Imagine if Catholics had demanded space for mass at a Muslim institution. They’d be laughed out of the place, or worse. These demands never, ever go both ways. They’re designed to establish and reinforce the supremacy of Islam.
“Protests as Indian Catholic college denies space for Muslim prayers,” UCA News, July 29, 2024 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A Catholic college in southern Indian Kerala state has denied space for its women Muslim students to offer Friday prayers on the college premises, kicking off a controversy with Church officials terming the demand as part of a sectarian move to target the college.
Nirmala College, managed by the Kothamangalam diocese, began witnessing protests on July 26, when staff prevented a few Muslim girl students from offering their prayers (namaz) inside a room in the college.
Muslim girls wanted the space inside the campus to offer their mandatory Friday prayers as the local mosque does not have a facility for them.
Vice-principal A. J. Emmanuel told UCA News that the 72-year-old college “has no provision for allowing space for offering namaz.” The college has no plan to change its policy, he said.
Church officials said the sudden demand and the controversy are part of an organized attempt to tarnish Christian institutions across the state, where Muslims now count 26 percent of the state’s 33 million people.
“There has been a concerted and planned move in recent times against Christian minority institutions,” said Bishop Thomas Tharayil, convener of the Public Affairs Committee (PAC) of the Syro-Malabar Church.
Christians form only 18 percent of Kerala’s population. Both Christians and Muslims are religious minorities, as Hindus form 54 percent of the state’s population.
The Eastern rite Syro-Malabar Church, under which the diocese functions, has urged the state government to protect the college and managers, fearing the students’ protest could turn violent.
The demand has “no legal or moral standing,” Bishop Tharayil said in a statement on July 28….
FYI says
What happens if you are a Hindu in the Uk, and you call the police if muslims threaten to kill you?
Why you will probably be accused of “islamophobia”
Notice that there is no “Hinduphobia”
If you protest the islamic use of violence?”far right”
If you think people should be free to express their opinions?You are just “full of hate”.
Hoi Polloi says
Congratulations to Nirmala College on being among those willing to stand up to islam. “the local mosque does not have a facility for them,” so naturally they attack a Christian institution instead of their own institutions. Typical, and the camel’s nose under the tent, as always.
Troybeam says
This is BS, the catholic church is selling churches to Islam which in turn they make them into mosques, just a matter of time before Islam invades the schools.
somehistory says
Good for the church people for resisting the evil that is islam, and the demands of the mozlums for ‘space’ to prey for their satanic ‘god’ and fake prophet’ to murder all Christians and Jews.
mozlums have a ‘majority’ over the Christians in that state; so the mozlums naturally went after the Christians to force them to submit. It’s great that they were given a “no” and without any equivocation of maybe that would change.
As a Christian can pray any place and any time, there are no demands upon others to make a ‘space.’
The Jew in ancient times, Nehemiah, prayed as he waited on the Persian king. (chapter 2) Daniel prayed in the pit with the lions. Christians follow their godly examples.
And if the mozlum women are so in need of space, let them ask their husbands or fathers to make room for them at the barracks. There is no good reason for them to even be attending a Catholic college, much less to be making demands to have ‘space’ to call out their condemnation of Christians.
James Hoagland says
Very well stated. I have begun to use shiite muslim to designate from Sunni as Sunni seem to have more common sense. But, hey, the Koran is a construction just as ‘palestinian people’ is a construction. They these Muslims are about an imperial obsession to rule the world. And yes Allah is a demon. And ‘Mohammad’ a title not a person.
Walter Sieruk says
OK, Muslims were enraged what those higher up’s in that Catholic college refused their demand for separate room for a place of Islamic prayers . Who cares if they’re “enraged”. So what ? That’s their problem.
When a person stops to think about the gall of that Muslim demand. Islamic gall. There is no Muslim institution of “higher education” what would great a separated room for Catholics or Protestants to say their prayers in. Even if , and that “if” would not happen, nevertheless even a Catholic and Protestant group would just ask and not demand a special room for their prayers , the Muslims in power in their “college’ would be both offended and even enraged is such a request was even asked for.
Pray Hard says
Contrived tantrums.
Walter Sieruk says
Maybe those in control of that Catholic collage are aware that this Muslims demand for a separate room for Islamic prayers might by one of the methods of the stealth jihad. For that sly and insidious type of Jihad is able to take many different forms Also those in charge might have realized that this Muslims demand , if appeased would only result in further demand.
As reflected in the old saying, “If you give them an inch they will take a mile.” That wise proverb is somewhat like the Arab fable, which is about a camel and a text.
One cold winter night in the Arabian desert a camel asked that man who had a tent and was living in it “Please sir . I don’t ask for much. Just let me stick on nose in the tent to keep it warm. That man agreed. The next night the camel asked “Please let me put my whole head into the test to keep it warn in night , My head isn’t very large. Then by inch by inch, night the camel got his entire body into that tent ,with no room for that man who is the owner of that tent to live inside it.
Kenneth Johnson says
My, My. What a pity, Muslems trying to make the rules. Amy place there Are Muslems theree is a demand for change. Theyshould be told to go elsewhere, ken
abu taleb says
You dirty infidels, don’t you know that you are lower than any creature on earth, you have no right at all while muslims haveavery right above you?
Denying the right of muslims to pray at your place means you have become the enemies of Islam, and we can and will kill you, we will rob your properties, we will kidnape your women, rape them and make them as sex slaves.
But of course, even after you give your place as our prayer place, we will still kill, rob and enslave you because you are infidels.
Captain Quirk says
I’m amazed. Refused? How’s that? This is against the explicit instructions of heretic pope Franciscus!
jerry glenn says
It won’t be long before they cave.
Nabil Bissada says
“Imagine if Catholics had demanded space for mass at a Muslim institution. These demands never, ever go both ways. ”
This sentence is waiting a respond from the Muslims.
99% of the Muslims around the world do not know the true of Islam.
The Muslims women who are asking for a space to pray on Friday they have no idea that according to the Koran and the sharia law they are:
Equal for the black dog, devil and donkey.
Muslims women are minor in faith and thinking. Two Muslims women are equal for one man in court as a witness and for heritance.
Muslims men have the right to beat his wife and divorce her in time he wants. And the right to have up to four wives.
Muhammed the leader of Islam had sex with infant baby and with a dead woman in her first six hours of her death.
Khadiga Muhammed wife and her daughter they die without believe in him as a prophet.
Two things still support Islam:
1- The terrorist’s Islamic organizations
2- The western countries.
Either that Islam will disappear from the world same he disappears from the majority of the Muslims in the Middle east.
Congratulations to the Catholic Nirmala College and hope they will never change their decision if the Muslims International organization offer to them money.
Islam is a devilish religion.
Peter35 says
Yet another example of vastly more populous Hindus giving in to moslems.
Exactly why are moslems allowed in a catholic school anyway? I thought allah would have preferred they stayed home, dumb and pregnant.