
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To: HD1200
Confrontations also erupted in the sex-segregated meditation room, according to Lunaas. "Muslim students just took it over. They made people who were not of the Muslim religion feel very uncomfortable, especially if they were female."

Our fear is going to kill us. We are spineless when it comes to these people. How could we let this happen? How? Forget it..it's in the Bible...everything is right on plan.

2 posted on 12/17/2007 7:17:35 AM PST by Hildy (You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep cause reality is finally better than your dreams)
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To: HD1200

What state? What city? Private school? Public school? What’s the school’s full name?

(Not every reader in FR is a local in every community in America.)


3 posted on 12/17/2007 7:20:14 AM PST by samtheman
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To: HD1200

This school as a community college receives funds paid by the taxpayer. They should revoke the funds.


4 posted on 12/17/2007 7:20:27 AM PST by donnab (saving liberal brains...one moron at a time.)
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To: Hildy

Want to bet if a female Normandale Christian or agnostic confronted someone over her right to use the room and a fight or worse ensued; the female would be characterized as intolerant of another culture or that she went to the “meditation room” looking to cause a fight.


5 posted on 12/17/2007 7:21:09 AM PST by HD1200
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To: HD1200

I believe if Christians had taken over 60 minutes and the local news would have hidden cameras in there is a heart beat....as it is I hope a confrontation will take place ..on camera so the Muzzies won’t be able to lie their way out of it...


6 posted on 12/17/2007 7:22:02 AM PST by conservativehusker (GO BIG RED!!!!)
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To: HD1200

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1940621/posts


7 posted on 12/17/2007 7:23:36 AM PST by 109ACS (Humpty Dumpty was pushed!)
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To: samtheman

Normandale is a 9,300 student member of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system, located in Minneapolis, MN

Normandale Community College is an affirmative action, equal opportunity educator and employer.

address: 9700 France Avenue South, Bloomington, MN 55431
phone: (952) 487-8200 toll free: (866) 880-8740


8 posted on 12/17/2007 7:24:40 AM PST by HD1200
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To: samtheman

This is in the south metro of Mpls, I believe.


9 posted on 12/17/2007 7:24:44 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (ENERGY CRISIS made in Washington D. C.)
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To: HD1200
October 3, 2008 is the Vigil of St. Francis and a First Friday.

Perhaps a Catholic group on campus can hold a non-sex-segregated Mass that Friday in the meditation room, followed by a traditional Franciscan blessing of pets - like dogs and pot-bellied pigs.

10 posted on 12/17/2007 7:25:32 AM PST by wideawake (Why is it that so many self-proclaimed "Constitutionalists" know so little about the Constitution?)
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To: samtheman

Normandale Community College, Bloomington MN.


11 posted on 12/17/2007 7:26:15 AM PST by cryptical ("The future is already here; it's just not evenly distributed." - William Gibson)
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To: HD1200

This is EXACTLY what happened with AIDS and homosexuals. People told us daily that we can’t be afraid or discriminate and what now there is NO ONE in the CLOSET and we bend over backwards for their perverted life-style!! SAME is with the anti-Christian anti_Jew Muslims!! Pretty soon we will all have to take lessons in ISLAM...AT WORK!!


12 posted on 12/17/2007 7:26:39 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: HD1200

What’s wrong with coed meditation?

Why the hostility to women?

Some of the most accomplised practitioners of yoga are women!


13 posted on 12/17/2007 7:28:21 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: Hildy

coming to a college near you...


14 posted on 12/17/2007 7:29:28 AM PST by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL.)
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To: HD1200

ahh, Representative Ellison voters.....


15 posted on 12/17/2007 7:32:50 AM PST by bpjam (Harry Reid doesn't even have 32% of my approval)
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To: HD1200

Where the hell are the Feminazis when you need them?

What happened to all these religion hating lefties when its muslims taking over a public school campus?


16 posted on 12/17/2007 7:33:52 AM PST by bpjam (Harry Reid doesn't even have 32% of my approval)
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To: cryptical

So it’s a public school, establishing a religion. Where are the atheist pukes who make a career hounding nativity scenes off the face of the earth?


17 posted on 12/17/2007 7:33:55 AM PST by samtheman
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

98th and France in Bloomington, to be exact...


18 posted on 12/17/2007 7:35:02 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Merry Christmas!)
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To: HD1200

The public High School in Columbia Missouri has a Prayer Room for Muslim Students also. Amazing what they can get by with that would never be tolerated for a Christian group.


19 posted on 12/17/2007 7:36:32 AM PST by Clintons Are White Trash (Lynn Stewart, Helen Thomas , Maureen Dowd - The Axis of Ugly)
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To: HD1200; All
AGHHHHHH !

MY CHRISTIAN DAUGHTER HAS BEEN GOING TO NORMANDALE !!

20 posted on 12/17/2007 7:37:20 AM PST by LiveFreeOrDie2001 (Check out ---->> www.eaglebrookchurch.com <<----)
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