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...building I'll let you know," retorted the gunner. A vicious exchange of gunfire echoed from below the post, silenced only by roar of mortars hitting the insurgent's suspected firing positions. Then all was still. The thin, wavering sound of the call to prayer lifted from the village below. Still, the soldiers could see nothing. They had no idea if they had been able to defeat their enemy, or if he had simply disappeared back into the village he had come from...
...anyone standing outside of a building, consider it hostile intent and fire at will." A vicious burst of gunfire echoed from below the post, silenced only by the roar of mortars hitting the insurgents' suspected positions. Then all was still. The thin, wavering sound of the call to prayer lifted from the village below. The soldiers could see nothing. They had no idea if they had been able to defeat their enemy or if he had simply disappeared back into the village he had come from...
...Since then, Harvard has tried to address this troubled past. In 1958, Memorial Church opened its doors to all religions. The first non-Christian service happened eight years later, for Rosh Hashanah—many Reform Jews still attend services there. Muslim students have used its facilities for prayer, too, although this has changed since they acquired a prayer space in a prime location, the basement of Canaday Hall...
...lead of peer universities. Yale’s Battell Chapel recently lost its affiliation with the United Church of Christ and reaffirmed its ecumenical role. University Chapel at Princeton similarly offers ecumenical services on Sundays. Dartmouth’s Rollins Chapel is an explicitly interfaith space, with a Muslim prayer room off the main transept. Earl Hall at Columbia is more a center for community service and houses the Office of the University Chaplain, which is also explicitly interfaith. Any one of these alternatives would be better than Harvard’s status...
...call to prayer rings out; a long, deep, echoing sound that billows through the streets of Johannesburg's Mayfair district. Here in the heart of the city's Muslim enclave, the Afghan cricket team - the sporting world's favorite underdogs - are eating curry and naan. "It tastes just like home," says Hasti Gul Abid, a 25-year-old middle-order batsman...