Posted on 03/25/2008 6:37:49 AM PDT by bilhosty
If a writer were to make the ultimate satiric remark about Islam's increasing presence in America, he would say something like, "And soon they'll be having the 'call to prayer' in Harvard Square." Except, for those who have been paying attention, the line is neither ironic nor humorous: The call to prayer of a Muslim muezzin or priest was broadcast in Harvard Yard at the Widener Library in Cambridge several times in February, as well as on earlier occasions.
As well, the undergraduate college has this winter restricted one of the three largest gyms on its main campus to "women only" at special hours. The reason? Because a small group of Muslim women students felt that workout clothes violated the prescription that both sexes wear modest dress in shared environments.
Yes, those Muslim women are such athletes! I have been covering the Middle East since 1969 -- always showing proper respect for the manners and customs of the people -- and I have never seen young women in most of those countries hungering for athletics and workouts. Some of the most glorious beaches in the world are there, but you virtually never see a woman swimming at them.
Outside of Lebanon and a few other specific exceptions, as well as the new American universities being constructed (importantly) in liberal countries like Sharjah, there is no evidence of Muslim women students dying to exercise and keep themselves in shape.
Harvard is a private college. If they want to become a madrassa, that’s their business.
I heard a commentator say that if Billy Graham or Pat Robertson had asked Harvard for women only hours at the gym for modesty reasons, they would have laughed in his face. Because a couple muzzies want special hours because they do not want the eyes of infidels gazing upon them...
yes but they are recipients of MASSIVE tax dollars for scholarships and research.
They can make it a sharia madrasa, and we can save a fortune on student scholarship grants and loans and direct research monies to other less homicidal schools.
All the better.
“If they want to become a madrassa, that’s their business.”
Yes. and we have the right to tell them how stupid they are.
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