Posted on 02/21/2015 10:32:28 AM PST by skeptoid
BISMARCK – Republican leaders in the North Dakota House of Representatives said they canceled the opening prayer by a Muslim on Ash Wednesday because some members thought it was more appropriate to have a Christian deliver the invocation. Dr. Nadim Koleilat, board president of the Bismarck Muslim Community Center, ended up giving the invocation in the Senate instead of the House.
Comments made on the District 24 Republicans’ Facebook page – including one posted Monday that called Koleilat’s planned appearances in the House on Wednesday and in the Senate next week “political correctness at its worst” – were brought to House members’ attention Wednesday morning by a district resident who urged lawmakers to “oppose the prejudice, intolerance and ignorance that is encompassed within these posts.”
District 24 Rep. Dwight Kiefert, R-Valley City, was among those who objected to having a non-Christian deliver the prayer on Ash Wednesday.
“I mean, you had representatives on the floor with ash on their foreheads commemorating the day. And so then you’re going to force them to listen to a prayer that they don’t agree with? It wasn’t very well thought out, I don’t think,” he said. “If it would have been a different day, maybe it would have been better.”
Just make muslims the national religion. This is insanity.
I’ll invite them to National Beheading Day
February 30th appears to be open...
He (it) can pray on the twelth of never.
Him, and the prophet he rode in on.
Sometimes it pays to remind people that Our Lord died for our sins, and was resurrected for our salvation, long centuries before Satan concocted the false religion of Islam.
There must be three Muslims and a couple dozen Catholics in all of North Dakota.
For them, Ash Wednesday Day was a few days after Mt. St. Helens erupted.
Almost as ‘bigoted’ as if they’d ask an atheist to say a prayer on Ash Wednesday, and then realized the contradictory nature of it as well as the insult to Christians.
they’ll reschedule him to Halloween
How about we have the Grand Poo-Bah of the KKK do the invocation for all MLK Jr. festivities next year?
Is EVERYONE insane? Yeesh!
Simple solution: he can present the opening prayer as long as he consents to have his forehead signed with ashes in the form of a cross (it was *Ash Wednesday* after all). And no need to make it specific to him - whoever leads the Ash Wednesday prayer would have the same requirement.
I suspect he’d prefer to be boiled in pig fat than have his forehead marked with a cross in ashes.
Brain dead elected officials, just clueless, or don't give a crap?
Or do they leave decisions like this up to the Politically Correct bureaucrats and minions on their staffs?
“Republican leaders in the North Dakota House of Representatives said they canceled the opening prayer by a Muslim on Ash Wednesday because some members thought it was more appropriate to have a Christian deliver the invocation. “
No effing kidding!
“...some members thought it was more appropriate to have a Christian deliver the invocation”
Only SOME members thought that? WTF is wrong with these insane pols?
More “appropriate”
NO guts!
Christian organizations had better realize that, to ask a Muslim to do the invocation, would be an extreme blasphemy.
Christians and Muslims DO NOT pray to the same god.
Christians, if they are serious in practicing their religion, had better re-think the First Commandment and the term ‘false gods’.
Uh, Achmed? We have openings on the Seventh of Never, the Eleventeenth of Roseberry, and our St. Swithin’s Day Ham and Bacon Breakfast. Any of those work for ya?
“Republican leaders in the North Dakota House of Representatives said they canceled the opening prayer by a Muslim on Ash Wednesday because some members thought it was more appropriate to have a Christian deliver the invocation”
Good. But whose idiotic idea was this in the first place? I want names.
I'd have to start cold and blind to try to find the specifics.
Will the Muslims approve of Christian prays for Eid?
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