Posted on 02/24/2008 8:07:36 PM PST by LibWhacker
MUSLIM university students want lectures to be rescheduled to fit in with prayer timetables and separate male and female eating and recreational areas established on Australian campuses.
International Muslim students, predominantly from Saudi Arabia, have asked universities in Melbourne to change class times so they can attend congregational prayers. They also want a female-only area for Muslim students to eat and relax.
But at least one institution has rejected their demands, arguing that the university is secular and it does not want to set a precedent for requests granted in the name of religious beliefs.
La Trobe University International chief officer John Molony said several students had approached the Bundoora institution about rearranging class times to fit in with daily prayers.
Mr Molony said the university was attempting to "meet the needs" of an increasing number of Muslim international students, including doubling the size of the prayer room on campus.
La Trobe University International College director Martin Van Run said that although it was involved in discussions with the Muslim students who had made the requests, the university was not planning to change any timetables.
"That would seriously inconvenience other people at the college and it is not institutionally viable," he told The Australian. "We are a secular institution ... and we need to have a structured timetable."
Mr Van Run said that Saudi students were fully aware that the university was secular before coming to study there. "They know well in advance the class times," he said.
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Yeah go back whatever desert hole you come from Students HELLO
Official reply should be.
LOL. Get you ass back to the desert!
ROTFLMAO.........Dream on ugly man
I got question where is Islamic rage boy?
What he doing right now
Maybe it’s just me, but I like female company for dining and recreation.
I think the universities should fit a pigskin boot up their butts.
muslims like spending quality time with goats -or young boys.
Didn’t the Aussie PM address such demands some time back? Basically he said if you don’t like the way we do thing, then leave....
Muslims. Move in. Take over.
By 2012, they will want all answers on the tests to be quotes from The Qu’ran.
NO they want all answers in Arabic LOL!
Surely, they knew the University to be a secular institution when they applied. Surely, they know that as a secular institution the university would not suppose to favor one religion over another, if they even recognized the concept of religion (some in the US don’t, IMO).
Best response? They might find a university more fitting to the needs and dictates of their barbaric cult in some other, more hospitable country.
Time to put a stop to this madness. The PC multi-culti crowd is shoving our freedoms right down the sewer, in favor of these seventh century freaks. It really is time to stop it.
Islam has been at war with civilzation for over 1400 years, and seems bent on another 1400 if needed, to assure the success of their global caliphate, as demanded by the lunatic ravings of their pedophile prophet, and recorded in their playbook, the quran.
They sicken freedom loving people, everywhere.
And, good on the school that said No to this madness.
All I want to know is whether Kangaroo steaks are Halal?
Get your monkey buttocks back to Saudi Arabia, or whatever country you are from, and quit your whining. Western Countries do not have to bend to the will of jihadis.
Ping.
I know nothing about the university experience in Australia but, in the US, most students are able to select their courses in such a way as to accommodate sleeping in, Fridays off and a part time job.
If these students who are enjoying the generosity, hospitality and educational opportunities afforded by Australia can’t find a way to accommodate their personal prayer schedules then perhaps they are not smart enough for the complexity of the subjects covered at the university level.
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