Islamic students refusing to share “multi-faith” prayer room

From Secularism.org:

A row over an Islamic prayer room that was recently closed at City University in London is threatening to turn into a religious war as Muslim students refuse to share a “multi-faith” space with non-Muslims. Instead, the Muslim students are using the pavement outside the college for their prayers.

The Muslim students say they can’t share with others because “a vast number of Muslim scholars throughout history believe it is impermissible for Muslims to offer prayers in a place where [a god] other than our Lord, Allah, is worshipped”. All-male groups have been praying on the pavement outside City since 15 February, with more than 200 reportedly turning up for Friday prayers in Northampton Square.

The protest follows a fight between members of the City Islamic Society and a gang of youths last November outside a building which previously housed the Muslim prayer room. Police described the attack, in which two students were stabbed, as racially aggravated. Earlier the same week, students reported being pelted with stones as they left the room.

As a result of the incidents, the university closed the room and set up temporary multi-faith facilities in a different building. The students want the previous room reopened.

“We would like to think that there is an amicable rapport between all faiths and societies at the university,” the letter says. “But, if circumstances arise — which they inevitably will — that each society has to restrict its time in the multi-faith rooms to accommodate other societies to the detriment of their beliefs and practices, naturally, there will be a breakdown of good relations.”

A university spokeswoman said the new room had been set up in consultation with Muslim scholars and was “in line with what many other higher education institutes are providing”.

“Practice in other universities shows that many Muslims pray where others have been – City has already seen its new space used by some of its Muslim students,” she said. City’s great hall was available for Friday prayers, she told the Times Higher Educational Supplement.

Fran Singh, editor of The Inquirer, City’s student newspaper, said most students — Muslim and non-Muslim — backed the protests. “I think the stance the university has taken is partly in response to complaints that they have let the Islamic Society have their own way for too long for fear of being branded as discriminatory,” she said. “They are trying to take a tough line but are somewhat missing the point.”

Relations between the City University Islamic Society members and other student groups have been strained since last year, when the society invited cleric Abu Usamah to a fundraising event. The preacher featured in a Channel 4 documentary, Undercover Mosque, in 2007, in which he said homosexuals should be “thrown off a mountain” and labelled women intellectually deficient.

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6 Replies to “Islamic students refusing to share “multi-faith” prayer room”

  1. As with all pack animals, Muslims can sense when they are getting the upper hand.

    Unlike we in the west, where individualism takes precendence over being part of the collective, Muslims will do everything they can to exclude others from daily life or be forced to join their pack.

    It is the principle behind dhimmi laws in Muslim countries and why there are now entire districts in Europe that are unsafe for non-Muslims to enter.

    It is also the principle behind jihad.

    This is one more reason why Islam must be banned as a seditious political organization that seeks world conquest.

  2. Wait a minute! Don’t the three great Religions all worshipped the same G od? I guess that vast number of Muslim scholars throughout history, just got it wrong. Whew!

  3. Wait a minute! Don’t the three great religions all worship the same God? I guess that vast number of Muslim scholars throughout history just plain got it wrong. Whew!

  4. This is what happens when Islamists furiously ‘builds bridges’ with toothpicks.

  5. Muslims cannot pray in a place where an idol is kept. So if Christian or a Buddhist bring a statue to that place, then it is impermissible. That is what I think… Allah knows best.

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    Arab scientists and scholars together studiously studied the notes of the war lord, paedo, narcissist, torturer, thief, raider, OCD, Muhammad through his delirious inspired book called the quran which he wrote after he experienced seizures dreaming of angels, demons and gods.

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