Duke’s Craven Cave to Islamophobia

[cbayer]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/01/16/duke-s-craven-cave-to-islamophobia.html

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1.16.15
Michael Schulson

The university’s attempt at religious pluralism brought out the worst in people who equate the peaceful Muslims on campus with the barbarians of ISIS.

Earlier this week, Duke University announced that it would allow its Muslim community to broadcast the adhan, or traditional call-to-prayer, from the university’s iconic chapel tower. The adhan takes just a couple minutes. It would only be delivered from the tower once a week, on Friday afternoons, for the jummah prayer service.

The decision, one Duke dean wrote in the Raleigh News & Observer, was part of the “larger commitment to religious pluralism that is at the heart of Duke’s mission.”

That mission, presumably, has not changed. But Thursday night, Duke changed its mind about the adhan.

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[CurtEastPoint]

1. Prompted by none other that Billy Graham's holy spawn, Franklin.

http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/franklin-graham-blasts-duke-university-for-muslim-call-to-prayer/

[cbayer]

2. Yep. Letting him win this makes me sick.

[Fred Sanders]

3. The death threats the administration must have received...from Christians?

[cbayer]

8. Most likely, led by RW fundamentalist bigots.

[skepticscott]

7. His actions are purely political

They have nothing to do with religion, as we're all aware. My suspicion is that it's just a land grab, like always.

[Fred Sanders]

4. So Christian terrorism is met with capitulation and silence by the media? Vaguely familiar.....

[YarnAddict]

10. "Christian terrorism?"

What he did was have donors threaten to pull their funding.

To compare that with what happened in Paris trivializes the deaths of twelve good people at the hands of vicious terrorists.

Comparison: Fail.

[cbayer]

11. Actually, some sources have reported threats of violence.

[YarnAddict]

12. Some sources?

Got links?

[cbayer]

13. Sure. New York Times and WaPo ok?

Duke University has canceled plans for Muslim students to sound the traditional call to prayer from the school’s iconic chapel tower amid threats of violence and a backlash from anti-Muslim groups, conservatives and Christian leaders.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/16/us/amid-threats-duke-moves-muslim-call-to-prayer.html

A school spokesman and a Duke Muslim leader said that a serious and credible security threat played a role in the decision.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2015/01/15/duke-university-reverses-decision-cancels-weekly-muslim-call-to-prayer/

[Fred Sanders]

5. "A slap to the Christian face"? WTF does that even mean? Was he foaming at the mouth with

religious indignation and blasphemy?

[CurtEastPoint]

6. Shakin' that Wholly Bobble.

[edhopper]

9. It's obvious

that the next step after allowing the call to prayer would be Campus wide Sharia law.