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Although the article did not link to a source in its main body text, it was presumably inspired by a 11 May 2015 article published on the website Breitbart titled “Catholic University Investigated for Offending Muslims by Having Too Many Crosses.” That article provided additional clues as to the origin of the rumor:
“Complaint says crosses at Catholic school offensive, prevent Muslim prayers,” reads the headline at BeliefNet. 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 Muslim students in any event. “Baffled Catholic University officials say they have never received a complaint from any of the schools Muslim students,” writes BeliefNet.
It isn’t clear whether Breitbart or Top Right News checked the date of the referenced BeliefNet article — nor Pamela Geller, whose take on the controversy included the observation that it “just got surreal”; nor Conservative Tribune, who described the issue as “urgent” on 12 May 2015. BeliefNet‘s URL indicated that the source article was originally published in October 2011, more than three years before it suddenly resurfaced on several sites as the “latest” harbinger of Sharia law. (That date is consistent with the claim’s appearance in Todd Starnes’ Fox News’ column in late 2011.)
originally posted by: Violater1
a reply to: MonkeyFishFrog
Snopes has as much credibility has Sorcha Fail or Before its News.
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When I first read about the human rights complaint allegedly filed on behalf of Muslim students at Catholic, I made the mistake of assuming that Muslim students were behind it. Only after personally speaking with the complaint filer — George Washington University law professor John Banzhaf — did I understand what this story was really all about. In fact, not a single Muslim student at Catholic University has signed on to Professor Banzhaf’s complaint and he admitted to me that he lodged the complaint against Catholic with the D.C. Office of Human Rights as a concerned individual, not on behalf of any student or group of students.
originally posted by: CharlieSpeirs
originally posted by: Violater1
a reply to: MonkeyFishFrog
Snopes has as much credibility has Sorcha Fail or Before its News.
www.deonvsearth.com...
pecancorner.blogspot.com...
puzo1.blogspot.com...
garthright.blogspot.com...
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Judging from the comments section, so does the source you shared.
1. Muslim students did not demand that “offensive” crosses come down at a Catholic school. For future reference, any time a blog post panics about the encroachment of “Sharia law” in America, it’s almost definitely (a) fake, (b) exaggerated or (c) straight-up racist. This gem from Top Right News — shared more than 300,000 times, and widely repeated in right-wing media — is an example of all three. Per the report, published last Saturday, a group of Muslim students at Catholic University are “suing” the school over “offensive” Catholic imagery. But as The Post reported in some depth — when this actually happened, a full four years ago — no Muslims were ever actually involved. In reality, the complaint was made in response to a Post article profiling Muslim students at CU. And it was made by a law professor at George Washington University, who has a long, much-criticized history of filing controversial lawsuits to get attention. Also, the students pictured in Top Right’s story don’t even go to CU: They’re members of the Muslim Student Association at Benedictine University, several states/hours away from CU.
originally posted by: Violater1
originally posted by: CharlieSpeirs
originally posted by: Violater1
a reply to: MonkeyFishFrog
Snopes has as much credibility has Sorcha Fail or Before its News.
www.deonvsearth.com...
pecancorner.blogspot.com...
puzo1.blogspot.com...
garthright.blogspot.com...
www.snoopwall.com...
Judging from the comments section, so does the source you shared.
Please elaborate.
originally posted by: MonkeyFishFrog
a reply to: Violater1
From the Washington Post
1. Muslim students did not demand that “offensive” crosses come down at a Catholic school. For future reference, any time a blog post panics about the encroachment of “Sharia law” in America, it’s almost definitely (a) fake, (b) exaggerated or (c) straight-up racist. This gem from Top Right News — shared more than 300,000 times, and widely repeated in right-wing media — is an example of all three. Per the report, published last Saturday, a group of Muslim students at Catholic University are “suing” the school over “offensive” Catholic imagery. But as The Post reported in some depth — when this actually happened, a full four years ago — no Muslims were ever actually involved. In reality, the complaint was made in response to a Post article profiling Muslim students at CU. And it was made by a law professor at George Washington University, who has a long, much-criticized history of filing controversial lawsuits to get attention. Also, the students pictured in Top Right’s story don’t even go to CU: They’re members of the Muslim Student Association at Benedictine University, several states/hours away from CU.
It took all of 30 seconds to Google. For a site with a tagline about Denying Ignorance, people seem to not know about internet search engines.
originally posted by: CharlieSpeirs
originally posted by: Violater1
originally posted by: CharlieSpeirs
originally posted by: Violater1
a reply to: MonkeyFishFrog
Snopes has as much credibility has Sorcha Fail or Before its News.
www.deonvsearth.com...
pecancorner.blogspot.com...
puzo1.blogspot.com...
garthright.blogspot.com...
www.snoopwall.com...
Judging from the comments section, so does the source you shared.
Please elaborate.
There is no way possible for me to be clearer Violater.
Read the comments section and you'll see what I'm saying.