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Submitted by fifi (Ireland), Jun 16, 2013 at 16:24

"We never experienced this with Judaism … or Christianity." So spoke Robert Paladino, superintendent of schools in Cliffside Park, N.J., reports the Bergen Record.

He was responding to a request by a seventh-grade girl named Yasmeen Elsamra, 12, for "a place to pray during lunch period. Paladino did some research and concluded that the school must accede to her request. As a result, Yasmeen goes during lunch period to an empty social studies classroom, puts down her prayer rug, faces Mecca, and performs the Islamic prayers.Can somebody please explain to me what is wrong with this?

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