Muslim call to prayer to sound at Duke University

wral.com ^ | Jan. 13, 2015

[PROCON]

Durham, N.C. — A weekly call to prayer for Muslims will be heard at Duke University starting Friday, school officials said.

Members of the Duke Muslim Students Association will chant the call, known as adhan or azan, from the Duke Chapel bell tower each Friday at 1 p.m. The call to prayer will last about three minutes and be “moderately amplified,” officials said in a statement Tuesday.

“The adhan is the call to prayer that brings Muslims back to their purpose in life, which is to worship God, and serves as a reminder to serve our brothers and sisters in humanity,” said Imam Adeel Zeb, Muslim chaplain at Duke. “The collective Muslim community is truly grateful and excited about Duke’s intentionality toward religious and cultural diversity.”

[KarlInOhio]

Fine, just play Amazing Grace at Noon. If the call to prayer has words, then Amazing Grace should be a vocal, not solely an instrumental, version.

And be sure that it is “moderately amplified” (which probably means blasted all the way to 11 for the Muslims).

[ne1410s]

If Duke gets ANY federal or state funding then wouldn’t this violate separation of church & state?

Oh wait, Islam has mosques, not churches. They destroy churches, so no problem - my mistake...

[Utah Binger]

Just heard on the news that BYU is changing their ban on beards to accommodate Muslims.

Weird...

[Veggie Todd]

Founded by Methodists and Quakers. Now a slave to islam.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Fate heard this news and let Miami beat them.

[Utah Binger]

Mormons can’t grow beards at BYU but Muslims can. Old Briggie is rolling over.

[John S Mosby]

How many “islamics” in the area will respond to this “Call” such that they even allow it? Answer: not one person.
this is because they can force the Univ. to do it.

[BobL]

“They cannot pull your degree 5 years later because they don’t like what you say or do.”

A president can’t stick the IRS on political opponents either...

But true, I have no evidence of a political persecution that I can identify, yet. It simply would not surprise me to see something like that in the future, although it might start with a (fabricated) rape charge 6 months after the degree is conferred.

[itssme]

Sounds great to me, too! Duke students should gather and sing that song, loud and clear, so I can hear it here in Fox Lake, IL. Amazing Grace is a prayer/song that brings tears to my eyes every time hear it.

[Rome2000]

Guess what University is about to lose a lot of students.

[Cowboy Bob]

What if the call to prayer makes you feel uncomfortable? Do you have the right to block it?

[CurlyDave]

My alma matter would deal with this in a different way. It would take about 2 weeks for the Computer Science guys to replace the "call to prayer" with the theme from "Porky Pig". And, the amplification level would be as high as possible.

[Rummyfan]

“This opportunity represents a larger commitment to religious pluralism that is at the heart of Duke’s mission,” said Christy Lohr Sapp, the chapel’s associate dean for religious life. “It connects the university to national trends in religious accommodation.”

Ms Sapp - couldn't make that name up! - should go over to Saudi Arabia and ask if she can hold a Christian service in the mosque in Riyadh. Use that response to rethink what she's doing here with her religous accommodation.

[taildragger]

Fine, just play Amazing Grace at Noon. If the call to prayer has words, then Amazing Grace should be a vocal, not solely an instrumental, version.

Hey we have freedom of Religion and you can create one as well...

So what it some enterprising Student formed the Church of Ted Nugent and the Later Day Amboy Dukes and blast Wango Tango at a volume of 11 at about the same time, every day... :-)

[PGalt]

Audio jihad. Ear pollution. Submit infidel. Middle East Klansmen have taken over. The devils will be blue about the color of Islam.

Dar al Islam 1
Dar al Harb 0

[eartick]

pluralism......

there is that word again.

Some things just are not meant to be and this is not meant to be in America.

How far we have slipped since 9/11 and Obama’s election.

[cva66snipe]

I pity the poor dog they hold down and pour turpentine on his butt so as to get that quality “call” sound from LOL.

[1010RD]

No, you call for a memorial to the victims of Sharia every Friday at 1PM in front of the bell tower. You can show homosexuals, children, women, men all killed or harmed by Sharia Law. Every Friday with new examples culled from the news that very week.

[fredhead]

I was thinking more along the lines of Hendrix’s national anthem played wide open.

[xp38]

First time I heard it was when I traveled to Jordan. Overnight flight to Rome....the following day went to view the ruins of of Ancient Rome’s seaport Ostia with group I was traveling with. Not much sleep in either case. Boarded a late night flight from Rome to Jordan arriving in Jordan about 3:30 am in the morning. About an hour later thoroughly exhausted I collapsed into my hotel bed. Almost immediately the droning call to prayer was blaring into my hotel room and went on what seemed like 10 minutes. It’s not live these days but they use recordings and modern day loudspeakers. Every day for the rest of your life if you want to live the Muslim life. I have concluded Muslims are naturally ill tempered because of this.