Posted on 02/19/2017 9:17:31 AM PST by markomalley
A Christian university in Texas has created a prayer room for its Muslim students.
The Methodist-affiliated McMurry University dedicated the space in one of the school’s residential dorms for its Muslim students’ daily prayers.
Before its creation, Muslim students met for prayer in a nearby hotel, a student who helped establish the new prayer room told The College Fix in an interview.
That student, Joe Yousef, is president of McMurry’s Saudi Student Club. Of the roughly 1,000 students attending McMurry, about 60 are Muslim and many come from Saudi Arabia, Yousef said.
Yousef said now that Muslim students have a prayer room on campus, it will be much easier for them to meet both their religious and scholastic obligations.
“On Friday, we get together and sometimes we have to go home to pray and we need to be in university so we don’t have time to go home,” Yousef said.
Yousef admitted that some people at McMurry didn’t like the idea of having the prayer room.
Some students are also supportive.
“Being Christians, we should be open to free religion and letting everyone do what they want to do and I think the Muslim prayer room gives them that chance,” student Hector Flores told BigCountry.com.
McMurry’s chaplain, Jeff Lust, and Dr. Mark Waters, professor of religion and director of international education, reportedly helped the students in their effort. Lust did not respond to a request for comment from The College Fix.
McMurry’s associate director of communications, Gary Ellison, did not respond to requests for comment either.
Lust told KTXS that the room is “a step in the right direction.”
“We anticipate over time we’ll have students from a variety of countries and possibly different religions,” Lust said. “We need to learn to live and work together in this world that is increasingly diverse and then we can truly become better together.”
The room will also serve as a meeting place for a new interfaith club, which is slated to meet for the first time Feb. 21, according to Yousef.
He said he will help lead the interfaith club in the hopes that it will help students of different faiths understand each other better.
“We are going to talk about faith and belief,” he said. “Some people have their own bias. We want people to get together, so we can help each other out.”
Open the room for those there, but cut down on future admissions!
The first is fair to the existing Muslims, the second to everyone else.
Instead, what it shows the Muslims is that even Christians dare not anger Allah, who is all-powerful, and the dogs and pigs sense it and give in to the righteous Muslims.
Sick.
would a Muslim university open a prayer room for Christians???
The College Fixaroo is in for sure. Geez!
Why are Muslims at a Christian University to start with? Turning the other cheek is going to get people at that University killed one day.
For every day I want to go back to the states/go back to Texas.. something like this comes up :/
Yep.
To Muslims at large this will be seen as planting their flag.
I’m just hoping other students will take it upon themselves to bear witness to the true and only Gospel without a hint of compromise.
Happy it wasn’t a Catholic school, but wouldn’t be surprised if it was.
Being Christians, we should be open to free religion and letting everyone do what they want to do
including head lopping, rape, and violence against infidels who open the door for them
Amazing how stupid people are
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving school. They’re cheaters and liars. I took a course there but the transcript says it was for non-credit. Excuse me?!? Who would waste money on outrageous tuition for bleepin’ non-credit? Who knew there was such a thing? I never signed up for non-credit. Who would? Yeah, a computer glitch but they wouldn’t fix it. They refused to give credit so curses be upon them. Anything bad, then fine.
I have never seen any examples of the muslims reciprocating tolerance.
One way tolerance is tyranny.
Given my own personal history of being kicked out of a Methodist Church when I pushed for greater Scriptural orthodoxy, I have come to see that in the aggregate the corporation known as the Methodist Church, as currently constituted, is not a Christian entity. Hence, headline error.
Ego is obvious on all sides of these equations: the ego of the benefactor that believes their every concession is testament to their compassion and benevolence, and the ego of the recipient, who believes that every privilege granted is simply recognition of their own superior worth.
There are two universities in Abilene and both are supposedly Christian though neither behave in Christian ways. Or that’s how they were a few decades back. I tried them both and couldn’t stand either. Abilene Christian Univ is for the rich kids with their noses in the air. ACU was more into product selling religion for their own profit.
Why would Muslim students choose to attend a Christian university in the first place?
That door should be slammed shut. Just as soon as the islamics are sent the Hell home!
As the case may be, my opinion is that Muslims do not bring inclusion, openness nor prosperity. Only destruction and turmoil....they certainly aren’t worth spending any money on for the ‘diversity.’
"Joe" sounds much less radical than "Achmed." Do they have an American Student Club?
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