Up to a 1000 muslim student in Australia have protested sharing prayer rooms with Chrisitians and Jews. RMIT university had built a prayer room dedicated to muslim prayer but allowed student of other faiths to book the room as well. This of course did not go over well with the muslim umma of the university.
Mr Elrafihi said Muslim students had nothing against other faith. As long as the other faiths submit to islam. Herald SunUP TO 1000 Muslim students at RMIT are protesting against sharing a multi-faith prayer room with Christians, Jews and worshippers of other faiths.
LOL, biggest lie....
RMIT Islamic Society vice-president Mohamed Elrafihi said the university had promised Muslim students their own prayer room at the Swanston St campus.
Five refurbished multi-faith prayer rooms -- including a foot-wash room for Muslims and a prayer room with Arabic signs and oriented towards Mecca -- were opened to students earlier this year.
But Mr Elrafihi said the Islamic-themed prayer room can be booked by other religions, which would interrupt evening Muslim prayer times.
Islamic students have refused to use the new facilities, insisting one room be dedicated for use by Muslims.
"We have nothing against multi-faith, we support multi-faith," Mr Elrafihi said.
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Muslim students protest having to share prayer room
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Foot baths , what a joke !
At the U of M they put in foot baths without saying much to anyone !
when everyone found out ,A lot of people were pissed off !
I have heard of them being used as urinals- Maybe not right but at the same time funny!
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