I'm assuming that this is what Duke University meant by "security concerns":
An Ohio woman who says she called Duke University — to speak her mind about a plan to allow a Muslim student group to issue a weekly call-to-prayer on campus — claims she was contacted by a member of the Duke University Police Department who said she was conducting an investigation about the phone call.
The woman, who asked to be identified only by her first name, Pam, said she called the office of the Duke men’s basketball team early Thursday after she read that the school was planning to allow the Muslim Students Association to chant a call-to-prayer, the “adhan,” over a microphone from the Duke Chapel bell tower each Friday.
The move outraged many, including Reverend Franklin Graham, the son of Billy Graham; though later in the day on Thursday, the private university in Durham, N.C., reversed its decision to allow the call-to-prayer claiming that its effort to ”unify was not having the intended effect.”
But on Friday university spokesman Michael Schoenfeld offered a different rationale for the change of course, telling CNN that the plan was being scrapped due to a “credible and serious security threat” and that the school had received a number of phone calls which were “pretty loud and nasty.”
Schoenfeld provided no details of the threats — though said that the FBI was involved in an investigation.
Odd, isn't it? You would think that if there actually had been any "threats," Mr. Schoenfeld would have been willing, even eager, to talk about them. I mean, these are the kind of "threats" that would seem to rise almost to the level of "domestic terrorism," if the FBI is involved, and we all know that the Left has been slobberingly gunning for the opportunity to push that meme against the "Christian Right" for years, decades, even. It's almost as if the Dukies felt like they had to protect their left flank against the inevitable "Islamophobia" charges and changed mea culpa horses in mid-stream.
"Pam," for her part, made no threats, but was only exercising the First Amendment rights she thought she still possessed:
But the school apparently decided that Pam’s phone call required an investigation, though she says she made no threats whatsoever....
Pam, who did not leave her name or phone number during that initial call, thought the issue was over — that she had voiced her opinion and that nothing more would come of it. But within 45 minutes, she says she received two phone calls from a number she did not recognize.
When Pam called back, she spoke to a woman who identified herself as a police officer with the Duke police department.
“She said that she was doing an investigation,” Pam told TheDC.
“What kind of an investigation?” a bewildered Pam asked the officer.
Pam said she couldn’t figure out why her conversation with the men’s basketball office staffer would have merited scrutiny from law enforcement. She also wondered how and why her phone number was being shared between individuals at the school....
Pam said she wanted to file a complaint over what she felt was harassment.
“Who are you going to complain to?” Pam says the officer asked.
Who, indeed. All she did was call Duke and speak her piece, but because she was speaking out against the Caliphate, now she's the object of persecution. From which maybe this publicity will shield her, and maybe it won't.
I'd ask if this is still America, rather than Obamerikastan, but we crossed and burned that bridge six years ago.
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