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Muslim Prayer Room Opens in Catholic High School
http://nation.foxnews.com/ ^ | 01/01/2014 | Dale Carruthers

Posted on 01/01/2014 6:47:45 PM PST by massmike

LONDON, ONT. - Mother Teresa Catholic secondary school is turning a second-floor office into an Islamic prayer room -- the first high school in the city, private or public, to do so.

Carpet will soon cover the tile flooring, speakers will be installed and prayer mats purchased to provide the school's Muslim students, estimated at around two dozen, with a quiet and private place to pray.

The idea has been in the works since the end of the last school year after a group of Muslim students lobbied administration to create the space.

"They're members of our school community. We want to ensure that all our students feel welcome, that they feel that they belong," said Principal Ana Paula Fernandes.

The prayer room, expected to be completed by the end of September, is located on a busy stretch on the second floor, just metres from the school's large chapel. "That was very important to ensure that it was included in the main building, and not tucked away somewhere," Fernandes said.

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


TOPICS: Canada; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: canada; catholicschool; chrislam; infiltration; muslims; ontario; prayerroom
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To: cherry
"I’m stunned....."

Why? It's been about 40 years since a majority of Catholics believed that their own beleifs were closer to the truth than anyone else's, including those of Muslims or Buddhists or even atheists.
21 posted on 01/01/2014 7:18:22 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: peyton randolph

My own alma-mater (Seattle University, Jesuit) has been hard-left for at least 20 years. Their latest enthusiasm is disinvesting from fossil-fuel companies. Their philosophy department (my former major) includes pro-abortion activists and animal rights activists and 9/11 truthers.


22 posted on 01/01/2014 7:22:28 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: massmike

So, now this catholic school is officially sanctioning prayer to pagan moon gods. Fascinating, to say the least.


23 posted on 01/01/2014 7:25:54 PM PST by cdcdawg (Be seeing you...)
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To: cherry

FReeper’s beeber stuned! News at 11!


24 posted on 01/01/2014 7:27:41 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
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To: massmike

Weakness


25 posted on 01/01/2014 7:29:55 PM PST by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: massmike

26 posted on 01/01/2014 7:30:47 PM PST by Dogbert41 (Up yours NSA !)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

Better check for Muzzie prayer rooms!


27 posted on 01/01/2014 7:30:55 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
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To: massmike

Good grief...what the hell comes next???????


28 posted on 01/01/2014 7:30:56 PM PST by terycarl
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To: massmike; RichInOC; Prince of Space; JoeFromSidney; TNMountainMan; alphadog; infool7; Heart-Rest; ..
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Add me / Remove me

Please ping me to note-worthy Pro-Life or Catholic threads, or other threads of general interest.

29 posted on 01/01/2014 7:30:57 PM PST by narses (... unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you.)
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To: Steve_Seattle
Why? It's been about 40 years since a majority of Catholics believed that their own beleifs were closer to the truth than anyone else's, including those of Muslims or Buddhists or even atheists.

NONSENSE

30 posted on 01/01/2014 7:34:16 PM PST by terycarl
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To: massmike

Our Lady of Victory pray for us.


31 posted on 01/01/2014 7:34:36 PM PST by jtal (Runnin' a World in Need with White Folks' Greed - since 1492)
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To: peyton randolph

They have a Muzzie prayer room at the Marine Corps base at Quantico!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/06/AR2006060601529.html


32 posted on 01/01/2014 7:38:25 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
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To: massmike

If I had a kid in that ‘Catholic’ school, I would take them out. Do the school have a room for Wiccans?


33 posted on 01/01/2014 7:45:55 PM PST by ExCTCitizen (2014 the year of dead RINOs)
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To: terycarl

If you cut out “what the” and the question marks from your own comment, you will find the answer to your question.


34 posted on 01/01/2014 7:47:46 PM PST by Hieronymus ( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G.K. Chesterton))
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To: Hieronymus

My political party has left me and now my religion is leaving me.


35 posted on 01/01/2014 7:55:33 PM PST by Venturer (Half Staff the Flag of the US for Terrorists.)
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To: cherry

I’m not.

Visited my son’s Jesuit HS long after he graduated and the first student I see is dressed in Muslim garb and sports one of those sinister beards.

No more contributions, that’s for sure.


36 posted on 01/01/2014 7:59:41 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: Venturer

Don’t read too much into the religion angle—the Church has zero actual control over the Catholic system in Ontario—it is effectively run jointly by the Teachers’ Unions, elected boards, and the government. Priests and Bishops can get in if they ask and receive permission—otherwise, no. A number of years ago, the Cardinal in Toronto tried to block the appointment of a heretic to the position of head of theology in a Catholic High School, and it was ruled that it was none of his business.


37 posted on 01/01/2014 8:03:30 PM PST by Hieronymus ( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G.K. Chesterton))
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To: massmike

Wonderful the muzzies will pray for the opportunity to burn down the school and slit the throats of the Catholics.


38 posted on 01/01/2014 8:07:39 PM PST by FreedomGuru (Time for torches and pitchforks.)
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To: massmike

This is a joke,right?

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39 posted on 01/01/2014 8:08:56 PM PST by Mears
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To: massmike

Maybe it is being used to reach Fatima....

Our Lady of Fatima and the “Muslim Connection”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3020419/posts


40 posted on 01/01/2014 8:27:10 PM PST by delchiante
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