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| Subject: Duke University has canceled plans for Muslim students to sound the traditional call to prayer from the school’s iconic chapel tower Fri Jan 16, 2015 4:30 am | |
| DURHAM, N.C. — Duke University has canceled plans for Muslim students to sound the traditional call to prayer from the school’s iconic chapel tower amid threats of violence and a backlash from anti-Muslim groups, conservatives and Christian leaders. Muslim prayers have been held inside the neo-Gothic chapel for several years, said Duke’s vice president for public affairs, Michael Schoenfeld, with the traditional Islamic call to “hasten to worship” issued at the service itself. University officials had announced that beginning Friday, prayers would begin with the chant delivered from atop the towering 210-foot belfry.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/16/us/amid-threats-duke-moves-muslim-call-to-prayer.html?_r=0 |
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