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Duke University reverses decision, will not allow Muslim call to prayer at its chapel
Charlotte Observer ^ | 01/15/2015 | Adam Bell

Posted on 01/15/2015 1:09:35 PM PST by SeekAndFind

Duke University has reversed itself, and announced Thursday afternoon it will not allow a Muslim call to prayer Friday from its iconic cathedral.

The decision had met with widespread controversy.

“Duke remains committed to fostering an inclusive, tolerant and welcoming campus for all of its students,” said Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations. “However, it was clear that what was conceived as an effort to unify was not having the intended effect.”

Members of the Muslim community will now gather on the quadrangle outside the chapel before moving to its regular location for prayers, Duke said.

The move to authorize the call to prayer from the chapel had roiled social media and led to a denunciation from evangelist Franklin Graham.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: duke; dukeuniversity; islam; muslim; muslimcalltoprayer
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To: SeekAndFind

Thank G-d!

Those muzzie prayer calls are some of the worst noises on the planet.


61 posted on 01/15/2015 1:42:31 PM PST by AbnSarge
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To: rlmorel

Best friends for life? Oh, ok.


62 posted on 01/15/2015 1:43:06 PM PST by Aliska
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To: Bitsy

They must’ve received a rash of sh$$! Just considering such a thing would keep me from donating or allowing my kid to go there or continue to go there.


63 posted on 01/15/2015 1:43:12 PM PST by albie
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To: VideoDoctor

Perhaps not powerful donors, but powerful Prayer Warriors. Thank God


64 posted on 01/15/2015 1:43:15 PM PST by easternsky
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To: PROCON
thats a fact!

perhaps Farraklown...will try to intervene on behea,,,,,er behalf of the Mohammedummies?


65 posted on 01/15/2015 1:43:53 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: SeekAndFind
Chick-fil-A’s outlet on campus closed in 2013, after its contract expired in the wake of concerns expressed by the LGBT Center.
And what is the LGBT Center's position on Islam's teachings, treatments, tolerance of the world's homosexual community?
66 posted on 01/15/2015 1:44:28 PM PST by Stand Watch Listen (When the going gets tough...the Low Information President Obola (LIPO) goes golfing)
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To: SeekAndFind
Somebody better call AFR, they've been talking about this all day. Hey, maybe all
that talk got some Dukes all pissed off and they called in to revoke their pledges.

Those Terrorists on Campus know what this kind of pacifism leads to, lobbing heads off!
And those Muslims Terrorists on Campus also know that if they get their way
only about 10% of those on that campus will be left alive after the beheadings.
And those 10% will be the Women being passed around and raped until they finally
cut their heads off too. Hows that for Diversity, Liberal Idiots! Check your History!

67 posted on 01/15/2015 1:45:16 PM PST by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: nascarnation

please see...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3247225/posts?page=65#65

post 65...this thread/


68 posted on 01/15/2015 1:45:21 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MeshugeMikey

LOL, nice job Mikey.


69 posted on 01/15/2015 1:45:35 PM PST by PROCON (Je suis Charlie Bronson.)
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To: PROCON

I wonder if King Fish...are Hallal??? sharia compliant..??

Farraklown needs his own Charlie Hebdoe ISSUE!!


70 posted on 01/15/2015 1:47:28 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: SeekAndFind

Maybe play clips from Achmed the Dead Terroist instead.


71 posted on 01/15/2015 1:48:12 PM PST by matt04
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To: molson209

CAIR will get a cow.


72 posted on 01/15/2015 1:52:05 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: SeekAndFind

When the light hits the rats they always go running for cover.


73 posted on 01/15/2015 1:52:12 PM PST by Iron Munro ("Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms - Open Up!" "Must be another UPS delivery, honey.")
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To: cuban leaf
That’s a nice university you have there. It would be a shame if something were to happen to it.


74 posted on 01/15/2015 1:55:26 PM PST by Iron Munro ("Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms - Open Up!" "Must be another UPS delivery, honey.")
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To: SeekAndFind

Wow! Some alumni must have threatened to revoke endowments. Between this nonsense and the faculty’s conduct during the whole lacrosse-team-rape fake scandal, I’m wondering what the value of a Duke education is.


75 posted on 01/15/2015 1:58:20 PM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

It is a technical world. The Muslims could have a personal alarm on vibrate with a call to not perform Radical Islam and to go pray.


76 posted on 01/15/2015 2:00:13 PM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

Why can’t Muslimes pray without being reminded?

The very public call to prayer is a head count. Who submits and who doesn’t is obvious. None of this “go off to a closet and pray.” None of this “pray in your heart” stuff. They want to SEE who prays. Also, given the savagery and violence of islam, there is the intimidation factor.


77 posted on 01/15/2015 2:02:45 PM PST by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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To: KoRn
<>The fact that they were ABOUT to do it should be enough to concern anyone.<>

Creeping sharia.

I keep going back to David Horowitz' 2004 book, Unholy Alliance.

Islam and the World Left have same short term goal, destruction of the US. They'll work out their differences afterward.

78 posted on 01/15/2015 2:02:58 PM PST by Jacquerie (Article V. If not now, when?)
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To: SeekAndFind
"Nice cathedral ya got there. Would be a real shame if sometin' was to happen to it..."
79 posted on 01/15/2015 2:04:15 PM PST by pabianice (LINE)
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To: A_Former_Democrat

Let them promote their doctrine that the earth is flat and the notion that it is roughly spherical is a Western-Zionist plot.


80 posted on 01/15/2015 2:05:31 PM PST by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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