Liberal Nutjob says crosses at Catholic school offensive, prevent Muslim prayers
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2011/11/01 04:40:27
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Complaint says crosses at Catholic school offensive, prevent Muslim prayers
posted by Rob Kerby, Senior Editor |
Catholic Unversity President John Garvey standing in front of one of the many campus crosses
(Photo by Rafael Crisostomo)
Crosses in every room at Washingon D.C.’s Catholic University of America are a human rights violation that prevent Muslim students from praying.
That’s the complaint to the Washington, D.C. Office of Human Rights filed by a professor from rival George Washington University across town.
GWU Law School Professor John Banzhaf takes the Catholic institution to task for acting “probably with malice” against Muslim students in a 60-page complaint that cites “offensive” Catholic imagery all over the Catholic school, which he says hinder Muslims from praying.
Baffled Catholic University officials say they have never received a complaint from any of the schools Muslim students.
Banzhaf, who already has a pending lawsuit against the university over ending its policy of allowing mixed-gender dormitories and has a history of filing civil rights suits on such topics as childhood obesity and smoking, filed the complaint alleging that Muslim students are not given their own prayer rooms.
He alleges that the university, “does not provide space – as other universities do – for the many daily prayers Muslim students must make, forcing them instead to find temporarily empty classrooms where they are often surrounded by Catholic symbols which are incongruous to their religion,” according to the Tower, Catholic University’s student newspaper.
The complaint further objects that Muslims must pray at the school’s chapels “and at the cathedral that looms over the entire campus – the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.”
A spokesperson for the human rights office said they are investigating Banzhaf’s complaint — and the inquiry could take as long as six months.
“This attorney is really turning civil rights on its head,” observed Patrick Reilly of the Cardinal Newman Socity. “He’s using the law for his own discrimination against the Catholic institution and essentially saying Catholic University cannot operate according to Catholic principles.”
The complaint is absurd, writes Thomas Peters on the website CatholicVote.
“Can you imagine a law professor helping Catholic students to sue a Jewish or Muslim school to demand that the schools install crosses, remove their religious symbols, and allow the Catholics to construct a chapel on their property?” wrote Peters. “Can you imagine the argument being that Jewish and Muslims schools using their religious symbols and following their faith traditions would be described in the legal brief as “offensive”?!
“Normally I would have confidence that this lawsuit will be deemed without merit, but the way things are going these days, I just can’t be sure anymore. Simply incredible.”
Top Opinion
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Is this man out of his mind? He's not even a Student.
+13Damn, let's get a group together and go to the Mosque's that teach and file a lawsuit to remove the daily prayers and teachings and of course the offensive
its not a MUSLIM SCHOOL- or BERKLEY!!!!
its supported(donations) by catholics for people of same faith to get a catholic based education.
NOT MUSLIM based !!! either accept where you are , be thankful, or go play in the toilet !
this guy needs to stick a cactus plant up his queer rear and STFU!!!
God. No one have seen God and they don't even know who God is. Why? Because if you don't know Jesus how on earth can you relate or know who is God and pray for Him? These people are absolutely nothing but wicked minded and so despicable to deal with. Nonetheless, I would assume they are praying for Satan? Why because if the crosses offended them it also offended Satan. So, I would guess that they carry with them the spirit of evil. I mean who could be so hateful toward a cross? Yes. only Satan and his children who else. They need to be expel from this University for malicious and offending Catholic policy and belief. Muslim do not rule the University nor do they have the right to complaint against them when the University was there long before they came along to spew their hateful propaganda. Does it make sense to anyone? If not, that OK......Peace be with you
to whom you have submitted your self!!!!
if yes than you and to whom you have submitted your self is one and the same
NAKED.....
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ya thats true because what you call freedom is nothing but your nakedness
which doesn't make any change in you people because you all r naked from body and your mind which means that you people are SHAMELESS and CHARACTER tooooo....!!!!!
this is just the promised testing of our faith by the evil ones - be strong and dont let them shake you
This crap has been and is getting old.
I'm sick of this effing crap. Everyone wants America to bend over and kiss their asses, I mean beliefs. But not without first undermining and sticking their noses up at everything we believe.