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| Muslim students to protest over prayer rooms | |
| 2009-03-22 | |
MELBOURNE Muslim university students will protest on Monday, saying they are being sexually harassed and discriminated against due to a lack of prayer rooms.
The RMIT Islamic Society want muslim only prayer rooms on the university's city campus. In late 2007, construction work on the building that contained a dedicated Muslim prayer room meant the facility was demolished. The Islamic society said the university reneged on its promise to replace that with another room. "As a result, students and staff have been forced to pray outside in the heat of summer and the cold of winter,'' the society's website said. It alleged females have been subjected to sexual abuse, harassment and religious vilification while praying. Probably from their fellow muslims who consider them uncovered meat. They are now forced to pray two at a time in cramped women's rooms, corridors and empty classrooms. The society said "enough is enough'', insisting it was sick of being given the run around and would hold a mass protest at the university on Monday afternoon. "No longer can we remain quiet and have students compromise between their safety and prayers, RMIT made a promise, it must fulfil it,'' the website said. But the university described the action as "unfortunate and unnecessary''. There are already eight Muslim prayer rooms across the university's three campuses, Dr Maddy McMaster, Acting Pro Vice-Chancellor (Students) said. "The university's policy is that prayer rooms in its spiritual centre are multi-faith, open to bookings by members of all faiths,'' she said. Muslims get preferential access to two of those rooms. And how much you want to bet they have monopolized the others with threats of 'outrage'?? "With space at a premium on our city campus, we have bent over backwards to find an amicable solution,'' she said. Gestures of good faith have been rejected, she insisted. "Multi-faith spaces are commonly accepted as supporting a range of religious practices, including those of the Muslim faith. "It is disappointing that the RMIT Islamic Society chooses to reject established multi-faith principles,'' she said. That's because Islam is the 'religion' of intolerence and war. The society did not respond to AAP requests for comment. | |
| Posted by:CrazyFool |
| #9 WAFF > [NEWSWEEK] TURKEY'S SECRET POWER BROKERS: THE ISLAMISTS AREN'T GETTING RID OF TURKEY'S DEEP STATE BUT REPLACING IT WITH THEIR OWN. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-03-22 19:31 |
| #8 In America, make it next to the navitiy room, problem solved. |
| Posted by: Galactic Coordinator Omavising9607 2009-03-22 18:19 |
| #7 As long as the complaints are considered, there will be more. And they will get more and more rediculous. The Aussies can stop it if they have the will. We can too. |
| Posted by: Richard of Oregon 2009-03-22 18:07 |
| #6 Fuck them and the camel they rode in on. |
| Posted by: Last Breath Farm Resident 2009-03-22 17:26 |
| #5 Whiny little boys, too, Steve. Not to mentioned endangered.... |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2009-03-22 16:25 |
| #4 Sheesh. Whiny little girls would be embarrassed and annoyed to be around Muslim students. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2009-03-22 16:12 |
| #3 They don't want equality, they want preferential treatment. |
| Posted by: Parabellum 2009-03-22 16:00 |
| #2 Let them do what every other religious group does, and save their pennies until they can buy a small property near the campus to turn into a masjid. Of course, then they'll have to either hire a caretaker or find volunteers amongst themselves to do the work, but that's what all the other groups have to do, too. Equality requires work. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-03-22 15:12 |
| #1 Let 'em pray on Pork Chop Hill... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2009-03-22 13:39 |