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Duke University Reverses Muslim Prayer Decision
Duke University the school founded by Methodists and Quakers almost 200 years ago will sound the weekly Muslim call to prayer starting Friday, school officials said.
The call heard in every Muslim dominated country and in those in the process of being dominated. The chant is known as adhan or azan and will sound from the chapel bell tower for about 3 minuets every Friday at 3pm.
Members of the Duke Muslim Students Association will lead the prayer to the false god of Islam using “moderate volume”.
“The adhan is the call to prayer that brings Muslims back to their purpose in life, which is to worship god, and serves as a reminder to serve our brothers and sisters in humanity,” said Imam Adeel Zeb, Muslim chaplain at Duke. “The collective Muslim community is truly grateful and excited about Duke’s intentionality toward religious and cultural diversity.”
In majority Muslim countries across the globe, the adhan is broadcast from mosques and on television and radio stations five times a day to correspond with prayer times. On Fridays, the day of worship in Islam, sermons are also broadcast.
In the United States, amplified adhan exists in a handful of communities. But the number is quickly growing as the number of Muslim emigrants and converts grow.
Duke University has a long history of fostering political correctness and hypersensitivity, from Chick-Fil-A’s removal from campus, to hosting a the national Palestinian Solidarity Movement conference, and to canceling a pro-life event in their Women’s Center on campus.
Franklin Graham, on Facebook, condemned the move as religious pluralism and called on Duke donors to suspend their support.
Duke University announced today that they will have a Muslim call to prayer from their chapel bell tower every Friday. As Christianity is being excluded from the public square and followers of Islam are raping, butchering, and beheading Christians, Jews, and anyone who doesn’t submit to their Sharia Islamic law, Duke is promoting this in the name of religious pluralism. I call on the donors and alumni to withhold their support from Duke until this policy is reversed.
I went to Duke for 3 summers at a Course of Study School for the United Methodist Church. O loved it because, for a Methodist School, it held the Christian traditions and the gospel as sacred. A few years later, I was shocked when I heard that Duke was allowing gay marriages. And, now I read about this capitulation to pressure from a culture that is responsible for the invasions and the deaths of so many Christians. Try advancing Christianity openly in a university in Iran or Iraq and see what happens. Duke U…I am done with you.