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Muslims say crosses at Catholic University Violate "Human Rights"
 [Fox News] The Washington, D.C. Office of Human Rights confirmed that it is investigating allegations that Catholic University violated the human rights...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... of Mohammedan students by not allowing them to form a Mohammedan student group and by not providing them rooms without Christian symbols for their daily prayers. What part about "Catholic University" don't they understand? Betcha they don't even have a John Wesley prayer room... The investigation alleges that Mohammedan 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 Mohammedan students find inappropriate." I'm still trying to figure why Moslem students would go to a Catholic University? 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. What's to investigate? I know from personal experience that Catholic University's been in Washington, D.C. for years and years. Surely they must have realized it's a Catholic institution before enrolling? The complaint was filed by John Banzhaf, an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School. Ahah. The picture is starting to come into focus... Banzhaf has been involved in previous litigation against the school involving the same-sex residence halls. He also alleged in his complaint involving Mohammedan students that women at the university were being discriminated against. Banzhaf said some Mohammedan 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." That being a Catholic basilica. You know, it goes with the idea of the Catholic University. I've yet to hear about Catholic prayer rooms being set aside at anybody's madrassah. "It shouldn't be too difficult somewhere on the campus for the university to set aside a small room where Mohammedans can pray without having to stare up and be looked down upon by a cross of Jesus," he told Fox News. It probably wouldn't be very hard, but since they're a Catholic institution they don't have to let themselves be bullied into doing so. Posted by: Fred 2011-10-28 |
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