DEARBORN, Mich. -- A Michigan high school football team is holding preseason practices in the middle of the night to help its Muslim players practice both faith and football.
The predominantly Muslim squad from Dearborn says the nocturnal regimen is a way for players to eat and drink while observing the holy month of daytime fasting known as Ramadan that started last week.
Of course, if a student wanted to pause at the start of a game to recite the Lord's Prayer there would be hell to pay, wouldn't there??? (pardon the pun). Don't get me wrong. If the players on this team - muslim and non-muslim - all voted to move the practice time to this time out of respect for their teammates, then great for them. It's not clear from the write-up just how democratic the decision was, but if every single player wasn't in favor of the time change, then they should have raised objections. You know, that whole "separation of church and state" thing that keeps elementary schools from singing Christmas songs and all that.
Or do the perpetually offended only don the hair shirts when it's a faith that won't call for the removal of their heads in their crosshairs?
That is all.
Thanks to PISSED for sending me this, erm, interesting news item...
3 comments:
Jay, Jay, Jay.............
You are forgetting your reading of Animal Farm (Or was it Animal House?)
Some are more equal than others.
I wonder if someone should mention that Deaborn has a curfew for minors...
Technically, and I am a teacher, student lead prayers are perfectly legal. As long as they don't interfere with the education process.
Once during the change of class there was a prayer circle before the chemistry semester test.
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