`Muslim prayer call At Duke U......`

[LongTermGuy]

`In a new initiative to promote religious pluralism, Duke University will broadcast the Muslim call to prayer every Friday on campus. The call to prayer—also known as “adhan”—will be chanted by the Duke Muslim Student Association......`





http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...ke-university/ (http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/01/14/muslim-call-to-prayer-to-be-chanted-every-friday-at-duke-university/)



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[Kathianne]

I know a couple alumni from Duke, talked to one of them yesterday. Seems there was a call to not send their kids there, stop contributing, etc., until this stopped. Guess what?

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/01/15/allahu-akbar-duke-university-to-broadcast-muslim-call-to-prayer-from-chapel/


Duke backs down, cancels Muslim call to prayer from chapel towerBy Todd Starnes (http://www.foxnews.com/archive/todd-starnes)
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Duke University has abandoned its plan to transform the bell tower on the Methodist school’s neo-gothic cathedral into a minaret where the Muslim call to prayer was to be publicly broadcast.
“Duke remains committed to fostering an inclusive, tolerant and welcoming campus for all of its students,” university spokesman Michael Schoenfeld said in a statement. “However, it was clear that what was conceived as an effort to unify was not having the intended effect.”

The first adhan, or call to prayer, had been scheduled to be broadcast on Jan. 16. University officials said, the Islamic chant, which includes the words “Allahu Akbar” would have been “moderately amplified (https://today.duke.edu/2015/01/adhanannouncement)” -- in both English and Arabic.


Graham said Muslims have a right to worship in America. He also said there are millions of “wonderful people in Islam that want to live their life and raise their children and they want to be free.” But he also said that Islam is not a peaceful religion.


However, the decision brought a firestorm of national criticism from a number of high profile leaders including Franklin Graham, the son of famed evangelist Billy Graham.

“This is a Methodist school and the money for that chapel was given by Christian people over the years so that the student body would have a place to worship the God of the Bible,” Graham told me in a telephone interview.

He had called for university donors to pull their funding – (and I suspect that had something to do with Duke’s decision.)
Instead, the prayers will be moved to outside the chapel.

“Members of the Muslim community will now gather on the quadrangle outside the Chapel, a site of frequent interfaith programs and activities,” Schoenfeld said.
The university did not say whether the Muslim call to prayer would be “moderately amplified” at the new location.

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[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

I know a couple alumni from Duke, talked to one of them yesterday. Seems there was a call to not send their kids there, stop contributing, etc., until this stopped. Guess what?

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/01/15/allahu-akbar-duke-university-to-broadcast-muslim-call-to-prayer-from-chapel/

Kinda puts more verification to this from three years ago doesn't it???


http://www.debatepolicy.com/showthread.php?36912-I-take-my-stand-you----Tyr

[LongTermGuy]

Ya...Duke changed their mind today...:cool: