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Prayer service angers Muslims
The Washington Times ^ | 3-28-05 | Zinie Chen Sampson

Posted on 03/28/2005 11:03:37 AM PST by JZelle

RICHMOND -- Virginia Commonwealth University has tightened security because of threats against a faculty member who led a mixed-sex prayer service that drew harsh criticism throughout the Muslim world. The precautionary measures were taken the week after Islamic studies professor Amina Wadud led 80 to 100 men and women in Muslim prayer at a church in New York. Muslim clerics denounced her actions and some have suggested that it was part of a plot to corrupt Islam, which requires separate religious services for men and women.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: islam; koranimals; mosque; muslim; muslimamericans; muslimwomen; rop; vcu; virginia; women
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Wonder if NOW will take up the women's cause?
1 posted on 03/28/2005 11:03:41 AM PST by JZelle
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To: JZelle

LOL....


2 posted on 03/28/2005 11:04:15 AM PST by anniegetyourgun
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The Religion Of Peace TM gets offended by progress. What's interesting is the silence of liberals. If Christians exhibited such blatant sexist bias, you can be sure our legacy media would be all over them.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
3 posted on 03/28/2005 11:06:10 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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What doesn't anger the muslims?
4 posted on 03/28/2005 11:06:14 AM PST by CzarNicky (The problem with bad ideas is that they seemed like good ideas at the time.)
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it was part of a plot to corrupt Islam

Just how do you corrupt something that is so....oh never mind.

5 posted on 03/28/2005 11:06:54 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - They want to die for Islam, and we want to kill them.)
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To: CzarNicky

Killing infidels. That's about it.


6 posted on 03/28/2005 11:07:07 AM PST by G32
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To: CzarNicky

Complete and total submission.


7 posted on 03/28/2005 11:07:29 AM PST by Guillermo (Vote for Pedro)
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To: CzarNicky

"What doesn't anger the muslims?"


Camels. Lots of camels.


8 posted on 03/28/2005 11:08:34 AM PST by Blzbba (Don't hate the player - hate the game!)
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What doesn't anger the muslims?

Good point!

9 posted on 03/28/2005 11:12:01 AM PST by yankeedame ("Born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.")
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To: JZelle

Y'know, it's funny. I seem to recall this offending me...

 


10 posted on 03/28/2005 11:16:13 AM PST by Fintan (Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.)
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To: 2banana

I feel ya; I definitely feel. As if using a whole generation of youths to strap on bombs and kill people isnt corrupting enough!! The need to get their heads out of their camel's @$$!!


11 posted on 03/28/2005 11:17:13 AM PST by Jeffery T.
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EXCELLENT point.

Who cares if they are angry? We'll find someone else to drive our cabs and sell us big gulps.


12 posted on 03/28/2005 11:30:00 AM PST by gruffwolf
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To: Fintan

You are probably a patriotic American.

Your views no longer count.

This is the New World Order.


13 posted on 03/28/2005 11:30:26 AM PST by sarah_f ( Know Islam, Know Terror.)
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To: JZelle

Perhaps the ACLU would care to jump in on this. Right up their alley.


14 posted on 03/28/2005 11:30:41 AM PST by ANGGAPO
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Google search results: 471,000 hits for angry muslims


15 posted on 03/28/2005 11:39:32 AM PST by OK
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I saw a report on how some politicians in the Netherlands are under constant guard because they voiced concerns over how Muslim immigrants to their country refuse to assilimate. It didn't sound like the politicians were saying Muslims should give up their backgrounds completely but were just saying that when someone chooses to move into a country they should at least feel bound to (gasp) follow that country's laws and not demand that the country rearrange its whole culture for them. Many immigrants hold on to some of their customs and language, but things like "honor killings" demonstrate that many Muslim immigrants go further and flat-out refuse to abide by the laws of the place they chose.

This article reminds me of that. This service was in America; anyone offended by it didn't have to go. Yet the Muslim reaction to it is violent.


16 posted on 03/28/2005 11:42:15 AM PST by VRWCisme
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was part of a plot to corrupt Islam, which requires separate religious services for men and women

And requires the death of anyone who doesn't strictly follow its teachings.....

Sounds to me, Islam doesn't need corrupting, its beyond corrupt already.

17 posted on 03/28/2005 11:44:56 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: anniegetyourgun; Fintan; Happy2BMe; F15Eagle
allah akbar !! muslim men get all the fun ......

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dhimmitude ------- live it or fight it

18 posted on 03/28/2005 11:46:49 AM PST by Tuba Guy (Imagine Hillareah in the White House and BJ in the UN.....they do)
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To: Former Dodger; Fred Nerks; jan in Colorado; ariamne; yer gonna put yer eye out; ...

TROP alert ping


20 posted on 03/28/2005 12:09:14 PM PST by swordfish71 (There is no storm like the PERFECT ROVIAN STORM!)
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