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TexasTowelie

(112,150 posts)
Sun Mar 19, 2017, 05:40 PM Mar 2017

The Texas AG sued to keep a Bible quote in school. Now he's troubled by Muslim prayers.

Every day at lunch, a handful of teenagers in Frisco, Tex., would pop into room C112, face a whiteboard and kneel for one of their five daily prayers.

It was just a spare classroom, used for everything from teachers’ grading to Buddhist meditation, school officials say. But Muslims at Liberty High seemed to like it.

“Takes like five minutes, instead of having to leave school, get in a car and go to my parents,” junior Sarah Qureshi told the school news site early this month.

“This is the seventh year we’ve been doing this, and we’ve never had one issue,” school principal Scott Warstler said.

Last week, however, top state officials learned about the room — and suddenly Liberty High had a big issue indeed.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/03/19/texas-officials-are-investigating-a-high-schools-prayer-room-for-muslims/

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The Texas AG sued to keep a Bible quote in school. Now he's troubled by Muslim prayers. (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 2017 OP
Interesting WP article, Texas still leads us into the middle Alice11111 Mar 2017 #1
what two faced piece of shit gopiscrap Mar 2017 #2

Alice11111

(5,730 posts)
1. Interesting WP article, Texas still leads us into the middle
Sun Mar 19, 2017, 05:50 PM
Mar 2017

ages. I'm so glad I left there nearly 30 years ago.

This reminds me of when the schools were integrated in Tx. The kids were great w it. We all got along and enjoyed each other. It was the ignorant bigoted people in the town causing problems. It seems these students were able to coexist w the prayers of their various religions in a private room, until the RW politicians set out to extinguish all but their own.

They are ignorant and evil.

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