It has come to this: Complaint says crosses at Catholic school offensive, prevent Muslim prayers

BeliefNet ^ | 05/08/2015

[SeekAndFind]

Crosses in every room at Washingon D.C.’s Catholic University of America are a human rights violation that prevent Muslim students from praying.

That’s the complaint to the Washington, D.C. Office of Human Rights filed by a professor from rival George Washington University across town.

GWU Law School Professor John Banzhaf takes the Catholic institution to task for acting “probably with malice” against Muslim students in a 60-page complaint that cites “offensive” Catholic imagery all over the Catholic school, which he says hinder Muslims from praying.

Baffled Catholic University officials say they have never received a complaint from any of the schools Muslim students.

Banzhaf, who already has a pending lawsuit against the university over ending its policy of allowing mixed-gender dormitories and has a history of filing civil rights suits on such topics as childhood obesity and smoking, filed the complaint alleging that Muslim students are not given their own prayer rooms.

He alleges that the university, “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,” according to the Tower, Catholic University’s student newspaper.

The complaint further objects that Muslims must pray at the school’s chapels “and at the cathedral that looms over the entire campus – the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.”

[hal ogen]

These LIB/moozlum fools should be deported/exiled immediately. They are subhuman malignancies on any civilization.

[Albion Wilde]

Why would Muslims enroll at a Catholic university in the first place?

And why would a gay couple ask a Christian baker to make their wedding cake?

Both for the same reason: to lodge a punitive lawsuit and strike fear in those they wish to conquer and silence.

[piusv]

I know of a “Catholic” hospital that removed crucifixes from their rooms because the Jews were offended.

I think what will be interesting is whether the Catholic college obliges. I wouldn’t be surprised if they did.