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Catholic symbols at Catholic University offend muslim students
Pandora:
The Religion of the Perpetually Offended strikes again.
--- Quote ---The Washington, D.C. Office of Human Rights confirmed that it is investigating allegations that Catholic University violated the human rights of Muslim students by not allowing them to form a Muslim student group and by not providing them rooms without Christian symbols for their daily prayers.
The investigation alleges that Muslim students “must perform their prayers surrounded by symbols of Catholicism – e.g., a wooden crucifix, paintings of Jesus, pictures of priests and theologians which many Muslim students find inappropriate.”
A spokesperson for the Office of Human Rights told Fox News they had received a 60-page complaint against the private university. The investigation, they said, could take as long a six months.
The complaint was filed by John Banzhaf, an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School. Banzhaf has been involved in previous litigation against the school involving the same-sex residence halls. He also alleged in his complaint involving Muslim students that women at the university were being discriminated against.
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Banzhaf said some Muslim students were particularly offended because they had to meditate in the school’s chapels “and at the cathedral that looms over the entire campus – the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.”
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Patrick Reilly, the president of the Cardinal Newman Society, an organization that promotes Catholic identity among Catholic schools, seemed stunned by the complaint.
“I don’t know what the attorney wants them to do – if he wants them to actually move the Basilica or if the Muslim students can find someplace where they don’t have to look at it,” he told Fox News.
Catholic University, he said, is a Catholic institution.
“One wouldn’t expect a Jewish institution to be responsible for providing liturgical opportunities for other faiths and I wouldn’t expect a Catholic institution to do that,” he said.
“This attorney is really turning civil rights on its head,” he said. “He’s using the law for his own discrimination against the Catholic institution and essentially saying Catholic University cannot operate according to Catholic principles.”
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IronDioPriest:
Devolution into the absurd.
--- Quote ---Isaiah 5:20
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
--- End quote ---
Not saying the church or the university is good. But I am saying that we are in a time when good/evil; lies/truth; right/wrong; reality/fantasy; just/unjust; rich/poor; education/indoctrination - and a host of other opposites - are carelessly interchanged by those with evil intentions.
Libertas:
Catholic symbols at Catholic University offend muslim students
GOOD!
Now, you don't like it? Tough, STFD STFU and GTFO!
fingerroll:
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2011/10/28/muslims_want_crosses_at_catholic_university_removed_before_they_pray
Interesting that they chose to go to a private catholic school. If they wanted to whine about this at a public school I would be with them, but to force a private catholic school to change is incredibly ballsy! WTF, go to a Muslim school.
Glock32:
I have had damn well enough of this.
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