Controversy At Harvard Over Muslim Practices

Two issues of Muslim practice — whether the call to prayer should ring out across Harvard Yard and whether the university should grant women separate gym hours — have unleashed small waves of controversy over how Harvard practices tolerance. Heated discussions have erupted on dormitory chat rooms, students said, while various opinion articles in the student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, have denounced both practices. The arguments over both issues boiled down to whether Harvard was being admirably tolerant or was disrupting the lives of everyone to placate a vocal minority. Read more at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/21/us/21tolerance.html?ex=1363838400&en=c226c903f9f9e3eb&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

Comments

[Laura K]

It never ceases to surprise me that such small things can become such huge controversies. It's not as though the adhan is ringing out on campus all the time: It's Islam Awareness week. It's making people aware. How is it hurting anyone? And really? Four hours a week the gym is closed to men and people freak out? It's four hours. Find another time to work out. People get way too uppity about their "rights" when no one's rights are really being infringed on so horribly at all.