Muslim call to prayer to sound at Duke University

[Dusty]

Originally Posted by abc_123

And, nevermind. Duke changed it's mind.

lol Jerry Boykin is from Wilson. He must have called and said he was on the way over.

[tonyz]

Originally Posted by Team Sergeant

“Duke remains committed to fostering an inclusive, tolerant and welcoming campus for all of its students,” Michael Schoenfeld, Duke's vice president for public affairs and government relations, said in a statement.

The irony is probably lost on this bureaucrat/lobbyist.

[alelks]

Unless I'm mistaken they took this from a satire site. I think it started here: http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/?p=29931

And then there is this: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/g...all-to-prayer/

[Richard]

I think this pretty much tells it like it is for those students today.

Richard

[Sigaba]

From The Atlantic's website. <<SOURCE>>

Omid Safi, who directs the Duke Islamic Studies Center, said he was disappointed but told me there had been "numerous verified instances of credible threats" against members of the university community.

"My disappointment is primarily directed toward people who find it acceptable to have recourse to violence, even the threat of violence, to make the point they want to make—particularly if they see these threats as being substantiated by their own religious conviction," Safi said. "We all know about the Muslim community having our crazies, but it seems like we don’t have a monopoly on it."

Safety of students in an understandable reason for caution, though Duke's half-measure seems unlikely to pacify malevolent objectors: There's still a public call to prayer, after all. Meanwhile, the threat of violence has triumphed over the right to religious expression. At a time when much of the world, appalled by the Charlie Hebdo massacre, is rightly standing up for the right to say things that offend Muslims, a peaceful gesture by Muslims has been quashed by a threat of violence—much of it emanating from Christians.

IMO, this is a hollow victory for those opposed to Duke University's plan.

[Dusty]

Originally Posted by Sigaba

From The Atlantic's website. <<SOURCE>>IMO, this is a hollow victory for those opposed to Duke University's plan.

Well, it's quite ironic to hear a muslim snivel about "threat(s) of violence".

[craigepo]

Why not just make all of the female students at Duke wear a veil? And how dare those campus restaurants serve pork? Homosexuals at Duke?!?! They deserve to die. How about some arranged marriages between muslim men and some 12-year-old girls?

What if, during the call to prayer, we put youtube videos of beheadings on a big flat screen? Maybe we could get some Boko Haram reenactors to walk us through some large-scale kidnappings of Christian kids? I wonder if a muslim law student might talk about how great it is that there are so many people in muslim prisons for having a faith other than islam, kind of a comparative government thingie?

Oh, could someone explain to me that tax on non-muslims again? And that whole "can't possess a Bible or Torah" deal. And the rules against Christian churches in muslim countries. And why women are treated as property. And why we can't doodle a picture of mohammed without getting some damned fatwa levied against us.

I have to wonder, with such a marvelous track record in the last few years, what were those people praying for? al Shabaab, anyone? al Queda? Caliphate?

Everyone (in a Judeo-Christian nation at least) is entitled to their own opinion. No one is entitled to their own facts.

[Snaquebite]

They claim they cancelled this because of a "real and credible security threat" YEAH...real and credible "security" to their bank account when all the alumni and donators threatened to stop the money.