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Duke University Should Have Never Made the Muslim Prayer Decision
The Christian Post ^ | January 20, 2015 | RICK MCDANIEL

Posted on 01/20/2015 9:06:54 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel

Apparently last semester the Office of Religious Life made up of chaplains' from various faiths thought there should be a new addition to the weekly Muslim service. The adhan, the Muslim call to prayer would be broadcast from speakers on the top of the Chapel bell tower. Omid Safi, director of Duke's Islamic Studies Center said, "We had hoped for a symbolic action that would shine a light on how a leading international university in the American South can be a place where the symbol of the Christian heritage of the university is demonstrating hospitality to its Muslim community members." The fact there is a weekly Muslim service in the Christian chapel was not enough hospitality? The University has held weekly jummah prayers in the basement of the Chapel for over twenty years. The issue is not hospitality but promotion. Can you imagine a three minute long call to prayer broadcast across the campus? In that prayer are the words "Allahu Akbar" the very words Jihadist terrorists shout before they kill innocent people. How chilling would it be to hear those words and wonder what they might mean? How unwelcoming those words could be to the vast majority of students who are not Muslim especially if no other prayers were spoken.

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1 posted on 01/20/2015 9:06:55 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

How about Muslims not desecrating a Christian chapel? That would be hospitable.


2 posted on 01/20/2015 9:10:09 PM PST by GeronL
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

It’s completely outrageous.


3 posted on 01/20/2015 9:12:17 PM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

I’ve only heard the Muslim call to prayer twice and find it really creepy.

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4 posted on 01/20/2015 9:13:57 PM PST by Mears
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Aren’t they supposed to make the call to prayer all the time, not just Friday?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salat_times


5 posted on 01/20/2015 9:15:43 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

“Omid Safi, director of Duke’s Islamic Studies Center”

Islamic studies? Do they have a Christian Studies program there too?


6 posted on 01/20/2015 9:15:49 PM PST by headstamp 2
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To: headstamp 2

BTTT


7 posted on 01/20/2015 9:18:10 PM PST by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: a fool in paradise

Duke was only allowing it on Friday-—no other time.

Sort of a TGIF thing,I guess. :-)

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8 posted on 01/20/2015 9:19:25 PM PST by Mears
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To: GeronL

Future site of a victory mosque.


9 posted on 01/20/2015 9:20:45 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: a fool in paradise

I have no doubt, possibly using the bones of the Duke faculty as construction material


10 posted on 01/20/2015 9:21:55 PM PST by GeronL
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To: Mears
Incrementalism. Get used to it on the installment plan.
11 posted on 01/20/2015 9:22:11 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: a fool in paradise

Um.........No.


12 posted on 01/20/2015 9:23:06 PM PST by Biggirl (2014 MIdterms Were BOTH A Giant Wave And Restraining Order)
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To: GeronL
...demonstrating hospitality to its Muslim community members

Let's see Saudi Arabia "demonstrate hospitality to its Christian community members."

Why the hell does the US keep inviting its mortal enemies in to live among us. We are committing cultural suicide.

13 posted on 01/20/2015 9:23:07 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: a fool in paradise

Friday is the camel’s nose under the tent. It’ll go to 5x on Friday, then MWF, then MWFSS, then SMTWTFS. These bastards take their sweet time destroying their enemies. Look how much progress they’ve made since 2001.


14 posted on 01/20/2015 9:24:37 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: GeronL

Muslims will never be “hospitable” to any religion, including Islam. The west is modernized, the Muslim east is not, they have not changed in thousands of years. Barbaric laws, and insane savage punishments for things we take for granted on a daily basis.

If anyone thinks , says, or demands that Islam be incorporated into America, they should be free to say it. But we should be free to boot their ass to the middle east, and if they somehow survive they can beg on their knees how wrong they were.

Pull your kids out of Duke. Now.

This is not a time for childish dreams and ideas. If they don’t wanna go, then pull their funds. If they are smart, and resourceful enough to pay their own way, they won’t be at duke for very much longer. Things WILL get violent there. Guaranteed. Some Muslim on American rape/murder/assault will occur.

We have every right to defend (with lethal force) our religion and country. One day we’re going to have to and survive, or lay down and die. That’s all it comes down to.
My blood boils at the thought of “American leaders” forcing Islam down our throats. It’s pretty obvious to me that if push comes to shove, Americans will fight back. Look at the movie “American Sniper”, Americans want America back. That’s for damned sure, and one day the idiots are going to go way too far.


15 posted on 01/20/2015 9:28:16 PM PST by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: FreedomStar3028

“American Sniper” will be one of the top 3 possible best movies winners.


16 posted on 01/20/2015 9:32:09 PM PST by Biggirl (2014 MIdterms Were BOTH A Giant Wave And Restraining Order)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

So many still don’t have any understanding of what’s going on.

One must think in very simple logical terms, very basic stuff.

Why would things like this be allowed and encouraged ?

Try to understand the real relationship top US power elites have had with the middle east, just since 9/11.

Why was Bandar Bush’s nickname Bandar Bush ?

Imagine that General Grant and General Lee and their families, all throughout the Civil War, spent weekends at each others vacation homes. It didn’t happen, but just imagine that it did. What would the troops on both sides think ? Something not smell right ?

Now, the overall agendas and strategies between top power elites in the US and the middle east (well, really in every country of the world), never change.

Republican Presidents, Democrat Presidents. Doesn’t matter at all, the programs, the partnerships, continue.

I’m supposed to be a “nutcase conspiracy theorist” because I say “something smells utterly sickening in power elite circles”.


17 posted on 01/20/2015 9:34:36 PM PST by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves)
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To: GeronL
“I have no doubt, possibly using the bones of the Duke faculty as construction material”

Could we compromise and use them for outhouse construction?

Seems fitting, somehow.

18 posted on 01/20/2015 9:35:06 PM PST by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est. Because of what Islam is - and because of what Muslims do.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

so is the call to prayer happening at Duke or not? something is missing from this article... it jumped...


19 posted on 01/20/2015 9:36:17 PM PST by latina4dubya (wheni have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“Why the hell does the US keep inviting its mortal enemies in to live among us. We are committing cultural suicide.”

...Because their in on the plan to destroy America too.


20 posted on 01/20/2015 9:38:59 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
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