Muslim students at CU want prayer area

Daily Camera ^ | August 4, 2007 | Brittany Anas

[george76]

Muslim students took a break outside of their University of Colorado office, and in the hallway, positioned their prayer rugs and bodies to face northeast toward Mecca.

It was the second of the day's five ritual prayers. And, except for the echoes of clicking heels and voices, the corridor that houses dozens of other student groups was mostly quiet.

But when the fall semester starts in a few weeks, the University Memorial Center and its hallways, which double as a prayer space for the Muslim students, will once again be bustling.

Muslim students at CU have been pushing for a quiet space on campus that could be used for prayer. Kelly Brewer, a junior international affairs major and president of the Muslim Student Association...

The requests of students in Boulder are part of a larger national movement by Muslim students...

“One thing that state universities should know is that they are under no obligation to build prayer rooms that are interfaith, or prayer rooms used by one specific group,” Lynn said. “If they do use tax dollars to build an exclusively religious building they risk lawsuits by people that don’t agree with the religion that is being supported in this way.”

Critics say Muslim students are getting preferential treatment as some schools nationwide — including the University of Michigan at Dearborn, a campus that has a large Muslim population — are building footbaths for students, who use them before prayer.

Edina Lekovic, communications director for the Muslim Public Affairs Council in Los Angeles, said footbaths are not even a staple in most Muslims’ homes. She said she would rather see students pushing for a chaplain who could improve interfaith relations between different on-campus religious groups.

[magslinger]

Does CU have an Ag school?

Near or in the pig pens might be available.

[expatguy]

"Muslims are pushing for special rules everywhere in the west. The eventual goal is to put Europe and America under sharia law."

These are the peaceful moderate Muslims - they work in tandem with their violent counterparts. Submit now or you will make them angry.

America is walking headlong right into this - God help you all. You have no idea what you have done.

An American Expat in Southeast Asia

[george76]

Here is more to pi$$ us all off :

“George Mason University: non-Muslim students asked to observe Muslim rules in common prayer area And that’s just one of the accommodations being implemented in schools around the country...”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1871918/posts

[kdmhcdcfld]

Don’t forget a synagogue for the Jewish students...

[givemELL]

The Dow Jones Index is already Sharia compliant..the Wall Street Journal also?..or to be?? Sharia law is openly and legislatively being ushered in with increasing rapidity, and is beginning to accelerate here more openly...here is the link commenting on the Dow Jones Index compliance with Sharia..http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/06/the_dow_jones_islamic_index_is.html

[ken21]

>>>>>Group proposes interfaith room where all religions could gather.<<<<<

this would be a fair solution.

[george76]

Thanks.

[zeugma]

Guess what - a tanker truck came roaring down the hill but was unable to avoid the group of pilgrims. It was evening time and road vision was impaired because of a sandstorm.

Evolution in action. I suspect the Father Darwin has a soft spot in his heart for these soft-headed folk. 

[Balding_Eagle]

The striaght line may go there. However, shouldn’t they be facing the shortest direction to Mecca?

[SC Swamp Fox]

That is the shortest distance. Pilots and navigators refer to it as “the great circle” route. On a flat map, with latitude lines drawn horizontally, the course looks like an arc, but on a globe it’s a straight line that defines the shortest distance between the two points.