{"id":17441,"date":"2012-09-22T15:56:58","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T19:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=17441"},"modified":"2012-09-22T15:56:58","modified_gmt":"2012-09-22T19:56:58","slug":"muslim-prayer-room-opens-in-catholic-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/muslim-prayer-room-opens-in-catholic-high-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim prayer room opens in Catholic high school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Principal wants <em>to ensure that all our students feel welcome. <\/em>Fair enough, but will the inclusive, tolerant Principal go for maximum diversity and hold her <a href=\"http:\/\/toronto.ctvnews.ca\/premier-defends-gay-straight-alliance-in-catholic-schools-1.833011\" target=\"_blank\">gay-straight alliance<\/a> club meetings in the same room? They could share the prayer mats.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontosun.com\/2012\/09\/17\/muslim-prayer-room-opens-in-catholic-high-school\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>LONDON, ONT.\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Mother Teresa Catholic secondary school is turning a second-floor office into an Islamic prayer room &#8212; the first high school in the city, private or public, to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Carpet will soon cover the tile flooring, speakers will be installed and prayer mats purchased to provide the school&#8217;s Muslim students, estimated at around two dozen, with a quiet and private place to pray.<\/p>\n<p>The idea has been in the works since the end of the last school year after a group of Muslim students lobbied administration to create the space.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re members of our school community. We want to ensure that all our students feel welcome, that they feel that they belong,&#8221; said Principal Ana Paula Fernandes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Principal wants to ensure that all our students feel welcome. Fair enough, but will the inclusive, tolerant Principal go for maximum diversity and hold her gay-straight alliance club meetings in the same room? They could share the prayer mats. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/muslim-prayer-room-opens-in-catholic-high-school\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[788,2178],"class_list":["post-17441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barmy-catholics","tag-gay-straight-alliance","tag-islam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}