Posted on 11/16/2001 1:23:34 PM PST by Sabertooth
After a flood of complaints about the decision by New York City's public school Chancellor Harold Levy to set aside special classrooms where Muslim students could pray during Ramadan, the plan has been abruptly dropped.
"The Schools Chancellor is making an about-face from yesterday's announcement that Muslim students could go to a special area on school grounds and pray for Ramadan," reported WABC Radio in New York, which broke the Muslim-prayer-in-schools story last month.
Civil rights lawyers as well as many in the general public were outraged at the double standard that blatantly violated the Supreme Court's ruling banning school prayer and they let their displeasure be known in calls to Levy's office.
The Catholic League, on the other hand, actually praised the decision, but noted the double standard in a press release Thursday.
"It is only fitting that the New York City public schools extend to Jews and Christians the same respect for their religious traditions and observances that they now extend to Muslims," Catholic League President William Donohue said.
"This is what diversity really means—giving equal recognition to the diverse cultural and religious heritages that constitute the American mosaic. We expect our plea for parity will be granted."
Rather than granting parity, however, Schools Chancellor Levy abandoned the school prayer plan entirely.
"Students of all religious faiths can always pray but it cannot disrupt class and it cannot be offered in the form of a special prayer room," Levy's office said.
Exactly!!! The hypocrites are caught again...thanks for the post!
Right out of page 37 of the New Butt Order® (NBO) playbook.
At least people are now "sensitive" to the fact that every other religion is favored and promoted other than Christianity.
The school was caught favoring one religion over another all for the sake of "diversity" and "cultural sensitivity".
Maybe they'll learn to apply the rules more fairly.
Exactly!!! The hypocrites are caught again...thanks for the post!
Right on point.
With Ramadan here, we're running out of shopping days to get the dummy bombs for the kiddies.
Everyone is pretending this is a new policy and the media just broke the story. Not true.
Schools Harass Christians, Coddle Other FaithsSource: FrontPageMagazine.com
Published: June 21, 2001
Author: Dr. David A. Yeagley
Posted on 06/24/2001
13:54:50 PDT by dvanIN NEW YORK CITY, Muslims can pray in public schools. Christians can’t. Muslims can assemble in school auditoriums, during school hours, and pray. Christians cannot.
So says the New York Post, in a Dec.1, 2000 article titled, “Muslim Kids Get To Pray In School For Ramadan,” by Carl Campanile...
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b36539a5777.htm
Surely an oversight. It can't only be Christian practice which offends them can it?
"Rather than granting parity, however, Schools Chancellor Levy abandoned the school prayer plan entirely."
Oh, golly geeeez whillackers . . . let's NOT be PC because everyone else is bitching about it, and afterall, it does involve, you know . . . that awful thing some people do . . . PRAYING!
FReeregards . . .
Well, I know what I'll be seeing on the local news tonight. Lots of whining.
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