Ritual-washing area for Muslims at MCTC may be only the beginning
Last week, I wrote about Minneapolis Community and Technical College, which
is planning to install facilities to help Muslim students perform ritual washing
before daily prayers. It's a simple matter of extending "hospitality" to
newcomers, says President Phil Davis -- no different than providing a fish
option in the college cafeteria for Christian students during Lent.
MCTC must have a helluva fish budget, but what's a little "hospitalty" between forced friends?
Dianna Cusick, MCTC's director of legal affairs, is overseeing the project.
She referred me to the Muslim Accommodations Task Force, whose website she is
using as a primary resource (www.startribune.com/2617). "They've
done all the research," she said.
The task force's eventual objectives on American campuses include the
following, according to the website: permanent Muslim prayer spaces, ritual
washing facilities, separate food and housing for Muslim students, separate
hours at athletic facilities for Muslim women, paid imams or religious
counselors, and campus observance of Muslim holidays.
...
The task force isn't operated by overly enthusiastic college students. Its
professional staff, based in the Washington, D.C., area, includes coordinators
who provide legal advice, teach students to lobby, write letters on their
behalf, and help them overcome "obstacles" such as college administrators'
concerns about violating the separation of church and state.
The Muslim Accommodations Task Force is a project of the Muslim Student
Association of the U.S. and Canada. MSA's mission is to enable Muslims here "to
practice Islam as a complete way of life," and its "main goal" is "spreading
Islam," according to its website. The association calls itself the "landmark
Muslim organization in North America," and says it has chapters on 600
campuses.
MCTC first, then America and then the world!
Dianna Cusick, you ham. Bend over and "squeal like a pig".
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