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As of Friday, residents of Durham, N.C., near the Duke University Chapel bell tower will now hear the tones of a male Muslim Students Association member chanting the Muslim �adhan� or "call to prayer" at 1 p.m. each week.

�On campus among students and faculty the response has been overwhelmingly positive,� says Duke spokesman Keith Lawrence in a phone interview.

The chant, which announces the start of the group�s jummah prayer service, which takes place in the chapel basement each Friday at 1 p.m., lasts about three minutes and will be moderately amplified, according to a Duke University press release.

Imam Adeel Zeb, Muslim chaplain at Duke says in a phone interview that the addition of the chant was in the works months prior to the militant Islamist attacks on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and are in no way in response or politically motivated.

Muslim students at Duke are supported by the university through the Office of Student Affairs� Muslim Life department, which hosts religious services, community service projects, and interfaith events. The Center for Muslim Life provides on-campus social and spiritual meeting spaces for students as well as opportunities for counseling and advising.

�This is not about politics,� Mr. Zeb says. �This is part of Duke�s mission to promote religious diversity on campus.�

Zeb adds that he �did not hesitate for a moment� or waver at all in the plan following the Paris attacks or after learning about negative feedback on Twitter.

�As always, I advise my students to respond to negativity by being very positive and loving in their character,� Zeb says. �It is a tradition and an honor to carry on the chant and call to prayer.�

"Duke is in the minority for having he call to prayer," Zeb says. "I don't know of many others doing it."

He adds that the service is open to the public,

The words will be chanted in Arabic, then spoken in English by either male or female students over the public address system, according to Zeb who offers the following English translation of the Adhan:

God is Most Great. God is Most Great.

God is Most Great. God is Most Great.

I bear witness that there is none worthy of being worshipped except God.

I bear witness that there is none worthy of being worshipped except God.

I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of God.

I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of God.

Come to prayer. Come to prayer.

Come to Success. Come to Success.

God is Most Great. Allah is Most Great.

There is none worthy of being worshipped except God.

Zeb says that he has spent the past week training seven male students in the proper intonation, rhythm, and pronunciation of the chant. The adhan is traditionally performed by males unless it is a call to an all-female gathering, in which case, Zeb says, a woman would call the adhan.

"The adhan is the call to prayer that brings Muslims back to their purpose in life, which is to worship God and serves as a reminder to serve our brothers and sisters in humanity," Zeb explains. �The collective Muslim community is truly grateful and excited about Duke�s intentionality toward religious and cultural diversity.�

�This opportunity represents a larger commitment to religious pluralism that is at the heart of Duke�s mission,� Christy Lohr Sapp, the chapel�s associate dean for religious life and a Christian, is quoted in a press release. �It connects the university to national trends in religious accommodation.�

same bunch of azzwipes that tried to crucify the Lacrosse team.



I would be willing to bet that there are multiple restrictions on Christian worship on the Duke campus. Perfidy, at it's most blatant.

This is the kind of crap which does not need to be in college.

But they would likely not broadcast a Christmas carol.

Really, there should be an app for that.

Maybe a well healed Arab offered to build a new stadium.

Can you imagine the outcry created by someone praying the Lord's Prayer through the speaker system at 3:00pm...

Well, that one is off my daughter's college list. Permanently.

ditto.

The Lord's Prayer would probably be ok at Duke its run by the Methodest Church.

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/uarchives/history/articles/narrative-history

Duke is a Methodist University -- what they hell are they thinking?

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The college I went to, Embry-Riddle Aero Univ, had a lot of students from the middle east. They all got together and petitioned the school to set up a place for them to put their little rugs on the floor and face east. The school told them there was a interfaith chapel on the campus that they could use and there would be no further discussion.

That was a long time ago and I hope that they stuck to their guns after all these years.

The Muslim population of students at Duke is crazy stupid large.

They bring oil money.

I'm guessing many of their wealthiest benefactors will not like this. Franklin Graham has already called for donors to withhold gifts to the University until they reverse this policy.

You have this all wrong. It's kind of like playing a squealin' rabbit call to the coyotes. That's how ya bring em' in ... now all they need are some sheep decoys.

I doubt it. The United Methodist Church organization was long ago infiltrated by and taken over by Marxist Socialist inspired radical preachers. Any money deficit will be easily replaced by mid-Eastern oil money.

The United Methodist Church also was the original co-founder of Handgun Control and helped found the National Coalition to Ban Handguns. They also push their policy of being against self defense so no one should be allowed to own firearms and their preachers preach that nonsense constantly.

Although I was raised in the Methodist Church back before they were infiltrated, I would not set foot in a Methodist Church today. I can get all the communist brainwashing I want just listening to the main stream media news reports.

L.W.

So, they will now let the Christian students issue their own slightly amplified call to prayer???

Damn NE Yankees. So long as it doesnt spread...

The Duke student body is rather notorious and infamous in regards their pranking and taunting. I expect there will be a response.

In the meanwhile, we'll see how the school donors respond.

Our nation's nativity scenes and school prayers are yanked but this HS is permitted. What a deplorable crock!!

This is one of the main reasons our daughter goes to a private Christian school. We know and believe that she can get into just as much trouble there as in a state school, but we don't worry about the school teaching things we are uncomfortable with. Many of the kids she is friends with have no strong affiliation with the particular denomination. Their parents just want them in a good school. The schools enrollment goes up each year and they still have to turn away many kids.

And I suspect the swift response to any pranking and taunting will soon make the true nature of Islam apparent.

I do think that Duke has stepped on its schlong on this one.

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