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Georgetown University, which was founded as Georgetown College in 1789 and is the oldest Catholic university in the United States, has earned yet another distinction: it is now the oldest Catholic university in the U.S. that has a large new mosque on campus. This is great news, right? This is just the sort of openness and good-heartedness that will erase misunderstandings, melt hostility and mutual suspicion, and usher in a new era of peace. Won’t it? Meanwhile, we eagerly await the announcement of which Islamic university anywhere in the world is planning to open a Christian chapel on campus.
The College Fix reported Friday that Georgetown “recently completed a major construction project erecting a large mosque on campus.” The university happily proclaimed that the Yarrow Mamout Masjid, which was named after a famous Muslim freed slave and entrepreneur who lived in the Georgetown area in the early nineteenth century, is “the first mosque with ablution stations, a spirituality and formation hall and a halal kitchen on a U.S. college campus.” How exciting! And really, what could possibly go wrong?
The Georgetown mosque has been happily welcomed at the highest levels. The College Fix stated that it has actually been operating since 2019 while construction continued, but finally the building “was completed earlier this year to much fanfare, with a dedication ceremony March 18 drawing Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, who issued a proclamation recognizing the mosque.”
Yet even with a proclamation from the mayor and proud Catholic university administrators boasting about ablution stations and a halal kitchen, the university didn’t seem eager to talk about its grand new structure. The Fix noted that “Georgetown University’s media relations, as well as representatives of its Catholic Faith Communities, Catholic Ministry and alumni center, all ignored requests over the last week from The College Fix seeking comment on the mosque.” Now, that’s downright strange. Are they proud of their new mosque or not?
They should be, if they have any interest in being consistent. The College Fix also points out that “the Catholic Georgetown is not shy about embracing Islam. Its news release touted the fact that Georgetown was also the first U.S. university to hire a full-time Muslim imam 24 years ago.” And “in 2016, students at Georgetown University elected a Muslim student to serve as their student association president, a first for the school.” Fr. Mark Bosco, the vice president for Georgetown’s Mission and Ministry division, explained the underlying rationale for all this when he said: “We need to embrace interreligious dialogue.”
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Jim says
They should instead build the biggest synagogue on campus. The Muslms do not like Christians or Catholics, no matter what Francis says. Are they hoping for a big vatican donation?
Fed up says
Funny how interfaith dialogue only ever goes one way: Muskims always get platforms to claim their fake god and fake religion is somehow supreme, yet stupid Catholics never properly counterpunch and say how awful mohammed is according to the Holy Bible.
dazzleme says
Fed Up,
Muzlums are nothing but evil, Satan controls them and they are doing their best to take over our America!
somehistory says
The Catholic students should now be asking, “What is the point”? What is the point of calling itself a Catholic U when it is no longer?
Converts to islam usually change their names…to something like Cat Stevens did or Cassius Clay.
Since the U is now so tied up with islam and mozlums, should the guys in charge not change the name so everyone can know before bothering to enroll?
Georgetown U has been conquered for satan the devil, a.k.a. islam and mozlums
OLD GUY says
when you accept all that Saudi and Qatar money it comes with strings attached.