Muslim prayer room call for universities

audailytelegraph ^ | 09/04/07 | Evelyn Yamine

[TornadoAlley3]

HALAL food and prayer rooms should be adopted at all universities to help Muslim students meet their religious and educational obligations, a conference heard yesterday.

The religious needs of Muslim university students were addressed at an inaugural conference launched by the University of Western Sydney. UWS Director of Equity and Diversity Dr Sev Ozdowski said they wanted to develop national standards for Muslim students which could be incorporated by other universities.

The "Access, Inclusion and Success - Muslim students at Australian universities" two-day conference is covering issues relating to gender, discrimination and how to meet the fundamental religious needs of Muslim students. Dr Ozdowski told The Daily Telegraph the aim of the forum was to raise awareness and to find a way to make sure Muslim students can meet obligations to their religion as well as the university.

UWS already has prayer rooms and halal food at a majority of its campuses for its 2000 Muslim students - the largest tertiary Muslim student population in Australia. "There is no model or national standard to guide Australia's universities on how they can best address the varied cultural, ethnic and religious needs of their diverse student populations," Dr Ozdowski said. "It's important that all people, including those from Muslim backgrounds, have the ability to fully participate in higher education so they can gain good employment and strengthen their place in society.

[EEDUDE]

My religion requires that I drink beer for breakfast.

I demand that University cafeterias serve beer along with tomato juice, orange juice, and milk.

[TomGuy]

HALAL food and prayer rooms should be adopted at all universities to help Muslim students meet their religious and educational obligations

If the U's give in to this, every religion that has even 1 representative on campus should demand an comparable, but separate, accommodation.

[bmwcyle]

Much wants more.

[expatguy]

Maybe you have not been reading the news - but America has been accommodating and appeasing the Muslims - and for the most part, the Americans have met all of the demands placed on them.

Well... now you are seeing what happens when you give in to demands. You get more. And they will not stop. The point of no return has already been passed I'm afraid.

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

[himno hero]

these idiots came here to get educated about progress and prosperity,,,,and want to drag us into their seventh century cult life style?

Next thing they will want is for us to do away with toilet paper and go back to their customary shared rag

it all makes good sense

[sageb1]

“how to meet the fundamental religious needs of Muslim students”

How about meeting the fundamental religious needs of Jewish and Christian students to keep the religion of hate and bigotry from populating schools?

[PGalt]

Much wants more.

Much wants allah

[Tully Pettigrew 1]

I think we need to get right on this.

[Yorlik803]

They want a prayer room? why not put it in the crapper so everyone can show what they think of Muhammed?

[The Forgotten Man]

I say give in, put them everywhere. One small caveat, link them all to GPS, then paint them as a target and send them on their way to oblivion....

[cammie]

If they start this @*(!&! on my campus, as a Catholic college professor I demand a meatless cafeteria on every Lenten Friday and I also demand that I be off, with pay, on all holy days of obligation.

[eleni121]

This insanity brings to mind what happens to Christians when they attempt to practice their religious obligations in muslim dominated countries.

[Tully Pettigrew 1]

Good suggestions, I would do both.

[donna]

America should not accommodate a culture that treats women as slaves.

[Kid Shelleen]

Give them an inch and they will take a mile.

[VOA]

bump for publiciity.

And take note that I’ve added a new KEYWORD:
KEYWORD: SURRENDERTOISLAM

[freekitty]

Yep, let’s keep aiding the enemy.

[TornadoAlley3]

http://www.msamcgill.com/index.php?module=pagesetter&func=viewpub&tid=14&pid=1

Over 20 Canadian universities provide such a space, not to mention the other 130+ colleges and universities in the US.

[picard]

Molsems are fascists and they are at war with us. They demand and feel they have a natural ‘right’ to special treatment by the inferior infidel dogs.

This whole push for appeasement by a bellicose, jingoistic, cult which openly espouses their intent is to kill all who oppose them, really has given me a different insight into the social situation that led to WII.