Muslim students at Loyola University in Chicago say the Catholic institution’s celebration of Christmas highlights an unfortunate indifference to holidays like Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.
A recent column in the Loyola Phoenix by writer Sajedah Al-khzaleh, “Religious Holidays Aren’t Represented Equally on Campus,” bemoans her school’s focus on Catholic traditions while those of other faiths are downplayed, adding that the private Jesuit university founded in 1870 should do more to make international students feel comfortable.
“Although Loyola fosters a space for non-Christian religions to practice their faith — such as in the Damen Student Center’s second floor of Ministry Offices for Muslim, Hindu and Jewish students — there is a lack of public festivity compared to Christmas, such as decorations and activities of other religions’ holidays the entire student body could be part of,” the author wrote.
Read more at the Washington Times
But the Eid is celebrated only among Loyola Muslim students themselves, which includes a morning prayer service and a dinner, according to Ahmed. Decorations aren’t hung on campus buildings nor activities hosted by the university.
Last year, because the Eid fell during the school year, Ahmed said he had to continue his day with classes after the prayer.
“Eid [at Loyola] is a bit dampened just because you have to go about your normal routine along with Eid,” Ahmed said. “At home it’d be a big family thing, dress up and go to the mosque. We’d spend the day together and celebrate … compared to that, college Eid has been less.”
Read the original Muslim column at the Loyola Phoenix
You choose to go to a CATHOLIC university and then complain because they are catholic???? Diversity has no purpose when the “diverse” individual demands our culture be changed to theirs. Most muslim countries are hell holes and their citizens must flee. US has freedom of speech, religion, actions and we are successful – hence millions try to come to the US every year. Why would imigrants want to make the US into the hll hole they came from?
I agree Stopspending. Why do people think they have to bring their life style to our country and try to force us to live it with them? Geez if you don’t like getting kicked in the teeth then find fellow countrymen to help you stop it in your country. Don’t come here and whine about us after we give you refuge. Go home if you don’t like what we offer.
This is Muslim invasion and conquest of America. They did this to Roman Empire in 7th century, and now are going to do the same to our country.
We must not surrender to Islamic conquest under the pretext that Islam is protected by 1st Amendment. It is not. Islam is a deo-political system whose carriers are prevailingly hostile to our Republic, its Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.
Only a moron or an anti-American agitator would claim that those who want to trash and eliminate the Constitution as the law of the land are protected by the very Constitution that they are destroying.
I’ve long wondered WHY Christian/Catholic church based schools even LET IN STUDENTS who are not of the faith? IF they only let in those who are christian/catholics from the get go, ALL THESE issues would be nipped in the butt.
>> even LET IN STUDENTS who are not of the faith? <<
C'mon, ituser, you know full well what the liberals would do if one muslim were denied entrance. Not agreeing with what would happen, just a point of reality.
Exactly, I went to Catholic schools, incl. Georgetown U., never was it thought that any special errangements be made for non-Catholic students, and never were they forbidden to leave and celebrate at their churches. It is a Catholic university!!
If you are so offended by Christianity, why enroll and attend a Catholic college. I doubt the administrators would balk at your displaying your own religious decorations and attending to your own religious/traditional services. Don’t like it at Loyola, then transfer to another institution that caters to your religious beliefs…like someplace in Iraq.
I detest Muslims! They do this kind of thing intentionally because that’s what their evil little book tells them to do. What they can’t take by force, they attempt to conquer by subterfuge, deception, and misdirection. Honestly, we should eradicate this religion–we’d be doing the world a favor!
It’s not actually a religion, it’s a governmental, social, and economic system which dictates every facet of their adherents’ lives.
It IS a theocracy- not a true religion. Try to bring up Christian ideas in an Islamic institution. (Not if you value your head)
Like it or LEAVE it- but don’;t expect it (us) to change on your behalf! Footbaths in college? Ridiculous.
YJ772, Islam is a religion just as Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Shintoism, Sikhism, Bahai Faith among many others you might not have heard of. Because you haven’t heard of it, don’t understand it, or don’t agree with it doesn’t make it not a religion. In addition, a religion need not be moral, non-vioent, or non-controlling as we understand those concepts.
But you’re absolutely correct that Islam concerns itself with every aspect of life, including the religious, economic, legal, governmental, social, educational, and sexual. You’re also correct that it takes a tyrannical approach to not only its adherents’ lives, but to the lives of those it’d control, namely us non-followers of Muhammad, an insane, illiterate, bully, liar, thief, rapist, adulterer, betrayer, slaver, pedophile, murderer, and war lord.
But tell me, do you believe that only Christianity is a religion, or perhaps more specifically Roman Catholicism? Does not the Judeo-Christian worldview not also address all the aspect Islam does? I think so and so do most true Christians. However, we understand from the Gospel and the lives of Jesus and His Apostles that the approach and goal is different than that of the EVIL RELIGION and FOUNDERS of Islam.
So have a Merry CHRISTmas and Happy Holidays.
docsuske, both you and YJ772 need to invest in some good unabridged English dictionaries. Yes, Islam is a religion that advocates, rather forcefully, theocracy. So did biblical Judaism. Are you claiming Judaism isn’t a religion?
If so, then you will have a problem with some “conservative” “Christians” called Dominionist. They teach America was meant to be under a Christian theocracy and Levitical Law.
A strong promoter of that worldview on these conservative sites is Rev. Ted R. Weiland who holds that Jefferson, Washington, Madison, and Franklin were traitors who should’ve been hung for supporting the Constitution, which he believes is satanic. He believe we’re meant to be a 17th century colonial style theocracy under Levitical, and Deuteronomic law.
Also, he posits that America was meant only for white, Caucasian, Anglo-Saxon, Nordic, Aryans and that blacks, Jews, Muslims, Hispanics and Asian shouldn’t be allowed US citizenship, but rather should be expelled from the country. Oh, he would allow some blacks, but only as slaves.
Such would constitute a “Christian” theocratic America (no USA). Would you support it? So please, look up the differences between the words religion and theocracy.
Am I the only one who feels that you guys have gotten off topic? The article is about a private Catholic university that is under fire for upholding their Catholic beliefs. Really, it has less to do with the Catholic religion than the fact that a religious organization is being criticized for practicing their religion and not supporting other religions.
Agree that Islam is not a religious but a political philosophy for administrating conquered peoples.
We’re not off topic. Islam is and always will go after ANY OTHER religion for practicing what that other religion teaches.. CAUSE THEY WANT their caliphate all over.. meaning THEIR cult is the only religion allowed..
They are dogs, and dogs will always return to their own vomit.
Dog vomit? That’s too kind. If you can’t assimilate, get out!
it is called invasion by immigration and conversion and it is working in europe
so they are sort of like the camel that gets his nose under the tent
When muslim Madras’es allow in christians and RECOGNIZE their holidays, i say fine, let catholic schools do the same. TILL THEM QUIT your whining mudslimes!!
This is what the muzzies call Cultural Jihad. It is the fifth of the six steps described by John Guandolo in his book, “Raising a Jihadi Generation”. The next step is Jihad. Every mosque in the country trains its attendees to murder violently all non-muslims so they can take their property and enslave the women and children. They are establishing their Global Caliphate and satisfying the dreams of the Luciferians to eliminate all Christians. When you see the black flag and one other “signal” flag flying above the local mosque, you will know the Jihad has been declared on America.
CAIR and every other Islamist 501(c)(3) organization have campaigned successfully to make sure no one in the military and law enforcement knows squat about Islam. TPTB have been complicit in making sure that it will be like shooting fish (us) in a barrel.
The order has gone out for Jihad on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day targeting churches in small and middle-sized towns. On the day after Christmas, the target will be shopping malls.
You know what to do.
[he order has gone out for Jihad on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day targeting churches in small and middle-sized towns. On the day after Christmas, the target will be shopping malls.]
Paranoid are we??
Dumber than dirt! Why does a muslim choose to attend a Catholic University? WTH do they expect? Loyola is not/will not/should not going to a lot of fuss to accommodate muslims in a Christian oriented university. Get over yourselves and leave if you don’t like it!!!!!
Are they really dumber than dirt? They get scholarships to a private Christian university and then force the Christian university to celebrate non-Christian holidays and traditions.
Once they are in, they now think they own the country and wants to rule. Kick them out and keep them out. God bless Pres Trump. And 2nd term. We need more politicians and authorities like him.
i am fed up to here with these towel heads who want everything there way.
you do not and i repeat do not belong in america go back to your sand dune and kill each other.
capricorn1, I find it funny that the Muslims have footbaths at the University of Michigan Dearborn Campus, but if one brought a Nativity Scene to U of M Dearborn, that would be banned. How I love hypocrites!
And how in most mudslime countries, you can’t even SPEAK about other religions, let alone try to establish another religions holy building, without being stoned, persecuted or killed..
capricorn1, theyre rag heads, not towel heads. And I cannot for the life of me fathom why they would go to a catholic university, except to disrupt and destroy said institution and why we as a nation are allowing them to dictate to us how we will live.
And imo that is WHY they do it. So once in that catholic school, they can use our ‘anti-discrimination’ laws against us, to FURTHER their take over..
This is “culture jihad” plain & simple. These muslims are working to subvert a Catholic institution. With Poop Frankie at the helm, no doubt they will be successful. The Roman Catholic Church is in its last days with a weak leader taking it down the path to its destruction. Until and unless the Roman Catholic Church awakens from its self-induced stupor and smells the coffee, it will be unable to assist in the effort to save Western Civilization from the barbarians.
Joe, The Church has been around for almost 2,000 yrs and has survived way worse than Pope Francis. Have no fear, he is just a bump in the road.
What these students prove is how stupid they are. I would like them to to Saudi Arabia during Ramadan and bemoan how unequal the treatment of Christians are in that they cannot have a Bible or wear a cross or outward display of their faith. Hypocrites and leftists. They have to vote Democrat.
Heckk in saudi, try listening to Celtic music like that produced by Clannad or Enya.. One of my friends got pulled over, and ticketed while driving from bahrain’s base to an AFB in Saudi, cause “Enya” is on saudi’s list of proscribed singers… WHY i don’t know.
How stupid and ignorant are they,it’s a Catholic University. Take your barbaric attitude and go away.
It’s not stupid or ignorant. It’s part of the pressure to push islam.
If you come to our country and don’t like it get the hell out. Go back to the hell hole you left. If you want to come here to be an American then do so but stop your complaining about our way of life. This is our country–not yours and most of us don’t want to bend to your ways.
Very true. I am sick to death of people being ‘welcomed in’ cause their home country is in the shizz. ALL CAUSE their culture ruined it.. THEN AS SOON as they get here, they try and force OUR CULTURE to become theirs..
Excuse me here if i seem out of touch and politically incorrect but any Christian entity based on Christian values is autonomous, right? That means that musrats or atheists or devil worshippers have no say in that. How does a muslim in this country on a visa have any rights whatsoever to demand anything? When is this country going to grow a set and tell these jerks to take their crap back home with them and get the he—out of our country. Do your muslim mess somewhere else?
Well said. You rock!!
[When is this country going to grow a set and tell these jerks to take their crap back home with them and get the he—out of our country.]
When we get the LIBTARDS out of the dept of Indoctrination AND THE COURTS..
Right. They do have the right to leave and move to a Shiria Dictatorship.
Johns Hopkins and Fairfield Universities
While according to others I’m invariably very laissez-faire when it comes to tolerance concerning others; nonetheless, I justifiably have an insuperable aversion to radical Islam, jihadists and Sharia Law the latter which clearly flies in the face of the U.S. Constitution. No Sharia law in the U.S. period/exclamation point! When is America/are Americans finally going to wake-up?
Fred Harden III AKA “GreyHairandGreyMatter”
Where as i am not. IF YOU DON’T Give tolerance to us, we should never be required to tolerate you.. ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU are the ones in our country.
Just look at the EU with how many countries now have “Muslim no-go zones” for anyone not islamic.. Or how they have those ‘sharia law patrols’ foisting islamic beliefs on locals to where they have been BEATEN UP for not complying…
I am sorry, but people with THAT SORT OF mentality (all pushed by their demonic un-holy book) DESERVE NO Tolerance from any sane individual..
Somali Muslims are now a political force to be reckoned with in Minnesota. Conservative journalists who are courageous enough to conduct man-on-the-street interviews with the Somalis in Minneapolis, e.g., find that more than two-thirds of them favor replacing the Constitution with Sharia law. Young Somali men in Minnesota keep getting arrested in batches of a dozen or more as they attempt to fly off to Syria and join ISIS.
Saudi Arabian dollars are funding the construction of mosques in places like Anchorage, Alaska and Twin Falls, Idaho. The Saudis of course practice Wahabi Sunnism, the same brand of Islam that is practiced by Al Qaeda, ISIS and the Muslim Brotherhood. How do you suppose all of this “multiculturalism” will end?
No one stopped at any point along the way to ask us — the American people — if this was a good idea or if it was something desirable to us. Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and even some of the GOP presidential candidates sneered last year that we cannot have a religious litmus test when it comes to barring potential immigrants from the United States.
Dittos for Michigan. A hand picked Geo Soros backed muslim individual to run for Governor of Michigan … and like Obama, the Presidency. ” America the Beautiful” gradually slips away.
Pity there’s no way we can just cut OUT Michigan and Minnesota and air drop the entier area into the mid east..
Continued…
At the same time, the State Department under former Secretary John Kerry was telling wealthy Anglican philanthropists that there was “no way” the Obama administration would allow Iraqi Christian refugees into America due to their religion. A litmus test for me, but not for thee?
So what happens next? The Trump administration will slow the bleeding for a few months while the temporary travel ban is in place, but after that, the same nameless, faceless bureaucrats who handle immigration applications will go right back to doing what they were doing before.
Which is why his ban should have been just what the whiners in the lame stream media claimed. A FULL ON BAN against mudslimes.. PERIOD. Don’t care what country they are from, you ain’t getting in.. AND TO PROVE IT, here’s a plate of pork to eat!
This is the country where freedom rings. We hear you dude, but no candy for you. This is a CHRISTIAN COUNTRY! Go back and celebrate with your pals>>
That is because this side of the world was founded by Christians and not musslums…thats right…i know how i spelled it. So…we dont care to partake of your archaic religious holidays. If you dont like that go back to your crappy countries. Thats it in a nutshell….Merry Christmas…infidels.
I heard that they don’t celebrate Christmas in muzRATistan so maybe they would like to go home, please!
M A G A !!!
Why are muslimes going to a Catholic university..?!! They should stay back where they came from and go to their mohammed U. But, this is an example of what could or will happen in the future in America. When enough of them get in the country, they’ll want to change it to their way including sharia law, and then, they’ll exclude all the others…that would be us..!! We’ll be on the outside looking in…if they would have their way..!!
Cause it’s how they DESTROY Other religious institutions. Force them to let them in, then whine once in, how intollerant it is being to the muslim faith, and eventually ONLY the muslim faith gets recognized..
Send them all back to where they came from. I am getting really tired of their moaning.
Islam is a fake religion to begin with. Mohammed wasn’t a “prophet”, he was a psychotic murdering child rapist. So until Muslims wake up from their dillusion, and abandon their BS, they’ll keep pulling stupid stunts like this.
Based on the documentation of Mohammed’s actions, I’d instead deduce that he was a follower of Satan. Certainly not a prophet sent by The One True God.
In delicate terms, tough toenails!
The answer to their “problem” is very simple and stright forward. They ELECTED TO ATTEND
a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY, and either choose to ignore this fact or came with the intention of attempting to impose upon the 99% catholic students the views of the 1%. It should be, must me made clear to both these few “boo who” you’ver hurt my itty bitty feelings this is NOT a muslim nation and while we are noted as one of the few nations who allow such crap to go on, still ITS OUR NATION and OUR TRADITIONS and sure as hell is NOT theirs. If they have a problem with thi, then go to Iran, Jordan, The UAE anyother place but here and see how far they could go protesting any of the Muslim traditions. Doing so in nay Muslim nation will get you jailed (usually without event of SHAM trial) or worse.
The Loyola adminstration should immediately crack down on these poor liitle, senstive souls and then boot them the hell out. We have for far tolong allowed BS such as this to force the majority to adopt the views and such of a mere minority, use the “PC” Police to ram this down the throat and its damn time its no longer tolorated.
If they never accepted them in the first place, they could have avoided this mess to begin with!
If they students don’t like celebrating Christmas, they can always go to school in Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Libya, Pakistan, etc. Talk about being ungrateful. I wonder if any of them have school scholarships?
This is the United States of America! If you cannot accept American Christian traditions go the hell back where you came from. I’m really getting sick of Muslims and their BS. If this commie indoctrination is coming from your professors, take them with you. Ungrateful bast—ds!
The obvious is that this is a Catholic school that accommodates those of other religions. There isn’t an applicable “fairness doctrine.” There is no suggestion that Muslim schools in Iran or Saudi Arabia aren’t doing enough for their Christian students–that would be equally silly.
However; the biggest thing I think being overlooked. “Eid is celebrated only among Loyola Muslim students themselves. Decorations aren’t hung on campus buildings nor activities hosted by the university.”
Did someone ask the school about putting up decorations and get turned down…or did the students simply fail to ask?
Hanukkah began on Tuesday this year. Where I work, there are miniature Christmas-Trees…and at least a couple of Menorahs. No one is offended. I have absolutely no idea what a Eid decoration looks like; but, I can tell you up front–no one where I work would be offended.
Who exactly at the University should be in charge of decorating for a Muslim holiday…if the Muslim student don’t think enough of their holiday to make some effort themselves?
What christian students in muslim schools in saudi??
There is only one decoration in Islam: the scimitar, destined for our necks.
I will support Ms. Al-khzaeh’s request to have Loyola University recognize Islamic Holidays whenever universities in Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia and Pakistan start allowing students to celebrate Christmas. In other words, when Hades freezes over.
That’s like, in a Caribbean restaurant, ordering an oxtail soup and then complaining that it “tastes too beefy” (last time I checked, an oxtail is the tail of a Bos taurus — the meat from which is beef and you can’t expect it’s going to taste like chicken/goat/rabbit/…)!
To the Muslims complaining — shut up, or drop-out yesterday!
Or someone going into a rib barbecue joint and whining “WHERE’s the bloody boiled fish”
As far back as 1956, when I went to Loyola, Loyola was a weak Catholic University and kept getting weaker by the year.
Loyola’s new fight song. “We wish you a merry infidel. We wish you a merry infidel. We wish you a merry infidel. Whiners. Get. The. Hell. Out. Of. Here.