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Muslim students at CU want prayer area
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| August 4, 2007
| Brittany Anas
Posted on 08/04/2007 9:06:13 AM PDT by george76
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To: woofer
positioned their prayer rugs and bodies to face northeast toward Mecca.They're facing the wrong direction.
Great circle route... Of course, I didn't know that Hell was somewhere NE of CU.
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posted on
08/04/2007 9:32:49 AM PDT
by
rock_lobsta
(Doing my part to warm up the planet... Because Bikinis Beat Burkas!)
To: george76
Shall Catholic students now ask for an onsite chapel for a Daily Mass?
Just asking?
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posted on
08/04/2007 9:34:52 AM PDT
by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: woofer; M. Espinola; jan in Colorado; ken21
LOL
to face northeast toward Mecca.
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posted on
08/04/2007 9:36:13 AM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: airborne
“Give them an old Army tent to set up outside.”
Give them nothing and tell them to pray somewhere else. Never in the history of this country have we had so many problems with any other group as we have with Islam. Their contribution to our society is absolutely zero. And we continue to give in. What the hell is wrong with us?
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posted on
08/04/2007 9:38:12 AM PDT
by
353FMG
To: 353FMG
The Lord works in mysterious ways.
To: pnh102
"
Of course we know exactly what would happen if any Christian group of students dared to ask the school for any similar accomodations."
Which is exactly what they (the Christian groups) need to do, so that they are all set up to sue when CU caves in to the Islamic demands.
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posted on
08/04/2007 9:40:29 AM PDT
by
YHAOS
To: george76
If they want a Muslim prayer area, they can buy themselves a house off-campus.
To: george76
Muslim students everywhere often want everything.
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posted on
08/04/2007 9:45:23 AM PDT
by
flowerplough
("Call Mr. Plow, that's my name. That name again is Mr. Plow!" -Homer, in a TV commercial.)
To: george76
dorm room or middle of field in great outdoors = quiet space for prayer.
works for all other religions in campus.
(non)problem solved
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posted on
08/04/2007 9:48:15 AM PDT
by
silverleaf
(Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
To: BlessedBeGod
a house off-campus...and out of the USA.
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posted on
08/04/2007 9:53:30 AM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: george76
I think that when you consider the matter objectively, people who join into any cult religion just have to accept that THEY and not US have to make certain sacrifices.
To: george76
To: george76
Go out behind the gym. Work it out yourself.
This constant demanding is must a method of disruption.
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posted on
08/04/2007 10:05:32 AM PDT
by
bannie
(The Good Guys cannot win when they're the only ones to play by the rules.)
To: george76; Lurker; woofer
Pull a string on a globe, or a line on google earth. A straight line between Colorado and Mecca crosses Canada and the southern portion of Greenland.
They are facing in the correct direction.
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posted on
08/04/2007 10:06:11 AM PDT
by
SC Swamp Fox
(Join our Folding@Home team (Team# 36120) keyword: folding)
To: woofer
They're facing the wrong direction. No, they're correct. Great circle distance and bearing from Boulder, CO to Mecca is 7642 miles at a bearing of 34.6 degrees true north. That's northeast.
To: george76
Muslim students took a break outside of their University of Colorado office, and in the hallway, positioned their prayer rugs and bodies to face northeast toward Mecca.
Following the Great Circle course I see.
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posted on
08/04/2007 10:09:32 AM PDT
by
Don Corleone
(Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
To: george76
Critics say Muslim students are getting preferential treatment as some schools nationwide including the University of Michigan at Dearborn, a campus that has a large Muslim population are building footbaths for students, who use them before prayer. I can't even begin to tell you how much this pi$$e$ me off.
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posted on
08/04/2007 10:13:25 AM PDT
by
econjack
To: SmoothTalker
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posted on
08/04/2007 10:17:45 AM PDT
by
ishabibble
(ALL-AMERICAN INFIDEL)
To: george76
Fine... put a fancy compass on the wall that moves in random directions every few seconds. Tell them the earth is rotating, and the direction to Mecca always changes because of that. They’ll spend so much time trying to bow in the right direction they might be too tired to do anything else. :-)
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posted on
08/04/2007 10:24:38 AM PDT
by
ken in texas
(come fold with us.... team #36120)
To: george76
footbaths for students, who use them before prayer.
Actually, all schools have them but the muslims just aren't aware of it. They're well marked too with a sign on the door that says "Men".........
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posted on
08/04/2007 10:25:40 AM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(If your cat was big enough it would probably eat you)
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