Posted on 12/05/2013 1:55:05 PM PST by george76
FORT WORTH – The chaplain at a Christian university in Texas on Tuesday defended the university’s decision to set aside a room on campus for Muslim students to pray, saying it was the Biblical thing do to.
The Rev. Dr. Robert Kenji Flowers, chaplain at Texas Wesleyan University and also an adjunct world religion professor there, said in an interview with The College Fix that recent controversy over the room – which is a little over 1-years-old - came as a surprise to him. Debate over the room flared after a campus news report about the room was published last month.
“Like most schools that are called Christian institutions, historically we were aligned with a particular faith tradition, but through the years that affiliation has diminished,” he said. “It’s a misnomer in some ways to even say it’s a Christian university.”
As for the controversy surrounding its Muslim prayer room – which some have suggested illustrates the Islamification of America, the kowtowing of Christians to Muslims, and serves as an insult to the Christian traditions of the university - Flowers dismissed those claims as “far-right paranoia and misinformation.”
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Texas Wesleyan University, founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1890, opened the prayer room in 2012 in the campus fitness center. The room was set aside at the behest of the school’s Saudi Students Club. Flowers said there has been an influx of students from Saudi Arabia in recent years at the school.
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The Christian News Network also pointed out a few online comments under the student newspaper article, including one which stated: “I am disgusted by this submission to Islam. What’s next, a room for Rastafarians? How about Voodoo? Santa Ria? Devil worshippers? You are supposed to be a Methodist university. What is wrong with this school?”
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> It’s a misnomer in some ways to even say it’s a Christian university.”
Understatement of the day.
These people are not Christians.
What are muslims doing at a Christian College?
Infiltrating.
Which I think tells us everything we need to know about him and his so-called college
A bunch of 7th. century savages that the only reason for their existence is to kill Westerners and this guy wants to appease them???
“Useful idiots” come in all shapes, sizes, and beliefs.
Winning
Many Christian schools in Europe have more Muslim students than Christian ones these days
There is nothing interfaith about a prayer room that faces Mecca and meets all the specifications of the salat. The most stringent Islamists in the Middle East would be proud of this prayer room at “Christian” Texas Wesleyan University in Ft. Worth.
This meets all sharia specifications. What more could an aspiring Islamic jihadist want?
Same thing they are doing in the White House. Taking over America.
Fire his stupid a$s.
Not when there is a skunk in the henhouse.
What are muslims doing at a Christian College?>>>>>>>>>
Theses foreign Muzzie students pay full freight. The school is seeing dollar signs thus the new Moooooooooooooooooozlim prayer center, mosque, what have you. You gotta keep your best customers happy
In the voice of John Reep (the “that thing got a hemi!? guy)...
“...that guy a dhimmi?!?!?!?!?...”
Doubt a Christian prayer room will apply anywhere once the world wide caliphate is established.
KYPD
This is a nightmare. I keep hoping I will wake up.
Texas Wesleyan left its religious roots long ago.
Give Muslims an inch and they will steal a mile.
>an influx of students from Saudi Arabia in recent years at the school.
There is the real reason for bowing to the muzzy wishes. Money, and lots of it from oil families. It sounds like a good place to throw left over pork ribs.
“1-years-old”...lol
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