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Universities Install Footbaths to Benefit Muslims, and Not Everyone Is Pleased

Date: August 7, 2007

Author: Tamar Lewin

QUOTE: [university footbaths for Muslim students represents a]  tricky legal questions about whether the plan is a legitimate accommodation of students’ right to practice their religion — or unconstitutional government support for that religion.

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Key Organizations:

• American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
• Americans United for Separation of Church and State (AU)
• Eastern Michigan University (EMU)
• George Mason University (GMU)
• National School Boards Association (NSBA)
• New York Times Company
• University of Michigan-Dearborn

Subject & Geographic Categories:

• Education
  • Colleges/Universities

• Philosophy & Religion
  • Religion: General
    • Islam
    • Religious Freedom / Separation Church and State
      • Separation Church and State (Education)

• North America
  • United States of America/USA

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