Chutzpah: Trial lawyer wants crosses removed from CUA rooms because they violate the "human rights" of Muslims

This latest assault on the religious rights and freedoms of Catholics comes to us from John Banzhaf, a George Washington University law professor perhaps best known for his idiotic advocacy of litigation against food companies for causing childhood obesity.  Now, the man has filed a 60-page complaint against the Catholic University of America (CUA) with the Washington, D.C. Human Rights Office.  The reason?  As he says, crosses, crucifixes and other Catholic symbols display "malice" toward Muslims students wishing to perform their prayers.

Malice?  A CATHOLIC university displaying it's CATHOLIC identity is now malicious?  Displaying the crucifix is now a human rights violation?  I must have missed that lesson when I was in school.

If my knowledge of Muslim prayers is correct, one does not need to even be in a room to say them.  I've heard of Muslims performing their prayers in the middle of airports, for crying out loud.  You cannot tell me that Muslim students at CUA can't, say, go outside to pray.  The whole thing stinks to high heaven.  It sounds to me to be an irreligious lawyer going on a crusade against a religious school to strip it of its religious identity.

And likewise, given the way Islamic religious texts speak of non-Muslims, if any Muslim students are involved in this, I can't help but wonder if religious hatred of Christians and a desire to remove anything relating to the  infidel play a role here.

Duly, the government is now investigating this frivolous and frankly frightening complaint.  Given the cavalier attitude that has been displayed by our government in the area of religious freedom in recent times gives me pause as to the outcome of this.  If the government rules against CUA, it will be another massive blow to the religious freedoms of Catholics in America, and will have a chilling effect on the rights of Christians across the board.

I pray to our Almighty Father that cooler heads prevail and this horrid lawsuit is thrown out of court as the baseless piece of trash that it is.

Pax Christi.

Prayer for the Persecuted Copts of Egypt

Father, your children pray for the Christians of Egypt, who daily suffer outrages and persecutions for you.  Through Jesus Christ our Lord and the prayers of the Holy Theotokos, grant them peace, safety and security.  Have mercy on their persecutors and grant them conversion, that they may see Your truth and and turn their hearts to the service of you.  Grant them salvation and mercy.  To those who have been martyred for love of you, grant eternal rest in heaven with you and all the saints.  Through Christ our Lord.  Amen.

الأب، أطفالك نصلي من اجل المسيحيين في مصر، الذين يعانون يوميا الاعتداء والاضطهاد بالنسبة لك. من خلال يسوع

 المسيح ربنا وصلاة والدة الإله المقدسة ، ويمنحهم السلام والأمن والسلامة. رحمه مضطهديهم ومنحهم التحويل، لكي يروا

الحقيقة وبدوره الخاص بك وقلوبهم لخدمة لك. منحهم الخلاص والرحمة. لأولئك الذين استشهدوا من أجل الحب منكم، منح

الراحة الأبدية في السماء مع لكم ولجميع القديسين. من خلال المسيح ربنا. آمين.

 

 (The Arabic translation above is provided by Google Translate and may not be 100% accurate.  If there are any errors, please feel free to correct me.)

Mojave Desert Cross Stolen (LifeSiteNews)

LOS ANGELES, May 11, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Less than two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a cross display in the Mojave Desert, the 75-year-old landmark has been stolen, reported the National Park Service Monday.
Mojave National Preserve officials discovered Monday that the 7-foot cross had been stolen, and the metal bolts anchoring the cross cut off, National Park Service spokeswoman Linda Slater said.

I hate to start speculating, but I don't think this is just a random theft.

The hardcore atheists and their allies in the left-wing civil liberties groups have been trying to get the Mojave cross torn down through legal means for a while now.  And now, all of a sudden, it disappears shortly after a higher court rules that it can stay up.  I'm not saying for certain, but it seems like a strange coincidence to me.

Lately, I've been getting e-mails telling me about a website, atheistactivist.org, which encourages atheists to desecrate and destroy the crosses left on roadsides to honor those killed in auto accidents, even going so far as to recommend a particular brand of tools for the .  Forgive my suspicions, but it wouldn't surprise me if someone took them very seriously and decided to do the same thing to the Mojave cross

According to the website, a "major announcement" is forthcoming.  Hmmm.

If I'm right, and I hope I'm not, I can't say I'm surprised.  I've been expecting this kind of brazen anti-Christian activity for a while now.

Let us pray for the misguided souls behind this.