[BREITBART] "Complaint says crosses at Catholic school offensive, prevent Moslem prayers," reads the headline at BeliefNet.
Perhaps Catholic University shouldn't accept Moslems?
It's one of those headlines that sounds like a bad joke, but it isn't. It's not exactly a serious complaint, either, and it isn't coming from actual Moslem students in any event. "Baffled Catholic University officials say they have never received a complaint from any of the schools Moslem students," writes BeliefNet.
In fact, the university expressed its bafflement in a full-length statement: "Catholic University's faithfulness to our Catholic tradition has also made us a welcome home to students of other religions. No students have registered complaints about the exercise of their religions on our campus. We understand that a professor unaffiliated with Catholic University has made public allegations claiming that we are discriminating against our students on religious grounds, but we have not seen any legal filing -- and will respond to them if we do."
The sixty-page complaint was filed with the Washington, D.C. Office of Human Rights by a one-man nuisance-lawsuit factory, George Washington University Law School Professor John Banzhaf. Moslem students are but pawns in Banzhaf's game against Catholics. Taken to its logical conclusion, his lawfare would wipe out mosques and Islamic learning centers as well. The rules of engagement in the Establishment's War on Religion have a funny way of changing to accommodate Islam, however, so perhaps those hypothetical logical conclusions will never be reached.
Banzhaf's complaint alleges that the large amount of Catholic imagery draping the halls of Catholic University creates an "offensive" environment in which Moslems are intimidated out of proper reverence for their own religion.
He further alleges the university "does not provide space -- as other universities do -- for the many daily prayers Moslem 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."
Not only that, but Moslem students forced to make do with Catholic University's chapels find their souls crushed by the oppressive spectacle of "the cathedral that looms over the entire campus -- the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception." Banzhaf insists the Moslem students must be provided with facilities where they can conduct their five-times-daily prayers without having to look at anything Catholic, especially that immaculate-conception Death Star of Catholic piety. |