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NYC OK'S PRAYER IN SCHOOL - - FOR MUSLIMS
NewsMax | Thursday Nov. 15, 2001 | Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff

Posted on 11/16/2001 1:15:48 PM PST by truther

NYC OK's Prayer in School -- for Muslims

That anti-religion bastion of political correctness, the New York City public school system, has quietly sanctioned prayer in schools -- but only of you're a Muslim who wants to worship during Ramadan.

In a talk radio exclusive, New York's WABC Radio has been airing reports on the school system's special program for Muslims for weeks.

Late Wednesday, Schools Chancellor Harold Levy finally confirmed that the religious double standard indeed exists. "Christian parents would probably love to have a place where their children could pray during school hours," WABC newsman George Weber said Thursday. "They don't... But the Muslim kids are getting their very own prayer room in New York City public schools."

"The New York City public school system is going to accommodate Muslim students allowing them space for prayer" during the five week Muslim holy season of Ramadan, reported Weber's partner, Babita Hariani.

"In a statement, though, school's Chancellor Harold Levy adds the prayer 'cannot interfere with classes or infringe on other students'", she explained.

That's not exactly what the Chancellor's office told the New York Post, which reported Thursday that Levy spokeswoman Margie Feinberg told them Muslim students will be allowed to cut classes in order to pray and then reschedule them later.


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: christianlist; hughhewitt; islam; publicschools
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To: truther
I watched a report on local NYC news LAST WEEK where they TOOK a group of public HIGH SCHOOL kids to a mosque!

To learn the diversity and the culture, but it was clearly a RELIGIOUS EVENT....the GIRLS were required to COVER their HEADS and they read from the KORAN!

THIS is PUBLIC SCHOOL! Would they ever have such a trip to a CHURCH or TEMPLE?

this is the hypocrisy!

We were stunned watching it!

21 posted on 11/16/2001 1:16:03 PM PST by SunnyUsa
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To: Atticus
Public praying isn't what it's all about for me. Praying is between God and me. It's private. I don't much like this idea that it's OK for one religion to pray and it's not OK for others.

Either everyone can pray or worship as their beliefs dictate or no one should be able to. Everyone being able to pray or worship in school, could open a can of worms, as there are enough crackpots out there that might worship pornography or beer farts for that matter. Imagine that in our schools? Sheesh!

I think these days with the sense of patriotism in America is the time to make some changes to the PC thinking that's been made popular. Let's get back to what America is really about, and quit letting some academic type make up things for us to live by.

We made it for a couple hundred years without "PC" correctness. It's time for some common sense to rule the day again.

22 posted on 11/16/2001 1:16:03 PM PST by dstog
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To: truther
Once again, leftists violate their ostensible "principles" when the ends serve to immediately challenge the dominant social structures. Mascotting at its finest.
23 posted on 11/16/2001 1:16:04 PM PST by Mr. Bungle
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To: ikanakattara
Bump!
24 posted on 11/16/2001 1:16:04 PM PST by EdReform
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To: LarryLied
Alittle truth here:

Since the Pledge of Allegiance and The Lord's Prayer are not allowed in most public schools anymore because the word "God" is mentioned...a kid in Arizona wrote the attached NEW School prayer. I liked it....

Now I sit me down in school Where praying is against the rule For this great nation under God Finds mention of Him very odd.

If Scripture now the class recites, It violates the Bill of Rights. And anytime my head I bow Becomes a Federal matter now.

Our hair can be purple, orange or green, That's no offense; it's a freedom scene. The law is specific, the law is precise. Prayers spoken aloud are a serious vice.

For praying in a public hall Might offend someone with no faith at all. In silence alone we must meditate, God's name is prohibited by the state.

We're allowed to cuss and dress like freaks, And pierce our noses, tongues and cheeks. They've outlawed guns, but FIRST the Bible. To quote the Good Book makes me liable.

We can elect a pregnant Senior Queen, And the 'unwed daddy,' our Senior King. It's "inappropriate" to teach right from wrong, We're taught that such "judgments" do not belong.

We can get our condoms and birth controls, Study witchcraft, vampires and totem poles. But the Ten Commandments are not allowed, No word of God must reach this crowd.

It's scary here I must confess, When chaos reigns the school's a mess. So, Lord, this silent plea I make: Should I be shot; My soul please take!

Amen

25 posted on 11/16/2001 1:16:07 PM PST by yoe
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To: gcraig
"...pray without ceasing..."

Seems like Christians are mandated by our holy writings to also pray throughout the day.

...oh...that's right...restricting the Moos would be hatefuland inseeennnnnsssative...restricting the Christians is Constitutional. Silly me.
/bad attitude

26 posted on 11/16/2001 1:16:10 PM PST by woollyone
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To: *Christian_list
*Christian_list bump... (Free Republic Bump List Register)
27 posted on 11/16/2001 1:16:11 PM PST by EdReform
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To: truther
"Schools Chancellor Harold Levy . . . Levy spokeswoman Margie Feinberg."

I could almost understand how Islamic intruders could get away with this nonsense if the ethnic/religious background of most of NYC's public school teachers were not Jewish. Are these people so blind that they do not see what happens when Moslems are allowed a foothold in a non-Moslem country? Have they no relatives in Israel? Are they so self-destructive that they want to nurture the cells of Islamist supporters who will eventually provide recruits and funds for the Jihad against, among others, the Jews?

Or is it just that they hate Christians more than they fear Moslems?

28 posted on 11/16/2001 1:16:11 PM PST by Goetz_von_Berlichingen
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To: yoe
bump
29 posted on 11/16/2001 1:16:11 PM PST by dtom
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To: truther
UFB
30 posted on 11/16/2001 1:16:12 PM PST by garycooper
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To: truther
This is a disgrace. Its also a perfect opportunity for a lawsuit, where is the ACLU on this one ?
31 posted on 11/16/2001 1:16:12 PM PST by culpeper
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To: truther
Well of course. The Muslims have now officially reached "Victim Status" and as such, are now subject to special rights.
34 posted on 11/16/2001 1:16:13 PM PST by LoneGOPinCT
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To: Egg
We've always known that the only religion not tolerated in the US is the Christian religion; this is just a shift from tacit to overt discrimination.

Exactly. When these bozos say "separation of church and state" they mean "separation of Christian church and state." There's a lesson to be had in the fact that liberals fear only one faith. I know what that lesson is and many of you do, too.

MM

35 posted on 11/16/2001 1:16:13 PM PST by MississippiMan
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To: MississippiMan
When these bozos say "separation of church and state" they mean "separation of Christian church and state."

Of cource, this is not separation of mosque and state. "Mosque" is something else than "church".

36 posted on 11/16/2001 1:16:15 PM PST by A. Pole
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To: woollyone
would be hatefuland inseeennnnnsssative...Good morning Savage...BWAHAHAHA!!!!

FMCDH

37 posted on 11/16/2001 1:16:24 PM PST by nothingnew
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To: truther
bump
38 posted on 11/16/2001 1:16:28 PM PST by VOA
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To: NC Conservative
Because God is a "dictator," and they don't want ANYONE telling THEM what to do! They have their own agenda! Christians should rise up while the iron is hot and strike at this latest punch in the nose.
40 posted on 11/16/2001 1:16:38 PM PST by Marysecretary
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