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Title: Minority Muslim students take over Christian chapel in Kansas university
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Christianity Today
URL Source: http://www.christiantoday.com/artic ... s.university/67125.htm?print=1
Published: Oct 10, 2015
Author: Hazel Torres
Post Date: 2015-10-10 18:04:48 by Bridge at Remagen
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Views: 2932
Comments: 9
Right in the American Heartland, in the state of Kansas, a minority group of Muslim students have succeeded in taking over what used to be the Christian chapel of their university to the dismay of the school's majority Christian population. Ironically, the Muslims gained control of the Christian prayer area with the help of the administrators of Wichita State University (WSU) who, last May, decided to make the university's chapel "faith neutral" to accommodate Muslim students, according to a Fox News report. University officials ordered workers to remove all the pews and the altar inside the Harvey D. Grace Memorial Chapel. Muslim prayer rugs and some portable chairs were then brought inside. In a statement, WSU President John Bardo said the changes were in compliance with the wishes of the chapel's benefactor, Mrs. Harvey D. Grace, who in her last will wrote that "this chapel will be open to all creeds and to all races of people." Guided by this, Bardo said they decided to convert the chapel into a facility "welcoming to all religious groups on campus." But the changes ultimately resulted in a "Christian cleansing," according to Fox News. "Anything remotely related to the décor of a Christian church was given the heave-ho." The student alumni and university donors protested the removal of the pews and altar. "Why did they have to take out all the pews?" alum Jean Ann Cusick wrote on Facebook. But the Muslims now in control of the facility are dismissing the Christian outrage, calling it "Islamophobia," or prejudice against Muslims. The Muslim students have also apparently taken over the university's student body and publication, the Wichita Eagle. Student body president Joseph Shepard told the Wichita Eagle that the Christian outrage is "coming from off-campus, not from the students here." Of the university's 15,000 predominantly Christian students, only about 1,000 are Muslims. The Christian protesters continued to appeal to the university administrators not to deprive its majority Christian student population of their religious rights. Apparently feeling the pressure, President Bardo recently ordered a committee to be formed to study possible changes in the facility to address the concerns of the school's Christian students. "I don't think that change was undertaken with enough consideration of the feelings of all elements of the campus and broader community," he said. Meanwhile, the Muslims students are also making their move to assert their control of the facility. They recently presented a petition calling for the university to install Islamic-friendly plumbing—specifically, handheld bidets in restrooms around the campus.
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#1. To: Bridge at Remagen (#0)
You worry too much, Bridge at Remagen. The fix is in by 0bama and Congress and the US Supreme Court.
Why not? They are taking control of everything else. Islam everywhere while being a numerical minority, acts as if it is a majority and is given power accordingly. Out of curiosity, where or how did Kansas University manage to pick up 1,000 muslim students?
Perhaps his eminence Pope Francis will smoke the mooselimbs out with his incense burner? Then hose 'em down with Holy Water. Your namesake is the Ludendorff Bridge.
Bob,chances are they ran advertisements to recruit them by offering free tuition and a monthy check for enrolling so they could collect all that "free" feral money for having the required percentage of Muslim students. Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
And those "administrators" should all be fired, PRONTO !! Si vis pacem, para bellum Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
Dads (RIP) favorite movie, so I decided to make it mine.
Too bad they never rebuilt the bridge after it collapsed, killing and injuring all those engineers trying to keep it standing. The movie recreated the scenery and tunnels very accurately. Looking at the period photos, they look just like the bridge looked in the movie.
The production was actually thrown out of Czechoslovakia by the reds when the good Czechs tried to overthrow the commies. If you watch the movie you'll see they had to film the rest of the bridge scenes at night after they lost the location.
#2. To: Bridge at Remagen (#0)
Minority Muslim students take over Christian chapel in Kansas university
#3. To: Bridge at Remagen (#0)
Holy Water hose, WMB (Weapon of Mass Baptism) 
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#4. To: Bridge at Remagen (#0)
#5. To: rlk (#2)
Out of curiosity, where or how did Kansas University manage to pick up 1,000 muslim students?
#6. To: Bridge at Remagen (#0)
" the Muslims gained control of the Christian prayer area with the help of the administrators of Wichita State University "
#7. To: TooConservative (#4)
#8. To: Bridge at Remagen (#7)
#9. To: TooConservative (#8)
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