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Mention Muslim and Jew in the same breath and most people think Middle East religious warfare and hostility, but at Atlanta?s Oglethorpe University, students and faculty are using religion to bring people together. The 70-member Muslim Student Alliance has just asked the Jewish president of the university to become its faculty advisor, and Muslim, Jewish and Catholic students hold interfaith meetings to learn more about each others? religions.
Philip Graitcer has this report.
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Mention Muslim and Jew in the same breath and most people think Middle East religious warfare and hostility, but at Atlanta?s Oglethorpe University, students and faculty are using religion to bring people together. The 70-member Muslim Student Alliance has just asked the Jewish president of the university to become its faculty advisor, and Muslim, Jewish and Catholic students hold interfaith meetings to learn more about each others? religions. Philip Graitcer has this report.
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PHILIP L. GRAITCER: The idea of inviting the Jewish president of Ogelthorpe University to be the faculty advisor to the Muslim Student Alliance, came up during a lunch conversation that Mustafa (MOO-stuh-fa) Abdullah had with his fellow students.
MUSTAFA (joke :15) We were talking about ideas, throwing things out there, and one of them said, hey there?s President Schall. Why don?t talk to him about being our advisor? Now apparently to this young lady, it was a joke.
Larry Schall has been President of Oglethorpe for almost two years, and he felt that getting the university community more involved in religion was important.
SCHALL: (pres3 :09) When I came to Oglethorpe, there was very little sign of religious life. While our students, I would stay, are fairly religious, they were religious alone.
Last year, the Campus Crusade was organized on campus. Schall encouraged a st...
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Mention Muslim and Jew in the same breath and most people think Middle East religious warfare and hostility, but at Atlanta?s Oglethorpe University, students and faculty are using religion to bring people together. The 70-member Muslim Student Alliance has just asked the Jewish president of the university to become its faculty advisor, and Muslim, Jewish and Catholic students hold interfaith meetings to learn more about each others? religions.
Philip Graitcer has this report.
