CBS This Morning Blames Cancellation of Muslim Prayer Event at Duke on Franklin Graham

CBS ^ | January 16, 2015 | Curtis Houck

[BlackFemaleArmyColonel]

On Friday, CBS This Morning reported on news that Duke University had cancelled plans to have a Muslim call-to-prayer projected from the school’s famous bell tower at the Duke Chapel and, while Duke suggested that there were “several factors” that led to the decision, the segment prominently tied it to Rev. Franklin Graham and subsequent threats against them.

CBS News correspondent Julianna Goldman fretted that the cancellation came as “students, faculty, and administrators spent months working on a new way to make campus feel more inclusive for its 700 Muslims.”

Goldman added that the event was axed “following security threats and a barrage of criticism from the community, as well as Franklin Graham, son of Evangelist, Billy Graham.”

After a soundbite from Graham denouncing Islam as “not a God of peace,” Goldman read an excerpt from a post Graham posted on Facebook that “received more than 70,000 likes.”

From there, Duke University’s Vice President for Student Affairs Michael Schoenfeld stated that there’s been “more than one Facebook post and we received a number of calls and emails, some of which were actually quite vitriolic.”

It was following this that part of one such “threat” was shown on screen that “took the university by surprise and prompted the school to call in federal agents”:

One email sent to the school’s president and shared with CBS This Morning read, “France....started with politically correct speech, welcoming the Muslims. Now the same people they welcomed, slaughter the citizens in the street. You sir will be responsible for slaughtering Americans.”

[C. Edmund Wright]

BLAME?
don’t they mean “credit”

[Sacajaweau]

Thank you Rev Graham. This is a Christian country...not a Muslim STATE. Islam is a political system...not a religion.

[Vigilanteman]

The ACLU and their fascist allies are so adamant about driving any professions of Christian faith from the public square. The same standards ought to apply to Muslims, especially concerning the violent anti-American bent of the religion.

[easternsky]

He knew what He was doing, and has broad shoulder's, and We will be Praying for him.

[Jane Long]

One email sent to the school’s president and shared with CBS This Morning read, “France....started with politically correct speech, welcoming the Muslims. Now the same people they welcomed, slaughter the citizens in the street. You sir will be responsible for slaughtering Americans.”

I guess the truth is tough to handle, these days.

(Good to see you back at FR! Hope all is well.)

[SgtHooper]

Glad to hear it. That means they give Franklin far more power than he previously had.

[BlackFemaleArmyColonel]

Thank You, Jane. All is well. God bless you.

[Fungi]

Anything that puts Christians in a bad light. Which side is CBS on?

[MeshugeMikey]

“France....started with politically correct speech, welcoming the Muslims. Now the same people they welcomed, slaughter the citizens in the street. You sir will be responsible for slaughtering Americans.”

and theres something wrong with expressing THAT?

[null and void]

If the muzzie students want personal notification of prayer times the could easily set a muezzin's call as a ring tone and go all in on an auto call system to their own cell phones. But I guess that would mean they're not hijacking a Christian bell tower, wouldn't it???

[faithhopecharity]

Blame?

Credit!

[originalbuckeye]

I looked it up. Duke has 14,850 students. They wanted to blast the Call to Prayer over the whole campus to make 700 students feel more comfortable? OK, then how about they play the Lord’s Prayer right after to make most of the rest of the students feel more comfortable. Those who sue for the separation of church and state for some reason are pushing Islam.........they should be sued back for the separation of religious indoctrination and state, too.

[Travis McGee]

In an alternate universe, or the USA before 1960, they would have been awarding him the Charles Martel Gold Prize for Defending Western Civilization.

[I want the USA back]

When the beard and burka crowd prays, it’s to get help in killing Jews and Christians. Their prayer events should be cancelled.

[Mark17]

BLAME? don’t they mean “credit”

I wouldn't mind taking credit for that.

[SeekAndFind]

exactly what did Franklin Graham plan to do that caused them to change their mind anyway?

Why ascribe to Graham so much influence?

[Brother Cracker]

[Mark17]

If the muzzie students want personal notification of prayer times the could easily set a muezzin's call as a ring tone and go all in on an auto call system to their own cell phones. But I guess that would mean they're not hijacking a Christian bell tower, wouldn't it???

Maybe they could simply look at their wrist watches.

[I want the USA back]

“Islam is a political system...not a religion.”
Exactly.