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Duke University: Muslim Brotherhood group to chant Muslim call to prayer over loudspeakers weekly

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Duke2This “connects the university to national trends in religious accommodation.” Indeed it does, but those trends all go in one direction only: when will we hear church bells ringing from Muslim universities, as a gesture of religious pluralism? And how appropriate is it to broadcast “Allahu akbar” over loudspeakers on the Duke campus, when on numerous occasions jihad terrorists have screamed exactly that while committing mass murder? And then there is the involvement of the Muslim Students Association. Discover The Networks reports (thanks to Pamela Geller) that “the Muslim Students Association of the United States and Canada, or MSA (also known as MSA National), was established mainly by members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in January 1963 at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Nyack College theologian Larry A. Poston writes that ‘many of the founding members of this agency [MSA] were members of, or had connections to,’ the Muslim Brotherhood or Jamaat-i-Islami….MSA speakers routinely spew anti-Semitic libels and justify the genocide against the Jews which is promoted by Islamic terrorist organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah and by the government of Iran….” The Muslim Brotherhood, according to a captured internal document that names the MSA as one of its arms in the U.S., is dedicated in its own words to “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within, and sabotaging its miserable house.” Would any other organization that is dedicated to “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within, and sabotaging its miserable house” get this much respect from Duke University?

“Muslim call to prayer to sound at Duke University,” WRAL, January 13, 2015:

Durham, N.C. — A weekly call to prayer for Muslims will be heard at Duke University starting Friday, school officials said.

Members of the Duke Muslim Students Association will chant the call, known as adhan or azan, from the Duke Chapel bell tower each Friday at 1 p.m. The call to prayer will last about three minutes and be “moderately amplified,” officials said in a statement Tuesday.

“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.

“This opportunity represents a larger commitment to religious pluralism that is at the heart of Duke’s mission,” said Christy Lohr Sapp, the chapel’s associate dean for religious life. “It connects the university to national trends in religious accommodation.”

The announcement by Duke drew criticism from Franklin Graham, president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan’s Purse. He took to social media on Wednesday to express his views and urge Duke donors to suspend support.

“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,” he said on his Facebook page.

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    • I am actually surprised that there aren’t more of them doing that. Most universities really are a nest of liberal propaganda under the guise of phony intellectual openness to “inclusion”. I attended university for six years, I can’t believe my brain remained (mostly) sane nonetheless.

      • well if Duke allows muslim prayers over the loud speaker, they must then allow the ringing of bells like a CLARION. I understand muslims LOVE the sounds of Christian bells being rung!

      • Ringing a bell hardly equates to the Muslim call to prayer. Their call to prayer is a prayer in itself. This is what the adhan says:
        Allah is Great, Allah is Great
        I bear witness that there is no divinity but Allah
        I bear witness that Muhammad is Allah’s Messenger
        I bear witness that Muhammad is Allah’s Messenger
        Hasten to the prayer, Hasten to the prayer
        Hasten to real success, Hasten to real success,
        Allah is Great, Allah is Great
        There is no divinity but Allah.

        This is what a bell says:
        Ding, dong, ding, dong.

        For the purposes of religious diversity I would say that the prayers of other religions should be broadcast for three minutes also.

  2. This is insane. I looked up the Duke University coat of arms and there is a cross right in the middle. It is only now a matter of time for that to be removed in the name of “religious pluralism” and “religious accommodation”. As Robert points out — this is only a one-way street as far as moslems are concerned.

    “Allahu akbar” means Allah is greater. As in, Allah is greater than your god. Is this what Duke is going to have amplified from the towers? The literal call to jihad against the infidels. The massive ignorance and delusion of the decision makers at Duke is mind-boggling.

    • Most definitely at some point it would have to be removed. Just remember in the beginning of Obama’s Presidency, it may be before he took the oath of office, he spoke at a church and made them cover all the crosses. I am a Jew. If I were speaking in a Church I would expect there to be crosses and it would never even occur to me the weirdness that goes through Obama’s mind. He must be a closet Muslim since only a Muslim would be so insolent and intolerant.

      • This reply is for commenter JACK HOLAN — just in case it gets bumped down away from his post.

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        • Imam Obama says:

          “Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism; it is an important part of promoting peace.”

          “It is important for western countries to avoid impeding Muslim citizens from practicing religion as they see fit.”

          “And I consider it part of my responsibility as president of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam, wherever they appear.”

          “We are no longer a Christian nation…”

          “The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans.”

          “Let there be no doubt- Islam is a part of America.”

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      • I’m an atheist, and the last thing that I would do is insist that somebody would cover up crosses at a church I’d be speaking at! That whole thing is just crazy. I did not know that about Obama. How can anybody not recognize that he is a moslem at this point? You are absolutely right — no person of any other religious faith, nor any atheist or agnostic, would do that. Only a moslem. Or a vampire — LOL. But then again, they’re pretty much the same thing.

      • Obama did that?… surely he works out of a principality of darkness.. he reminds me of a vampire..they fear the Light… they seduce for blood and will do anything to destroy the Cross and the Truth in the Lamb Crucified and resurrected.

      • That was at Georgetown University, a CATHOLIC and Jesuit University. He made them cover up the crosses and the IHS (Iesus Hominum Salvator – Jesus, Savior of men,) over the doors and in is the emblem of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) where he was speaking. I guess he didn’t like the “optics?”

    • WHAT THEY should do if the do the call to prayer. for the rest of the day play GOSPEL MUSIC AND BY ALL MEANS HAVE LOTS OF SINGING AND PRAISE TO OUR TRUE GOD AND THE SON JESUS CHRIST.. AND SEE HOW LONG THE PEACE WILL LAST.

  3. Let me guess: if someone objects he/she can expect charges of “islamophobia”, “racism” or “bigotry”.

  4. For those of us who think the Duke chapel’s associate dean for religious life — Christy Lohr Sapp (mentioned in the posting above) — could use a reality check regarding the Quran’s attitude toward Christians and Jews, here is a contact path :

    https://chapel.duke.edu/contact/staff

    ———————-

  5. Ironic, while the entire Islamic world is busily comitting genocide, and ethic cleansing of Christians as part of their religious duty to make 8:39 “all religion for Allah”, Christians at Duke invite Muslims to turn their Cathederal into a Mosque in the name of diversity. Stupid.

  6. Make a statement with your wallets. If I were a parent with a child at Duke, I would seriously consider pulling my kid out. Tuition is too high to put up with that nonsense.

  7. In the spirit of fairness the university should issue all non muslim students hearing protection. Then on Fridays they would not have to listen to the devils call.

  8. The argument seems to be that, since we have church bells in the West, our muslim friends can come across and ‘do their thing’ in their own way as a matter of democratic right. Well, there are some differences. The public ‘call to prayer’ is a blatantly specific verbal public propaganda or mind-control device, rather like official loudspeakers on street corners pumping out party propaganda in certain communist countries. The sound of a bell on the other hand is an anonymous audible public signal that has no specific connotations apart from for those to whom it might be relevant but otherwise remains simply an environmental feature without any particular ‘meaning’ and therefore need not intrusive on our consciousness. Thus, bells are have been associated with schools, public clocks, emergency services, etc. etc., and not just religious applications. And it’s not even true to say that there is any definite link between ‘church’ and ‘bell’ – here in the UK Anglican churches might have a bell or two, but certainly not RC or non-conformist buildings. Any demand for a public broadcast ‘call to prayer’ is nothing short of an ignorant, insolent and presumptious intrusion that has no precedent in Western society and should not be tolerated.

  9. Oh yeah, this is a great idea. Out of curiosity what percentage of the students at Duke are Muslim? One percent? Ten percent? I suspect it’s well below anything I could imagine. So what’s next up for Duke? Issuing prayer rugs at freshman orientation? Foot baths in every dorm? I’m sick and tired of our government leaders and now universities kowtowing to Muslim demands. I have demands as well. I demand that Muslim immigration to the U.S. be halted immediately. I demand that mosques and Muslim schools be searched for Jihadist propaganda.

  10. As Homer Simpson once said: “I feel like I’m living inside a cuckoo clock!”

  11. Are there any Jewish students from Israel or Somali Christian students walking the campus? They should immediately demand that the call to prayer could cause them great grief and stress if not PTSD. When all the Islamic jihadi’s crimes come to light Duke should be ashamed….that is not diversity but a call to ignore terror. The staff needs to consult Islamic text and lean about sharia.,know the truth. cl

  12. Hopefully there will be a lawsuit placed against Duke, and it costs them Millions !

  13. If the ACLU isn’t over this like flies on honey, they should be sued for all they’re worth along with Duke. If Duke does not stop this, they should lose all of its federal funding for violating the 1st Amendment of itsstudents. Parents should sue Duke on the same grounds.

    Or, let them give equal time to every religious groups and Hormel – the largest manufacturer of pork-based products in the US.

    I would also look for the OFF switch to make sure not a word of this illegal act makes it to the speakers.

  14. The problem begins with the complete inability of a large part of the global Muslim community to dissociate religion from other causes in explaining the motivation behind Western lifestyles and actions. Thus religion becomes THE explanation for everything they disagree with and what is more that the West is DELIBERATELY

    • Daniel Greenfield wrote an excellent article on this under the title ”
      The Importance of Blasphemy
      January 14, 2015 by Daniel Greenfield

      This explains a lot about what is going on and why…even for someone who knows what islam is all about…like most posters to this site.

  15. I wonder how many millions were taken by Duke from Saudi Arabia to start this Islamic practice in Southern Baptist(?) Christina University?? Money can buy all these infidels who have this false sense of providing “equal opportunity” to to all those “peaceful” Muslims!! Morons!!!

    • I will suggest all American Duke Alumni to stop donating to Duke University funds. Money talks and they may come to their senses!!

  16. Funny ……I love your comment Jo Shmo….I too feel like I am living in a cuckoo clock!!
    “Jo Shmo “touched my heart…my dad use to talk about “Jo Shmo “all the time and he was funny too……still don’t know who that is….an old comic strip? Great website and really information. Any readers from France out there reading Jihad Watch?cl

    • Could it have been ” schmoo” (I think that was the spelling). it was a character in the Al capp Lil Abner comics.

      Also Schmo is a Yiddish/German word, for (more or less, no exact translation that I know of) for jerk or idiot. And Jo or Joe- for anyone who fits the category.

      My thoughts to your question.

  17. This dhimmi tool has a fitting last name; Sapp is a sap.

    ”Members of the Duke Muslim Students Association will chant the call, known as adhan or azan, from the Duke Chapel bell tower each Friday at 1 p.m”

    How long before the ‘muslim students association’ demands the Chapel be converted to a mosque, and insists there be no more bell ringing, as this is offensive to mohammedans ? And no doubt moronic tools like this Sapp female will happily go along with mohammedan demands.

    All the Christian and Jewish students should get together and make a complaint; the ‘adhan’ is offensive, and hurts their religious feelings. Play these scum at their own game.

    • To me, personally, it is one of the most offensive sounds I have ever heard, and to know what it says,..well it is just beyond disgusting and blasphemous. Thankful that I am not subjected to it on a daily basis…yet…and that I have no children or even friends attending Duke…I do have sympathy for anyone who just doesn’t want to hear it, much less feels about hearing it as I do.

      When I am watching any program dealing with anything in the muslim dominated world…documentary, history, old movie, and that nasal wailing begins, I have to turn down the sound. And that was true even before I knew anything about islam or what that sound means.

  18. Azan, bismillah, Allahu Akibar are more that words, they are evocations, invitations to Allah to set up his tent and stay. They are holy consecrations.
    Bowe’s daddy said bismillah in the WH Rose Garden and Allah showed up, it is still there as a stain. Duke is allowing it’s property to be consecrated in the name of Allah, to be stained forever…Nothing good ever came out of an Allah stain…

  19. What insolence! No wonder Muzzies are hated the world over – Israel, India, Ireland or Italy. How about ALL religious chants/prayers then – Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, Christian, Mormon, Shinto, Rastafarian, and Daoist?

  21. A big problem with Islam is that ‘serving your brothers and sisters in humanity’ often involves killing them, torturing them or cutting off pieces of their bodies. But hey, no one seems to care at Duke University.

  22. My spouse is an alum and let them have it years ago over the Duke Lacrosse incident. Practically the entire tenured staff put their names to a hideous statement in a newspaper convicting the players absent any evidence. It was racial knee jerk, and no apology was ever made to the innocent white men.

    This confirms what I have come to know about Duke. They choose the wrong side.

  23. Why the big uproar? Didn’t Obama once say something along the lines that this call to prayer was one of the most pleasant sounds there is.

  24. And so the U.S reels, broken, shattered, staggering, gladly, toward dhimmitude; its people cowed and craven cowards hiding behind the niqab of what’s left of ludicrous USA and its sharia government. We only await for the United Arab emirates to take on the almost $20 billion of debt and ring fence the now dhimmi country as clowns for the entertainment of their muslim masters.

    • I believe those who fit into the coward category are relatively small in number. There are the blissfully ignorant who just seem to follow the the crowd without any deep reading and what they are exposed to is selective probably through the guiding hand of MAS. Then we have the stupid crowd that cannot put the puzzle together let alone understand it. We have the elitist segment who actually think they are studying those “Muslims”when in fact they are the ones who being analyzed closely. We have the revolutionary self hating Christian.or Jew makes no difference who would march for anything except his/her own background; all they want is a leader and the MB has experience with these types and will give them “leaders/educators”. Lastly we have a group that will always see good and want to believe and will be unyielding in their hope. There may be others but this covers the University fairly well.

    • Pumbar, I know your post is twitting Robert Spencer for daring to point out dhimmitude in the UK.

      But as you can see here, he is just as forthright in pointing out dhimmitude *wherever* it occurs, including in the United States, as here.

  25. “A weekly call to prayer for Muslims will be heard at Duke University starting Friday, school officials said.”

    Beware of the smell!!!

    “Narrated Abu Huraira:
    Allah’s Apostle said, “When the Adhan is pronounced Satan takes to his heels and PASSES WIND WITH NOISE during his flight in order not to hear the Adhan…”
    Bukhari 1.11.582

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/07/satanic-fart.html

  26. Are you out of your minds? Take a visit to Egypt where the call to prayer is 4 a.m. with loudspeakers from towers on every corner lit up with florescent green lights. Whew! Gonna’ piss off a lot of people!

  27. Mohammed has the biggest loudspeakers on earth i heard….loudspeakers are HALAL!Loudspeakers came from Allah!The fiste Verse of the quran say:A loudspeaker a day put the unbelivers away.

  28. “The collective Muslim community is truly grateful and excited about Duke’s intentionality toward religious and cultural diversity.”
    ………………………………

    In other words, Muslims are thrilled that authorities at Duke have turned out to be such dhimmi tools, and they will soon make further demands on them.

    And they are using the Duke Chapel bell tower for this. I’m sure these fools don’t realize that as Muslims see it that now *makes the chapel a Mosque*.

  29. GOOD NEWS!

    I was looking up information on another aspect of this story, and I found *this* article, which broke just three hours ago:

    “Duke Reverses Plan to Sound Muslim Call to Prayer From Chapel Bell Tower”

    http://insider.foxnews.com/2015/01/15/duke-university-sound-muslim-call-prayer-chapel-bell-tower

    “Michael Schoenfeld, vice president for public affairs and government relations, said ‘it was clear that what was conceived as an effort to unify was not having the intended effect.'”

    In other words, some decent people dared challenge this craven dhimmitude—and it worked! Bravo!

  30. Thank God for Franklin Graham. He’s one of the few evangelical Christian leaders speaking out on this issue. Everyone else is too chicken!

  32. my home state gone to the dogs. GOD will get you for this. and that is a GOD of the HOLY BIBLE

  33. Loudspeakers require power. Control the circuit breaker! Or drown out their call to prayer with some soothing ZZ Top!

  34. The article says that they are worshipping God. Allah is not God! There is a huge difference between God, and the god of the muslims. Allah could be Baal, but is certainly NOT GOD. Allah’s prophet, the perverted child molesting charlatan, is certainly no redeemer.

  35. I’m a Dukie myself, and as a atheist/secularist (which I still am today) I regret to say that at my time there I would have supported giving muslim students the chance to use the chapel in this way.

    However, my opinions on this specific matter have changed.

    Muslim organizations have a highly organized gameplan to acquire power for themselves, and are willing to use non-muslim goodwill in a deceptive manner to further their ends. It’s very interesting how this comes so close to the Paris slaughter .. I’m positive they attempted to claim this demand as a means to bolster “unity” or “solidarity” in response to the “actions of a few individuals who don’t represent Islam”.

    Atheists are waking up on this issue. I’ve noticed a lot of christian, jewish and hindu comments on this site, and I apologize for our late arrival. But were here, and we’re your strongest allies against Islam. Our own quarrels w/other religions are minor, and things we can laugh about later.

  36. Welcome to the fray, RJ. Christians, Jews, and other REAL peaceful faiths, I avoid the word “religion”, due to the man-made constraints it places on believing in God. The Spanish Inquisition, was a man-made religious event. Islam is a lame man-made religion, based on destroying others faith, and oppressing mankind. I did mention the Spanish Inquisition, right?
    Anyhow, I hope you eventually find out that Jesus wasn’t a pipedream, but the real deal. If you are in doubt, read the events that will take place. Revelations, the last book of the Bible, is current events unfolding, before our eyes. According to the koran, it sounds like the Anti-Christ and the 12th Imam (muslim messiah) are the same dude.
    I like to ask people who was the father of the Jews. Then ask who the father of the Arabs was. Same guy! Abraham. One son, the legitimate one, was Issac. The other son, was illegitimate, Ishmael. He and his mom, were sent away, to become those that wander, Arabs. They were not always muslim, since mohammad didn’t come along until the dark ages. But, if you look at the fact that the Jews and Arabs are half-brothers. The whole fiasco comes down to a huge family feud.

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