Benedictine University is a Catholic college but has a surprisingly high number of Muslim students.
The Chicago Tribune reports:
Small Catholic university, big Muslim enrollment try to build bridges
Zainub Fiaz did her homework on Benedictine University before enrolling in the quiet institution in west suburban Lisle. She found out that its education major is rigorous and has affiliations with strong school districts in the area, two factors that impressed her.
“But then, coming here,” said Fiaz, a Muslim who is a senior at the university, “I’m just like, ‘Wow, there’s obviously so many Muslims.’ So, it’s super comforting.”
It also may come as a surprise to others that Benedictine, a Catholic institution in a suburban county that is 78 percent white and 86 percent Catholic or Protestant, may have the highest percentage of Muslim students of any Catholic university in the nation. As of last spring, 540 — or 24 percent — of the 2,250 undergraduate students at the Lisle campus who indicated a religious preference identified as Muslim, the school reported.
Benedictine President Michael S. Brophy said the number now may be 600, and other officials at the school said the level of Muslim students fluctuates between 20 and 30 percent at Benedictine. That percentage is rising and reflects a trend at other Catholic institutions of higher learning. It’s a result in part from the church’s effort to define its education as accepting all faiths in hopes of serving everyone in the search for what the president of the national Catholic association of universities called “transcendence and meaning.”
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Let me guess….they are kowtowing to muslim demands of foot baths, halal, prayer time, etc. etc.
Dhimmitude.
Shameful when a so-called Christian institution does not stand up for Christianity.
Build bridges? No, damn fools. Muslims will take over this school, that’s why they targeted it. They must erase all competing religions, as Allah commands.
These churches have lost their way. The pope in Rome says ‘walls are un-Christian’ as he sits behind the highest walls in Europe encouraging unsustainable Muslim immigration. Here in Sweden in 2015 Bishop Eva Brunne in Stockholm wanted the historic Seaman’s church to also be used as a Mosque with provisions made so that the cross could be concealed and a permanent marking be placed in the floor pointing towards Mecca.
Yes, this inclusivity is rampant, Alcoholics Anonymous(AA) can boost their Friday night meetings with an open bar & vegan groups can boost their membership with a Pig Roast at the park.
When I was a kid it used to be a joke to ask: “Is the Pope Catholic?”