Posted on 10/27/2011 6:39:22 PM PDT by Jean S
The Washington, D.C. Office of Human Rights is investigating the Catholic University of America.
The Tower, a student newspaper at the university, says the charges allege the school does not provide Muslim students with places to hold frequent prayer services free of crosses or other Catholic symbols.
John F. Banzhaf III, a George Washington University Professor of Public Interest Law, ade the complaint to the human rights agency. In a news release Banzhaf alleges: "It is alleged that CUA does not provide space -- as other universities do -- for the many daily prayers Muslim students must make, forcing them instead to find temporarily empty classrooms where they are often surrounded by Catholic symbols which are incongruous to their religion."
The university says it hasn't seen any legal filings on the matter, but sent a written statement to Fox News.
“Our faithfulness to our Catholic tradition has also made us a welcome home to students of other religions,” said Victor Nakas, associate vice president for public affairs. “No students have registered complaints about the exercise of their religions on our campus.”
Banzhaf also complained that CUA does not sponsor a Muslim student association. But the Tower reports an Arab American Student Association recently formed on campus. The founder, Wiaam Al Salmi, told the Tower, “The community here is very respectful of other religions and I feel free to openly practice it.”
Patrick Reilly, the president of the Cardinal Newman Society, an organization that promotes Catholic identity on college campuses, told Fox News he was stunned by the complaint.
“This attorney is really turning civil rights on its head,” he said. “He’s using the law for his own discrimination against the Catholic institution and essentially saying Catholic University cannot operate according to Catholic principles.”
“I do know Jesus loves Muslims”
Specific cites, please.
Oh ... wait.
They understand perfectly well ... and they're waging jihad against Catholic University.
why would a muslim student want to go there if he/she were so frightened of crosses to begin with?
Catholic University has crosses EVERYWHERE. Outside, inside - in the hallways, in the rooms, in the dining halls. Maybe even in the bathrooms?
I bet they’re REAL offended by the basilica huh?
What, on earth, are they doing there in the first place?
?? Who opened the door to allow some ragheads to study at a Catholic University??
Screw the muzzies, throw them out, and refund the balance of their semester payments. Bar them from the campus!
The jihad being waged here is being done by thew sleazeball lawyer who has created this issue that was not an issue until he decided to make it an issue.
This jackwagon Banzhaf makes the ambulance chasing John Edwards look like a boyscout.
Attorney: Crosses at Catholic Elementary school in Indonesia violated human rights of young Obummer
``From ages six to ten, Obama attended local schools in Jakarta, including Besuki Public School [muslim]and St. Francis of Assisi School``
-wikipedia
Why are non-Christians going to school here in the first place?
And we wonder why a bunch of savage backwoods militia Islamic fundamentalists are kicking our asses....
Jews won’t worship in the presence of idols,either.
John 3:17. It is up to them to complete the cycle. If not love becomes a verb of the passed tense.
No. They're quite happy being here and screwing up our country. We don't the have any leadership with the cajones to do a damned thing about it. You don't see them going up to Russia or China to mess with them.
I’m just going to delete my own comment, and save the mods the trouble of doing so.
I’m sure the Catholic institution will bend over backwards to make the muslims feel comfortable.....like a lot of liberal Catholic institutions have done...
mooslimbs can’t escape crosses at a Catholic University...
Imagine that...
It proved one thing and that is the priest that did the covering is not catholic or christian,
C'mon. Tell us what you really think. It's sad when we hold back even on Free Republic.
They're also afraid of holy water, garlic, and wooden stakes. Funny how Vlad got tagged as the vampire.
Hoping this is a rhetorical question...but just in case, the answer is to rid the Catholic school of crosses.
I went to a Catholic high school, and had no problem finding a crucifix-free space to say my daily prayers. If they have a problem, why did they matriculate?
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