In the vein of this story somewhat, and more relevantly, this recent discussion, comes this story:
LONDON, ONT. – Mother Teresa Catholic secondary school is turning a second-floor office into an Islamic prayer room — the first high school in the city, private or public, to do so.
Carpet will soon cover the tile flooring, speakers will be installed and prayer mats purchased to provide the school’s Muslim students, estimated at around two dozen, with a quiet and private place to pray.
The idea has been in the works since the end of the last school year after a group of Muslim students lobbied administration to create the space.
“They’re members of our school community. We want to ensure that all our students feel welcome, that they feel that they belong,” said Principal Ana Paula Fernandes.
The prayer room, expected to be completed by the end of September, is located on a busy stretch on the second floor, just metres from the school’s large chapel.
“That was very important to ensure that it was included in the main building, and not tucked away somewhere,” Fernandes said.
Grade 12 student Amir Farhi, 17, was part of the group that led the push for the prayer room.
“We do have quite a bit of Muslims in this school who find it hard to practice their religion,” he said. “Having this prayer room, it’s easy for them to do their Friday prayers.”
Though Muslims pray facing Mecca, Saudi Arabia, five times a day, the room will mainly be used Fridays, the holiest day of the week in Islam.
Administration and students are working with a local imam, a leader of Islamic worship services, to create guidelines governing use of the room.
“We just want to come together as a community, exchange our beliefs, sharing our ideas and helping grow this school with its values,” said Farhi, who applauded school officials for moving so quickly to create the room.
While baptism is a requirement to attend Catholic elementary schools, students of any faith can enrol at Catholic secondary schools.
No figure is available on how many of Mother Teresa’s 1,400 students are non-Catholic, but Fernandes said the school’s diverse population is one of its strengths.
The prayer room will also foster tolerance and understanding of different religions among non-Muslim students, Fernandes added.
“It certainly is meant to strengthen the sense of community and the sense of respect . . . for one’s peers and the community at large.”
I look forward to hearing a reciprocal story about a Muslim school somewhere opening a Catholic prayer room for its Catholic students. (Just kidding; I can’t imagine a Muslim school admitting Catholics (nor should Catholic parents send their kids to a Muslim school), let alone a prayer space for Catholics inside a Muslim school.)
Patriactionary 
Svar
September 25, 2012 at 4:59 pm
Why?
Will S.
September 25, 2012 at 5:10 pm
Good fricking question.
Here’s a partial explanation, though:
Here in Ontario (and I believe in most other provinces), Catholic schools are taxpayer-funded, and the result has been, that while they get to have some level of religious education, their teachers aren’t nuns or monks, but ordinary secular graduates of teachers’ college programs, and the Catholic school boards aren’t directly under Church oversight, but constitute another bureaucracy, just like secular public schools. And there is pressure to conform to PC; for instance, the courts here in Ontario told one Catholic high school, back in the ’90s, that they couldn’t ban gay student couples from attending the prom together.
Whose bread I eat, his song, I sing… IMO, state-funding for Catholic schools has been disastrous for them, here in Canada, and they’d be better off like the parent-funded, other Christian schools…
TK
September 25, 2012 at 5:44 pm
I’m not surprised. The RC Catachism says Muhammadans share in the faith of Abraham. while Biblical Christians such as myself are anathema. I don’t have the exact location in RCC handy, but I can get it if anyone is interested.
Ryu
September 25, 2012 at 6:00 pm
I’ve heard an interesting theory. You see the Muslims will take over the US and Canada. They will do this because it would be racist to resist them. They will eliminate feminism. They will also eliminate PC because they won’t tolerate “flash mobs.” And then whites will awaken, and take our lands back.
Svar
September 25, 2012 at 6:15 pm
@ TK
Shut up heretic.
Will S.
September 25, 2012 at 6:26 pm
@ TK: I doubt that’s the reason why; more likely, it’s just the usual leftist bureaucrats running the school, who are hardly orthodox Roman Catholics, wanting ‘inclusiveness’ and ‘diversity’…
And orthodox Catholics do not think lower of us Protestants than they do about Islam, I’m sure. We Protestants are acknowledged as ‘separated brethren’, while the Muslims are not, being of a different faith entirely.
@ Ryu: The Muslims are far more likely to overrun Europe, first, since there are already so many of them there. That might serve as a warning to North America, as would equally a European WN popular uprising against them, as most people here have no desire to see WN plans carried out.
Will S.
September 25, 2012 at 6:46 pm
@ Ryu: BTW, our thoughts about race, can be summarized by this post. We believe that while race can be important, and isn’t to be off the table in discussions, but should be part of them, that race isn’t the end-all, and be-all; we are traditionalist Christians, first and foremost, and partisans of Western civilization, paleoconservative and rightist, but not on an exclusively racial, WN-type basis, per se. And we aren’t sympathetic to attempts to twist Scripture for WN ends, such as to argue against intermarriage, though we have no truck with people personally choosing against such for themselves, as they please.
Just so you know.
Will S.
September 25, 2012 at 7:10 pm
@ TK: From the Roman Catholic Profession of Faith:
Regarding us Protestants:
So we are considered brethren, even if heretical.
As for Islam:
From this, while the Roman Catholic Church appears to consider Muslims to be worshipping the same God as us (which position we Protestants disagree with, but never mind for now), they do not consider them brothers in the way they consider us separated brothers; that is, followers of the same faith; Muslims are held by the R.C.C. to merely be following the same God as Christians, but improperly.
Carnivore
September 25, 2012 at 8:01 pm
The assumption here is that a school which has “Catholic” above the front door actually is. These days, that’s a very dangerous assumption for parents to make.
Unfortunately, the current catechism is a study in wishy-washy wording, as the above examples illustrate.
Elusive Wapiti
September 25, 2012 at 8:02 pm
Agree with the analysis presented here thus far. Really,it starts with Catholic schools admitting any and all comers, including us stinking Protest-ants, in hopes of showing us the Light.
I’d say that permitting Moslem prayers in a Catholic school is taking seeker-sensitivity a bit too far.
Carnivore
September 25, 2012 at 8:09 pm
I find it very unlikely that Muslims will take over in North America (Europe is a different story). How it plays out here – like anything about the future – is very difficult to predict. There’s the economic angle and there’s the racial angle – white/black/brown(hispanic) with the jews pulling the strings. How all this intersects and what the outcome will be in the near term are the questions.
Will S.
September 25, 2012 at 8:18 pm
@ Carnivore: Agreed, both about the school, and the wording of the current catechism, which isn’t clear.
@ EW: Indeed.
@ Carnivore: I agree; I don’t see one specific threat, immigration-wise, to North America, so much as having a multiplicity of different hordes, as has already happened, continuing to ‘invade’…
Svar
September 25, 2012 at 8:26 pm
Here’s a comment by the Louisiana Roman Catholic and Chronicles commenter Robert M. Peters:
“I am not a scholar of nominalism; I am not even a learned student thereof; therefore, I must yield to the correction of those who are as they might find fault with this post.
What I know of Islam, Mohammad and Allah is that Allah is a god which Mohammed embraced or perhaps created to meet the changing demands of Mohammad changing circumstance. Allah is an irrational god, capable one moment of redeeming saints and condeming demons and the next of condemning saints and redeeming demons. He is not the God in whom there is no shadow or turning, the rational God. I suppose he might be a neo-platonic god, thus, distant but irrationally meddling. In short, Allah is the god of relativism; he is what he wants to be or what one needs him to be to carry out the agenda.
If, as I have read, there is an Islamic influence on nominalism; if nominalism had a marked influence on humanism, the Reformation and the Englightenment; and if liberalism, its classical version and its currently quite radical version, has its roots in the Enlightenment, then there might be a memetic link between Islam and the radical left, since relativism is a weapon which they both use to confound, deconstruct and ultimately destroy their enemies.
I do not suggest that there exist a conspiracy between the mullahs and the agent of the left, which have possessed the corpse of the Democratic Party. I do suggest that there is an affinity, rooted if my assertions are correct, in a common history of the deep past, likely unrecognized by either party.
It would suggest, if correct, that a heresy, like a witch, cannot really be killed.
The Lukacs/Gramsci left and Islam are the two enemies of what is left of the West. Even without the historical affinity which I suggest, they, despite their differences, are making war on a common enemy: us.”
http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/2010/07/22/democrats-and-jihadists-a-love-affair/comment-page-1/#comment-201947
As a Papist myself, I fail to see how a unitarian, “irrational god, capable one moment of redeeming saints and condeming demons and the next of condemning saints and redeeming demons” is the same as the trinitarian, “God in whom there is no shadow or turning, the rational God” whom we Christenfolk worship but then again they didn’t ask me when they started V2.
Will S.
September 25, 2012 at 8:35 pm
Good comment by Peters, Svar. And I agree; the Islamic god and our God are nothing alike.
El Bastardo
September 25, 2012 at 11:32 pm
The thing that drives me crazy about PC types is they actually think they are the epitomy of tolerance. Yet they are intolerant of anything they disagree with; which is basically everything. For God’s sake, one principle in Portland called PBnJ offensive (Bronan). I mean really? This is news for them.
Hate to say it, but a major crash for us can not come soon enough. I just hope it is enough to crack through enough thick skulls before it is too late.
Will S.
September 25, 2012 at 11:37 pm
I do wonder whether a collapse and rebuilding of civilization might not entirely be for the worst; it would certainly have some benefits, being able to restart afresh…
infowarrior1
September 26, 2012 at 5:55 am
For this I would like to show this video:
A little long but explains the general liberal trajectory ever since Vatican II.
Carnivore
September 26, 2012 at 7:18 am
Believe I’ve got the facts straight on the following – corrections welcome. After the first mosque was opened in Rome (with the support of the Vatican) Pope JP II met with some rep of Saudi Arabia and said now that Rome has a mosque, can we build a Catholic church in Saudi Arabia? The response was, “there is no need” because indeed there is not. Christian symbolism is not allowed in the open.
Pope Benedict XIV – not XVI – forbid Christians from taking “Turkish or Mohammedan names”. How far we’ve come.
In Our letter mentioned above, We designated that abuse as a cowardly concealment of the Christian profession, approaching infidelity. Since then, We have learned with great mental anguish that many people in that province continue to take Turkish or Mohammedan names despite the consideration of their eternal salvation. They do so not only in order to be immune and free from those taxes and burdens which have often been and continue to be imposed on the faithful of Christ, but also in order that neither they themselves nor their parents may be thought to have abandoned the Mohammedan sect, thereby avoiding the requisite penalties. For all this cannot take place without a pretense of the errors of Mohammed, even if the faith of Christ is adhered to in the heart, and this is at variance with Christian sincerity. It involves a lie in a most serious matter and includes a virtual denial of the Faith, most insulting to God and scandalous to their neighbors. It even gives the Turks themselves a suitable opportunity to rate all Christ’s faithful as hypocrites and deceivers, and accordingly to persecute them justly and deservedly.
http://www.ewtn.com/library/ENCYC/B14QUOD.HTM
Will S.
September 26, 2012 at 10:11 am
Interesting, Carnivore, and most dismaying…