Posted on 12/17/2007 10:06:29 AM PST by mojito
Last week, I visited a Muslim place of worship. A schedule for Islam's five daily prayers was posted at the entrance, near a sign requesting that shoes be removed. Inside, a barrier divided men's and women's prayer space, an arrow informed worshippers of the direction of Mecca, and literature urged women to cover their faces.
Sound like a mosque?
The place I'm describing is the "meditation room" at Normandale Community College, a 9,200-student public institution in Bloomington.
Until recently, the room was the school's only usable racquetball court. College administrators converted the court into a meditation room when construction forced closure of the previous meditation room.
A row of chest-high barriers splits the room into sex-segregated sections. In the smaller, enclosed area for women sits a pile of shawls and head-coverings. Literature titled "Hijaab [covering] and Modesty" was prominently placed there, instructing women on proper Islamic behavior.
They should cover their faces and stay at home, it said, and their speech should not "be such that it is heard."
"Enter into Islaam completely and accept all the rulings of Islaam," the tract read in part. "It should not be that you accept what entertains your desires and leave what opposes your desires; this is from the manners of the Jews."
"[T]he Jews and the Christians" are described as "the enemies of Allaah's religion." The document adds: "Remember that you will never succeed while you follow these people."
Normandale's administration is facilitating the room's Islamization. The college's building crew erected the barrier separating men's and women's sections, according to Ralph Anderson, dean of student affairs. College officials also posted signs at the room's entrance asking students to remove shoes -- a Muslim custom before prayers. This was "basically a courtesy to Muslim students," Anderson said....
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See also: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1940634/posts
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1940621/posts
It’s like deja-vu, all over again. (Yogi Berra)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1940634/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1940621/posts
Liberalism’s primary enemy is Christianity.
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
The ACLU must be taking time off to celebrate the “winter break” holidays. Surely they would not condone this segregated prayer room on a public school campus.
I’m just being mean. Too much time on my hands. ;-)
So true; I just pray I live long enough to see the Muslim’s stone one of the Marxist Anti-Christian Atheist bastards to death, slowly, on CNN, ever so agonizingly slowly. Man that’s going to be a really, really good day!
What is the administration thinking? This is a job for campus security.
Liberalism’s primary enemy is Christianity.Wrong! Liberalism's primary enemy is human freedom. Freedom of religion is just a subset of that.
re: double post. Thanks for posting it anyway!
It appears we have a few freepers with nothing to do but look for duplicate postings and then point out the errors of our ways...
Some of miss other post when they drop, literally, off the first couple pages of new threads.
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“Tolerance” is not the same as accomodation to the point of promotion. Particularly in a publicly funded buidling, there should not be facilities, equipment etc. set aside for religious purposes. That is state promotion of religion. If individuals wish to practice religious ceremonies of worship in a public building, then it should be tolerated as long as they do not encroach on others rights - such as ingress or egress or reasonable use of bathroom facilities for the hygienic purposes for which they are designed.
“I just pray I live long enough to see the Muslim’s stone”
I look forward to seeing a beer stoned Muslim peeing on Jimmy Carter’s Grave. But that is just me!
Here we call them "restrooms" and "bathrooms", or the slightly more vulgar "sh***ers".
Mark for later
could somebody file a lawsuit to close this?
UPDATE: Though no media outlet in the Twin cities will report this story on their web pages or in print....I’ve heard on two different local radio outlets today that the ACLU (yes, the ACLU) has said that if Normandale Community College doesn’t get this sorted, right now, they will sue...
(Cue the flying pigs....)
Oink oink flap flap flap
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