Minneapolistan and their newspaper The Star Tribune shares with us our future.
"Minneapolis Community and Technical College has brought forth a proposal to install ritual washing facilities to facilitate Muslim prayer. Is this a tempest in a teapot, as some have suggested?" Is it? You decide.
"Canada, our neighbor to the north, is farther down the "accommodations" road. A glance north can shed light on whether prayer spaces and ritual washing facilities are likely to satisfy activists for long."
"Last month, the Canadian Federation of Students issued a report, titled "Final Report of the Task Force on Needs of Muslim Students," that calls for sweeping changes at the country's institutions of higher education."
Among the suggestions of the "Final Report of the Task Force on Needs of Muslim Students":
1)"Criticizes Canada's loan-based system of financing higher education and calls for outright grants to students. "Education related government loans should not accumulate interest," it says, since Islam "opposes usury and involvement with interest-bearing loans."
2)"The report endorses "women-only" time at athletic facilities, and urges colleges to "provide curtains or screens over the observation windows" when women are using the pool." SUBJUGATE THY WOMEN!!!!
3)"Muslim-only prayer space,"multiple prayer spaces" with "easy access" from all over campus. All new building plans should include prayer space and ritual washing facilities if necessary, it adds."
4)"Food service workers must learn to prepare halal food, which is ritually slaughtered and otherwise permissible under Sharia law. After preparing non-halal food, staff must "change sanitary gloves and wash cutlery and surfaces" to avoid contaminating halal food."
5)"If a campus fails to make these changes, and others like them?" "The report outlines a comprehensive system "to encourage and facilitate a culture of reporting Islamophobia on campus. Anti-discrimination officers should be notified whenever such a comment is made, it says." ANTI-DISCRIMINATION OFFICERS??????
6)"Faculty, staff, students and administrators must all learn "the tenets of Islam," it said. "Education modules" for professors should incorporate a focus on "Islam and Islamophobia," while student activities could range from courses on themes of the Qur'an and the Islamic world today to "socials, programs and other initiatives" to teach about Islam. Everyone on campus should learn to recognize his or her "collective responsibility to identify and stop Islamophobia."
Thanks to Darwin for sending me an e-mail on this frightening development. I mean can you imagine if a bunch of Christians got together and demanded these same types of concessions? The uproar it would cause! The bile and vitriol that would be spewed by the haters of all things Christianity would be staggering.
