Muslim prayers on Fridays at the United Nations headquarters in New York have begun taking up a large area next to the General Assembly Hall, shunning a designated ecumenical prayer area.
There was no formal decision by the UN to host Muslim prayers. The space has simply been booked without further explanation.
Muslim prayers at the UN have been operating for some time, though UN staffers are tight-lipped about when they began and who started them.
There is an ecumenical “meditation room” – without religious markings – that is continually open to the public and adherents of any faith. A plaque outside explains that the room was “personally planned and supervised in every detail” by former UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold in 1957. Hammarskjold’s aim was to create “a place where the doors may be open to the infinite lands of thought and prayer. People of many faiths will meet here…[I]t is dedicated to the God whom man worships under many names and in many forms.”
Prior to recent renovations, Muslim prayers had used a remote venue on a floor above the library.
Today, one finds dozens of prayer rugs permanently set aside for use every Friday in the General Assembly building. The space is booked – the UN won’t say by whom – from 11:45 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., and unavailable for anything else.
Muslim prayers are now so popular that they spill into the path of public tours, with upwards of hundreds of shoes lining the halls.
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13 comments:
Ok then. For those hours it is reserved it's ok for their mats and shoes. But, when time is up those items need to be removed and can be returned just for the allotted time. Enough is enough! American people are tired of having this Muslim crap jammed down our throats by Obama and the liberal Democrats.
Sounds like a good place to wipe your feet or get some cheep shoes
10:39 Shove it. It's the UN and there's that whole "freedom of religion" thing in the 1st.
It's a government building religion doesn't belong there fool.
Attention Christians:
You don't get to have it both ways. You don't get to ratchet your religion into every facet of the public space, argue that you get to force people to sit through your prayers, then complain when it's a different religion. You just don't get that luxury.
You need to get on board with the founding fathers, and The Constitution and start living this Secular government. Secular does not mean no religion, it just means that the Government/Public in neutral. Secular is the ONLY form that protects religious freedom and protects against one religion exploiting it's place.
Take heed... I know you see it coming...
Screw you pal this is a Christian county don't like it move to Iraq.
Sounds like a great location for a nice mass shooting, we could call it Pay Back.
who cleans up all that sand after they take their shoes off
I went by there, ive never seen that many camels tied to a building in my life
@12:42
How VERY Christian of you, I bet you were wearing your "What would Jesus do?" bracelet while you were typing that, weren't you?
Oh, and to clear up your error, This is a secular nation that happens to have a population majority of Christians. It is NOT a Christian Theocracy.
11:28 Your comment is just plain ignorant. This is a building owned by world governments. They do not follow the 1st Amendment of our Constitution. Freedom of religion is not practiced by all country's. Most children learn that by the 6th grade. Perhaps you never made it that far.
There is no such thing as a "Christian theocracy".
You don't understand the meaning of either word: Christian or Theocracy.
Christian is a person. It is not an adjective.
Theocracy establishes a government that is guided by the religions' tenets.
Finally, Christianity is not a religion. It is the end of religion.
Somebody ought to take all those shoes and mix them all up and put them everywhere but where they left them then stand back and watch.
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