The Washington, D.C. Office of Human Rights confirmed that it is investigating allegations that Catholic University violated the human rights of Muslim students by not allowing them to form a Muslim student group and by not providing them rooms without Christian symbols for their daily prayers.
The investigation alleges that Muslim students “must perform their prayers surrounded by symbols of Catholicism – e.g., a wooden crucifix, paintings of Jesus, pictures of priests and theologians which many Muslim students find inappropriate.”
A spokesperson for the Office of Human Rights told Fox News they had received a 60-page complaint against the private university. The investigation, they said, could take as long a six months.
The complaint was filed by John Banzhaf, an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School. Banzhaf has been involved in previous litigation against the school involving the same-sex residence halls. He also alleged in his complaint involving Muslim students that women at the university were being discriminated against. You can read more on those allegations by clicking here.
Banzhaf said some Muslim students were particularly offended because they had to meditate in the school’s chapels “and at the cathedral that looms over the entire campus – the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.”
“It shouldn’t be too difficult somewhere on the campus for the university to set aside a small room where Muslims can pray without having to stare up and be looked down upon by a cross of Jesus,” he told Fox News.
A spokesman for Catholic University released a statement to Fox News indicating they had not seen any legal filings — but would respond once they do.
“Our faithfulness to our Catholic tradition has also made us a welcome home to students of other religions,” said Victor Nakas, associate vice president for public affairs. “No students have registered complaints about the exercise of their religions on our campus.”
4 comments:
Don't like the cross, then go to another college.
Muslims have to have it their way or no way.
Catholics cave in 5...4...3...
This story reminded me instantly of a debate between Robert Spencer and one Peter Kreeft in which Kreeft narrates a rather moonbattish anecdotal story involving the removal of some crosses from a college wall and a ficticious idealized muslim who somehow has his feelings hurt because of it.
At the time the story totally pegged my bullshit meter and now I see exactly why. Reality trumps fantasy based thinking every time.
Kreeft also seems to oddly view "secularism" as a bigger threat to western civilization than Islam itself, so I'd rather like to give him a swift wake-up kick in the nuts on that score as well.
Anyway, start in at the 35 minute mark if you want to get straigh to the meat of what I'm talking about. Kreeft is the perfect example of what I would call a suicidal liberal ideaist - willful blindness taken to a shameful extreme.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMtqCapeVRA
and the CHRISTian OUT _RAGE is where!!!
muslims are CONSTANTLY OUT_RAGED-
it is time for us to be OUT-RAGED!!!!
Carol-CS
“Our faithfulness to our Catholic tradition has also made us a welcome home to students of other religions,”
AND THAT'S HOW mUSLIMS PAY YOU!
IF THEY DON'T LIKE IT, WHAT ARE THEY DOING THERE?
It shouldn’t be too difficult somewhere on the campus for the university to set aside a small room where Muslims can pray
THIEVES!
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