Lamh Foistenach Abu!
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.”
Freakin’ vampires. They are nothing but a pain in the ass. Especially around this time of year.
I would think this was satire, but in this day and age something like this is considered normal. Geesh, Louise, it’s a frickin’ CATHOLIC university!!
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
What did they expect?
The deal should be that Catholic University provides a "neutral" space when the first Church is opened in Saudi Arabia.
Burqas at Catholic university violate rights of Catholic students.
The mere fact that Christianity is still legal in the USA violates the rights of Muslim students. [/s]
They don’t have any resources just off campus where they can howl to Allah in a cross-free room?
But yeah, it’s a Catholic university and at least nominally it matriculates students from a Catholic world view. Somehow this is not raising the ire of their Moose students. If Moose don’t like that, they should go to secular universities or set up Moose universities.
Seeing a moozlum anywhere is an insult to others.
Oh for goodness sakes. Things are not only getting worse day by day, but thread by thread!
And NO, I won’t turn off my FR. I’m addicted.
Lawyers are nothing more than predatory scavengers living off the road kill of society.
EXACTLY. John Banzhaf gives even trial lawyers a bad name - he makes John Edwards look like a boy scout of a lawyer.
This is the guy that first started suing the tobacco companies, then sued other lawyers for a bigger slice of that pie, then started in on mcDonald's and Burger King. Oh yeah and he's filed complaints and suits for "potty parity."
He's also going after Catholic University for doing away with co-ed dorms and returning to same sex dorms on campus.
This guy is just plain sleaze. H
Placemark.
Banzhaf III is a leftist nutcase and always has been. However, he is a good lawyer and is thus very dangerous to American society.
Wonder how the leftist Catholics are going to view this?
Infiltrate and destroy from within. It’s working like a charm.
I attend a Catholic University in the DC area as well, and it, too, is swarming with muslims. I mean SWARMING. Catholic Universities are asking for it by accepting them.
Most of them travel in packs, gibbering in arabic. Had to tell a few of them to shut up one night in the quiet section of the library. They came right back at me (middle aged white woman, of course) w/ a bronx cheer type of reaction — the young men truly are spoiled rotten monsters.
Laws need to change in this country regarding the attendance of private religious schools. Either you accept what’s being put forth there, or you DON’T GO.
Infiltrate and destroy from within. It’s working like a charm.
All over America.
give the goathumpers their money back and kick their wretched azzes out...
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