Catholic University being Sued over Muslim rights

It is difficult to draw the line sometimes. It can be blurred, the limitations can be vague, and the question can be, well, questionable. This is the case recently as a professor at George Washington University is up in arms over the potential threat to the Muslim community at the University. The Washington Post stated, of the university,

 “While the school has an official group for Jewish law students, a Muslim undergraduate profiled in a Washington Post article last year said he was told that he could not create a group dedicated to Muslim worship.”

GWU is a Catholic based University located in Washington, D.C., a highly diverse and multicultural area of the United States. Professor John Banzhaf is also Muslim, and claims that there are blatant abuses of Human Rights in the way of worship at this institution. However, as he has filed dozen of Human Rights complaints before, and there are no real complaints from any of the students in the Muslim community of oppression at GWU, everyone is having a difficult time deciphering the validity of this professor’s claims. This brings up the question of whether or not the professor’s claims should be taken into account, as it is not seen as a social problem due to not being a forefront issue for a majority of the population, or even the Muslim population for that matter. Robert Tuttle, another professor, has his concentration is in the separation of church and state. Tuttle stated that “Banzhaf’s complaints were not likely to be successful if it’s read the way other courts have read other human right’s exemptions”. Although one may rally for the change, it seems to take far more than one to make it an issue to be reckoned with.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/cu-sued-over-muslim-worship/2011/10/27/gIQAidsMNM_story.html