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.”
Do mosques accept Christians? /s
On pain of death.
6 Now these things took place as examples for us, that we might not desire evil as they did.
7 Do not be idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.”
8 We must not indulge in sexual immorality as some of them did, and twenty-three thousand fell in a single day.
9 We must not put Christ to the test, as some of them did and were destroyed by serpents, 10 nor grumble, as some of them did and were destroyed by the Destroyer.
11 Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come...
14 Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
15 I speak as to sensible people; judge for yourselves what I say.
16 The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?
17 Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread. 18
Consider the people of Israel: are not those who eat the sacrifices participants in the altar?
19 What do I imply then? That food offered to idols is anything, or that an idol is anything?
20No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons.
21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake of the table of the Lord and the table of demons.
22 Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
“Of the roughly 1,000 students attending McMurry, about 60 are Muslim and many come from Saudi Arabia, Yousef said.”
That’s a lot. How many other students are foreigners?
I wonder if this Texas Christian college has administration orchestrated gangs rapes like Southern Methodist University does?
“would a Muslim university open a prayer room for
Christians???”
No. . but Christ taught “do unto others as you would have
them do unto you”. Just don’t fellowship in the same room
with them. Don’t mistreat nobody.
Well, the Muzzi militants in Saudi Arabia have to have a base somewhere from which to monitor Dyess AFB.
You scored a 66 on the written exam.
Abilene Christian University - Church of Christ
McMurray University - United Methodist - but probably a more conservative alternative to SMU
AND
Hardin Simmons University - liberal Baptist General Convention of Texas (Southern Baptist) but probably a more conservative alternative to Baylor
Texas Tech also offers some classes in Abilene, and Cisco College is a county or so over, but we won't count them.
A puzzle, until I learned it’s a Methodist school. They flack John Wesley’s name on one hand, while continuously discounting the Scriptures on the other. After ordaining sodomites, what sacrilige is left, except homage to a heathen moon god?
Muslims don’t require a special prayer room. They pray where they are, on a rug, piece of cardboard, etc. That’s why they pray on sidewalks, streets, in their bedroom, etc.
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