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This article raises two important culturist questions -
First, when is a microcosm no longer a microcosm? At some point a pattern becomes a rule. That is why small things matter.
Second, is it more tolerant for me to tolerate your intolerance of my tolerance or is it more tolerant to be intolerant of your tolerance of my intolerance? Unfortunately, we have no choice but to devise a serious answer.
Via Gripes of Wrath comes an article from the Australian:
AUSTRALIAN universities are responsible for providing quality education, not consecrated religious spaces, according to a university involved in a bitter dispute over Muslim prayer rooms.
Dozens of Islamic students plan to protest today to demand that a dedicated Muslim prayer room replace an existing multi-faith centre at Melbourne's RMIT.
But acting pro vice-chancellor Maddy McMaster said it was not for universities to provide consecrated religious spaces.
"A university's responsibility to its students is to provide them with a quality education," she said. "Recognising that the educational experience is not confined to the classroom, RMIT offers other services, including prayer rooms. It falls to religious communities to provide the consecrated spaces."
The dispute over prayer rooms at RMIT's Swanston Street campus began when a Muslim prayer room was demolished in late 2007 as part of renovations. The university's Islamic student association claims it was promised new rooms but that the institution reneged on its promise by making them multi-faith. They are now campaigning to have the multi-faith rooms declared Muslim-only.
"As a result (of the multi-faith centre) students and staff have been forced to pray," the RMIT Islamic Society said on its website. "As a consequence of not having a Muslim prayer room on Swanston St, Muslim females have allegedly been subject to sexual abuse, harassment and religious vilification."
Organisers of the protest - which has the backing of the National Union of Students and the RMIT Student Union - say they have been left with no choice but to take action.
But Dr McMaster said the university already provided a number of prayer rooms for Muslim students across all its campuses. "It is difficult to see how we can improve on eight Muslim prayer rooms, with one more opening, as well as providing Muslim students with preferential access to two prayer rooms in the multi-faith Spiritual Centre," she said.
"(Universities) should provide quality resources for those who choose a spiritual path. But as a secular institution, such resources do not include consecrated spaces such as churches, synagogues or mosques."
NUS president David Barrow said the demand for Muslim prayer rooms was increasing and space was a problem. "With the influx of international students from Muslim countries, the Muslim prayer rooms haven't been able to cope with the load," he said.
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This article raises two important culturist questions -
First, when is a microcosm no longer a microcosm? At some point a pattern becomes a rule. That is why small things matter.
Second, is it more tolerant for me to tolerate your intolerance of my tolerance or is it more tolerant to be intolerant of your tolerance of my intolerance? Unfortunately, we have no choice but to devise a serious answer.
Via Gripes of Wrath comes an article from the Australian:
AUSTRALIAN universities are responsible for providing quality education, not consecrated religious spaces, according to a university involved in a bitter dispute over Muslim prayer rooms.
Dozens of Islamic students plan to protest today to demand that a dedicated Muslim prayer room replace an existing multi-faith centre at Melbourne's RMIT.
But acting pro vice-chancellor Maddy McMaster said it was not for universities to provide consecrated religious spaces.
"A university's responsibility to its students is to provide them with a quality education," she said. "Recognising that the educational experience is not confined to the classroom, RMIT offers other services, including prayer rooms. It falls to religious communities to provide the consecrated spaces."
The dispute over prayer rooms at RMIT's Swanston Street campus began when a Muslim prayer room was demolished in late 2007 as part of renovations. The university's Islamic student association claims it was promised new rooms but that the institution reneged on its promise by making them multi-faith. They are now campaigning to have the multi-faith rooms declared Muslim-only.
"As a result (of the multi-faith centre) students and staff have been forced to pray," the RMIT Islamic Society said on its website. "As a consequence of not having a Muslim prayer room on Swanston St, Muslim females have allegedly been subject to sexual abuse, harassment and religious vilification."
Organisers of the protest - which has the backing of the National Union of Students and the RMIT Student Union - say they have been left with no choice but to take action.
But Dr McMaster said the university already provided a number of prayer rooms for Muslim students across all its campuses. "It is difficult to see how we can improve on eight Muslim prayer rooms, with one more opening, as well as providing Muslim students with preferential access to two prayer rooms in the multi-faith Spiritual Centre," she said.
"(Universities) should provide quality resources for those who choose a spiritual path. But as a secular institution, such resources do not include consecrated spaces such as churches, synagogues or mosques."
NUS president David Barrow said the demand for Muslim prayer rooms was increasing and space was a problem. "With the influx of international students from Muslim countries, the Muslim prayer rooms haven't been able to cope with the load," he said.
www.culturism.us
- Uk: Catholic Leaders Want Muslim Prayer Rooms In Each School
Maybe if I lie quietly, the Muslims will think I'm dead, and leave me alone. Draw a hot bath. Lie down in it, and let the warmth swell around your body. Savor each voluptuous moment. Use the razor to slice the arm right up the length of the vein....
- Should You Need To Do Your Wudhu, Could You?
Even if no one understood you? An entrepeneur has developed an all-purpose Wudhu (cleansing and prayer ritual) seat for Muslims: Catering for the growing demand for multi-faith facilities in the UK, Nigel Bromilow’s company has launched the WuduSeat...
- Muslims Demand University Schedule Classes Around Prayer Time
Muslims will ask for anything, won't they? Here's my response: If I give you prayer time, while you're down on your knees, how about you suck my dick? Wudhu? From the Australian via Up Pompeii: In Australia the Muslims are "requesting that...
- Death Wish Dhimmis Pay The Jizya
Church of England donates cash to aid Muslim prayer Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent of The Times A diocese of the Church of England is giving an unprecedented £250,000 towards a multi-faith building in which the largest amount of worship space...
- It's The Deep South All Over Again ...
No, it's even worse. It's the Deep South with honor killings, female genital mutilation, stoning of gays and apostates, Beslan, 9/11, 7/7, Jihad, Arab Supremacism, the Sudanes genocide, beheading of Christian schoolgirls ... you know the story....