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Do Crosses at Catholic University Violate “Human Rights” of Muslims?
Fox News ^ | 10-26-11

Posted on 08/14/2012 6:56:40 PM PDT by SJackson

The Washington, D.C. Office of Human Rights confirmed that it is investigating allegations that Catholic University violated the human rights of Muslim students by not allowing them to form a Muslim student group and by not providing them rooms without Christian symbols for their daily prayers.

The investigation alleges that Muslim students “must perform their prayers surrounded by symbols of Catholicism – e.g., a wooden crucifix, paintings of Jesus, pictures of priests and theologians which many Muslim students find inappropriate.”

A spokesperson for the Office of Human Rights told Fox News they had received a 60-page complaint against the private university. The investigation, they said, could take as long a six months.

(Excerpt) Read more at radio.foxnews.com ...


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KEYWORDS: catholicu; cross; msa; muslimstudents
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1 posted on 08/14/2012 6:56:43 PM PDT by SJackson
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Old article, but didn't see it posted, or any indication of the resolution if it's been resolved.

2 posted on 08/14/2012 6:58:14 PM PDT by SJackson (I used to eat a lot of natural foods until I learned that most people people die of natural causes)
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if they are ohhh sooooo offended then let them go to a university that isn’t CHRISTIAN fer cryin out loud


3 posted on 08/14/2012 6:59:13 PM PDT by Nifster
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Naturally the D.C. Office of Human Rights is eating this stuff up! Wait until the Muslims take over, you morons, and see how "human rights" are throttled then! As they will be - ask any Christian who has lived in a Muslim dominated nation.



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5 posted on 08/14/2012 7:03:15 PM PDT by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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I think it’s obvious that the muslims are going to the Catholic U specifically to infiltrate it and ruin it. A common sense judge would tell the students not to go there if they don’t like it, but we don’t have judges with common sense anymore.


6 posted on 08/14/2012 7:03:20 PM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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Just like in Canada, it’s pretty obvious that if you put the term ‘Human Rights’ in an organization’s title they turn into a neo-nazi outfit almost immediately.


8 posted on 08/14/2012 7:04:08 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: SJackson

As my very wise mother would say, “For that to matter, I’d have to care.”


9 posted on 08/14/2012 7:06:18 PM PDT by Category Four (Joy, Fun, the Joke Proper, and Flippancy ... Flippancy is the best of all.)
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Perhaps they could just attend a Muslim university...wait, there is no such place. Why is that?


10 posted on 08/14/2012 7:06:18 PM PDT by mkmensinger
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It's a Catholic School, isn't it? The Muslims are free to transfer.

Unfortunately, the ObaMao administration will give the Muslims a sympathetic ear.

11 posted on 08/14/2012 7:07:06 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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As I recall there were no Moslem students involved in the complaint. They were apparently busy studying. This is a phony BS complaint concocted by a lawyer looking for a fee to be awarded after a trial or something.


12 posted on 08/14/2012 7:07:06 PM PDT by muawiyah
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One would have thought that a name like Catholic University would have been a dead give-away that there would be things like crosses and pictures of Jesus and stuff like that around.


13 posted on 08/14/2012 7:09:37 PM PDT by Delhi Rebels (There was a row in Silver Street - the regiments was out.)
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Why would a Catholic university take Muslim students? Why would they not immediately expell those same students they stupidly allowed to enroll when they did this? As for the Muslim students, let them go back to their friends and throw more postal workers off the roof .
14 posted on 08/14/2012 7:10:13 PM PDT by Dogbert41 ("...The people of Jerusalem are strong, because the Lord Almighty is their God" Zech. 12:5)
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There are many accommodations not made at Catholic Universities.

If you don’t like it, LEAVE!!!


15 posted on 08/14/2012 7:10:57 PM PDT by G Larry (Progressives are Regressive because their objectives devolve to the lowest common denominator.)
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http://www.cuatower.com/news/2011/11/04/muslim-students-criticize-banzhafs-legal-action/ ~ latest news i believe.


16 posted on 08/14/2012 7:12:19 PM PDT by muawiyah
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I am sure that Obama would allow them a prayer room in the White House.


17 posted on 08/14/2012 7:14:00 PM PDT by Slyfox
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WTF?!? Muslim students can take their asses to other institutions or go to Muslim countries (or Europe)! It is a Catholic institution. I understand many are more liberal in their views, but it is still a religious institution. Nobody is forcing them to go there, they have a choice. If they want a more inclusive environment, go to UC Berkeley, they love all that hippie crap.


18 posted on 08/14/2012 7:14:12 PM PDT by ABQHispConservative
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To: ConorMacNessa

AMEN! Well said.


19 posted on 08/14/2012 7:16:15 PM PDT by doc1019 (Romney will NEVER get my vote.)
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If I remember correctly, this was filed by Banzhaf, the activist ambulance chasing lawyer from GWU who sued the school over their policy of single-sex dorms as a violation of civil rights.

When the student body (myself included at the time) rallied around the administration, he filed this lawsuit as well. I don’t think any students came forward and asked him to file the lawsuit against the campus.


20 posted on 08/14/2012 7:18:13 PM PDT by Shadow44
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