Posted on 01/21/2015 2:01:31 PM PST by 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.”
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Reverend Graham is a man of God.
well then...thanks Frank!
Or that.
Or even better, go to a country where they can’t escape the call to prayer.
I like that better.
God Bless Rev. Franklin Graham and thank-you!
God bless Franklin Graham.
The tagline of another freeper whose name I don’t recall quotes Greg Gutfeld: “If America were a house, the left would root for the termites.”
If Franklin Graham pulled it off, then that is another reason for me to like him.
700 Muslims at Duke is 700 too much!
Good for Franklin...
I'd have made it the Prix Jan III Sobieski but I take your point.
Of course, the only factor that matters to a university was never discussed: High-dollar donors calling up the university president direct on his cell phone, chewing his @$$, and saying they'll pull every nickel they invested out of that place and encourage their rich golf-buddies to do the same.
Exactly. CBS can blame Billy Graham Ministries all they want.
They don’t have the balls to attack the Duke Foundation or the rest of the Alumni.
I’m sure Franklin Graham will gladly own it.
Yep, no doubt. They can tell Billy Graham to put it to music. The alumni association(s), not so much. I’ve seen what happens to a u president that tries that.
At my small university in a western state, we had a football team that just sucked. Totally worthless. The u prez decided to survey the faculty on whether they think the football team should stay or go. They voted overwhelmingly that it should go. The alumni found about it and unloaded on him asking, “How the hell could you even go there?!?!” They hated him ever after. The prez rationalizes that it’s the faculty’s fault for their (in his view) disloyalty to him and the school and he starts doing all kinds of assinine things to take revenge (like making the school be in session on state holidays so that everybody is screwed out of 3-day weekends, making spring break a 4-day weekend Thursday-Sunday instead of 9 days, administrative things like that). Now the students and faculty are pissed. Result: open warfare with the students, faculty, and alumni all wanting the president’s head. Faculty are talking openly in front of students about what an @$$#01E the president is and refusing to attend social functions. Somebody flattened his car tires. Talk about a three-ring circus. When that president left town, there were people standing at the edge of town with profane signs telling him what they thought of him.
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