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'Mosque' Uncovered on College Campus
worldnetdaily.com ^ | December 17, 2007 | staff

Posted on 12/17/2007 6:14:15 PM PST by kellynla

A Minnesota community college has "a Muslim place of worship" featuring "a schedule for Islam's five daily prayers," according to a local newspaper columnist who visited the campus.

Tax-supported Normandale Community College in Bloomington, Minn., also has a "sign requesting that shoes be removed" and a barrier that divides men's and women's "prayer spaces," writes Katherine Kersten of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.

College officials denied it was anything more than a "meditation" room available for "all faiths."

The description of the facility, however, led one faculty member to tell Kersten the room is "unprecedented" and "goes beyond religious toleration."

"For all practical purposes, this meditation room is essentially a Muslim prayer room," said Chuck Chalberg of Normandale's history faculty.

WND has reported on "accommodations" for Muslims in public institutions, such as schools and airports, and the outrage triggered by the expenditure of public funds on a religion-specific facility.

At Normandale, Kersten reported, an "arrow informed worshippers of the direction of Mecca, and literature urged women to cover their faces."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: 2007; 200712; bloomington; bringbacon; bringham; campus; college; hatredofwomen; islam; meditateinbikinis; minnesota; mosque; muslim; muslims; prayerroom; whereisaclu; whereisnow
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To: kellynla

This just highlights the anti Christian bigotry rampant in liberals these days. Islamic facilities in public places funded by tax dollars meets with dead silence. Imagine a Christian chapel in place of this mess and the outcry from the left would be deafening.

Christian hatred is what is actually meant by leftists advocating seperating (eliminating) the church from the state.


21 posted on 12/17/2007 6:41:48 PM PST by Bulldawg Fan (Victory is the last thing Murtha and his fellow Defeatists want.)
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To: Rb ver. 2.0

“Isn’t that gender discrimination on a public campus?”

Coed dorms, rooms, and showers but by golly this ‘meditation’ room is safe.


22 posted on 12/17/2007 6:42:51 PM PST by driftdiver
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To: Bulldawg Fan

Congress shall pass NO law, However Muslims can do as they please ? America is lost


23 posted on 12/17/2007 6:44:51 PM PST by Dov in Houston (The word Amnesty invokes a passion in me. Illegal immigrants are criminals. Supporters Aid & Abet)
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To: JustaDumbBlonde

“If the facility is truly for all faiths, they would allow a Christmas service this Sunday, right?”
maybe Tuesday next week...but not Sunday. LOL


24 posted on 12/17/2007 6:45:52 PM PST by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: kellynla

University of Illinois has a mosque on campus. Wonder how Islamofascism Awarenss Week went over there.


25 posted on 12/17/2007 6:48:19 PM PST by G8 Diplomat (Creatures are divided into 6 kingdoms: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Monera, Protista, & Saudi Arabia)
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To: Tigercap; kellynla

Sounds like a great spot for a special pre-Christmas caroling event. Ideally with male and female students sitting on top of the “chest high wall”, straddling it, and arranging themselves in an alternating male-female line. Afterwards, on the solstice, turn it over to the Wiccans, who will dismantle the wall, make a bonfire out of the remnants (using the nearby piles of pamphlets as kindling, of course), and dance around it.


26 posted on 12/17/2007 6:48:53 PM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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To: Dov in Houston
Congress shall pass NO law, However Muslims can do as they please ? America is lost



Saudi America....
27 posted on 12/17/2007 6:53:31 PM PST by G8 Diplomat (Creatures are divided into 6 kingdoms: Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Monera, Protista, & Saudi Arabia)
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To: Rumplemeyer

Remember when the ACLU was liberal but not partisan organization. It is a shame they squandered their reputation built up over decades.


28 posted on 12/17/2007 7:02:01 PM PST by JLS
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To: GovernmentShrinker
And why, oh why oh why do the feminists of this nation stand silent on the rights of women under islam? They scream and howl that the next Pope should be a woman, but stay silent on the fact that under islam a woman should be EVEN seen in public alone...

But I get it now, feminists are waiting for islam to bring down the christian patriarchal structure, so they (the feminists) can later fight and destroy the islamists. chheeeez

29 posted on 12/17/2007 7:08:33 PM PST by abigkahuna (Step on up folks and see the "Strange Thing"only a thin dollar, babies free)
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To: sageb1

“all faiths” sure it is, just try to bring in the standard scalloped potatoes and ham hot dish!


30 posted on 12/17/2007 7:14:01 PM PST by Nakota
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To: kellynla

Don’t worry. Its not for Christians so “Church and State” doesn’t apply here.


31 posted on 12/17/2007 7:37:58 PM PST by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
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To: Tigercap

How about hiring a belly dancer? :)


32 posted on 12/17/2007 7:41:31 PM PST by Politicalmom (Huckabee is the GOP's Jimmy Carter. Are you ready for Huck the Schmuck to plunder your pocketbook?)
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To: kellynla
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I prefer to meditate over a couple bags of spicy pork rinds...

33 posted on 12/17/2007 7:42:11 PM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: Snickering Hound

*Bounds through the “Meditation Room” tossing pork rinds with gay abandon*

“Oh, look!! It’s snowing!!”


34 posted on 12/17/2007 7:47:04 PM PST by Politicalmom (Huckabee is the GOP's Jimmy Carter. Are you ready for Huck the Schmuck to plunder your pocketbook?)
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To: kellynla

OK...where are the Christian Chapel on this campus????


35 posted on 12/17/2007 7:49:42 PM PST by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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To: VOA

I’ll bring the bacon, make sure to wear a tank top and shorts (I refuse to wear a habj or whatever the bed sheet is they require women to wear) and make sure to sit on the “men’s” side of the room..... We’ll see how “diverse” it is......


36 posted on 12/17/2007 7:50:57 PM PST by captjanaway
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To: silentreignofheroes

Exactly. If I was attending this school I would push the issue. I would show up when it was full of Muslims, not remove my shoes and walk right on in to the side the men were on.
Then I would foce the college to shut down their Muslim room.
The only way to stop this crap is thru confrontation then the threat of a lawsuit.


37 posted on 12/17/2007 7:51:50 PM PST by sheana
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To: kellynla

Can I go there and eat pork rinds while I meditate?


38 posted on 12/17/2007 7:52:58 PM PST by WhirlwindAttack (Muck the Fuslims. They owe me a son. And I got something for you rat's too.)
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To: Mr. Jazzy
OK, I’m cool with the multi use of the room. I am a Bacon-Baptist. I pray five times a day and use a bacon-lettuce and tomato sandwich as part of the prayers.

BLT works for me. We use pork rinds but then again we're orthodox. LOL

(on the plus side you can really spread them around more as they crush well)

39 posted on 12/17/2007 7:58:01 PM PST by WhirlwindAttack (Muck the Fuslims. They owe me a son. And I got something for you rat's too.)
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To: WhirlwindAttack

How about a purse full of bacon bits (REAL bacon bits!!) with a big ol’ hole in the bottom?


40 posted on 12/17/2007 8:06:19 PM PST by Politicalmom (Huckabee is the GOP's Jimmy Carter. Are you ready for Huck the Schmuck to plunder your pocketbook?)
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