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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Billy Graham blocks muslim call to prayer at Duke.

http://www.dukechronicle.com/articles/2015/01/15/duke-reverses-decision-hold-muslim-call-prayer-chapel-bell-tower#.VLhBppY8LCQ

He called for a donor boycott and the school caved. [/quote]

He hasn't blocked it. They're discussing.  No decision made.  [/quote]

The Chronicle reported that they are not doing it.[/quote]

Not according to the Duke spokesman on NPR.  [/quote]

Duke gets creepier by the day[/quote]

OH MY GOD THEY ARE ALLOWING ISLAM ON THE DUKE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS!

Wait a minute...   wasn't the Muslim Call To Prayer being proposed for the Duke bell tower, which is a Methodist chapel, whose bells have been used (and which continue to be used) to call Christians to prayer services going all the way back to the 1930s?

If you allow Christian services and calls to prayer on campus, how can you then in good faith NOT also allow other religious services and calls to prayer?

See the problem here?   (If you don't see the problem there, then just label yourself "hypocrite" and move on until you figure it out someday because you will have nothing relevant to offer)[/quote]

Sorry, don't see the problem.  While Duke is an independent school, it has ties to the Methodist church including members on the board.

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/uarchives/history/articles/methodist-church[/quote]

Then you are opposed to freedom of religion, and you are opposed to equity and equality and have no problem being a hypocrite, saying "what's good for the goose is NOT good for the gander."

Ok, gotcha.  Clearly no further deep thought or intellectual grasp to be had from you.[/quote]

You don't get something:  Duke is not a public institution.   It is a private institution.  As such, it can be a Methodist school if it wants to.  Or a Jewish school, or a Muslim school.  That's not about freedom of religion.   Personally, I'm fine with them doing Muslim call to prayer.  If they have enough Muslim students for that to make sense, go for it.  But there's no "freedom of religion" element to this.  Maybe you should learn basic constitutional law before you spout off on it.[/quote]

Duke CHOSE to host a Muslim Call To Prayer, but have now backed out of it because of public outcry from right wing nutjobs.  So apparently they have no say in it?[/quote]

Like any other private institution, it can change its mind.   And it's composed of many different constituencies.  Some may with an issue one day and lose it the next.  I don't agree with their decision, but it has NOTHING to do with "freedom of religion".  They are not a government entity.[/quote]

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