Posted on 11/16/2001 1:17:08 PM PST by concerned about politics
NYC OK's Prayer in School -- for Muslims
That anti-religion bastion of political correctness, the New York City public school system, has quietly sanctioned prayer in schools -- but only of you're a Muslim who wants to worship during Ramadan.
In a talk radio exclusive, New York's WABC Radio has been airing reports on the school system's special program for Muslims for weeks. Late Wednesday, Schools Chancellor Harold Levy finally confirmed that the religious double standard indeed exists.
"Christian parents would probably love to have a place where their children could pray during school hours," WABC newsman George Weber said Thursday. "They don't ... But the Muslim kids are getting their very own prayer room in New York City public schools."
"The New York City public school system is going to accommodate Muslim students allowing them space for prayer" during the five week Muslim holy season of Ramadan, reported Weber's partner, Babita Hariani.
"In a statement, though, school's Chancellor Harold Levy adds the prayer 'cannot interfere with classes or infringe on other students'", she explained.
That's not exactly what the Chancellor's office told the New York Post, which reported Thursday that Levy spokeswoman Margie Feinberg told them Muslim students will be allowed to cut classes in order to pray and then reschedule them later.
I hope we loosen it. We are so bound up in petty rules and regulations placed on us by the likes of the ACLU and activist judges, that if we don't loosen it, we're going to lose it. ;-)
I went to the ACLU web page and left them a message on their "feedback" form. It contains a link to a NY Post article on the subject, (article), and a challenge to prove they are not hypocrites.
You know, they say even a stopped clock is right twice a day. The ACLU is dead right about the headline topics on their web page. The way our honorable representatives in Washington are using the massacre in New York as an excuse to savage the US Constitution is reprehensible.
TL
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