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Originally posted by sueali
I understand what you are saying, if everyone is doing it then you are not singling someone out. However, you are incorrect that hazing is making only new members do it. Hazing has a broad definition of anytime someone is made to feel uncomfortable active, alumna, new member or not. At least this is how my chapter was taught to view the definition.
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And I understand that definition. But one could say that they feel uncomfortable with study hours or required chapter meetings or filing reports with the president etc. You could be uncomfortable with walking into that room for initiation by yourself.
For a reasonable value of uncomfortable, reading the Koran shouldn't register. Any women joining will have a good idea that this is a Muslim based sorority and if a woman is uncomfortable, she wouldn't join. It would be like a sorority openly saying, our Patron is a Greek God/dess and having a woman complain about idolatry or pagans or something post-joining.
Point being, reading the Koran shouldn't be hazing by any definition.
ETA: There was another reply saying that required reading of anything unrelated to the sorority would be considered hazing. I think that as they are openly muslim, the Koran is definately related to the sorority.