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| Mosque inaugurated on Tel Aviv University campus |
| 2004-10-27 |
| I wonder how much press this is getting in the arab media? Or the fact that muslims attend and learn at Tel Aviv U. Heck...I wonder what percentage of arabs even know that muslims live and worship inside Israel! Or that they have elected members of the Israeli Parliament! are those crickets I hear? A Muslim house of worship was inaugurated on the Tel Aviv University campus on Wednesday evening, in a festive ceremony. Some 1,200 Arab students study at Tel Aviv University, most of the Muslims. The mosque is located in one of the halls in the student dormitories on Einstein Street in the North Tel Aviv neighborhood of Ramat Aviv. The establishment of the mosque was initiated by the Ikra movement, a national movement that aids Arab students in institutes of higher education. Muslim students held an Aftar feast (a festive meal ending a fast day during the holy month of Ramadan) at 5:30 P.M. Afterwards a ceremony was held in the house of worship. Some 80 individuals will be able to take part in prayers at the mosque. Ufa Abu-Namr, an Ikra representative at Tel Aviv University, said Wednesday that the establishment of the house of worship was coordinated with university authorities and was given necessary authorization. |
| Posted by:PlanetDan |
| #1 I wonder how much press this is getting in the arab media? The likely answer? N-o-n-e. And if there were any press, very few readers/listeners would be capable of grasping the implications of this development. If anything, the presence of a mosque on the campus of a Jewish university would likely be viewed by the majority of Arab masses as a Muslim safehouse in the midst of enemy territory. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2004-10-27 5:37:15 PM |