Muslim students on a magic carpet ride outside City University
A GROUP of disenchanted Muslim students at City University in London have taken to praying outside in the street following the university’s decision to close their prayer room.
According to this report, it was replaced by a multi-faith room – which simply isn’t good enough for some of the some of the university’s pork-dodgers.
Bleated Saleh Patel, President of one of the Islamic societies at the university:
Our needs have been taken away …  Our prayer room has been taken away. We’ve been forced to pray outside. Our sisters have nowhere comfortable to go to. The prayer room used to be a place where they were comfortable and able to take off their veils.
But the university insists that providing a room for Muslim students alone it goes against its philosophy.
Said Professor Julius Weinberg, Â acting vice-chancellor:
We felt that the provision of a dedicated prayer facility to a sub-section of our Islamic students did not fit with our university’s values. We’re a secular organisation. Our university values statement says that we will not discriminate and having a dedicated prayer room actually went fundamentally against the core values of the organisation.
The prayer room was moved for safety reasons after a group of Muslim students were attacked by local youths, in what police said was a racist incident.
As well as worshipping on the street for the past few weeks, some students have also held prayers in lecture-rooms, corridors and the library.
However, not all Muslims subscribe to that view and even City University’s Islamic Society concedes that some Islamic scholars disagree with this interpretation.
Said Professor Weinberg:
There are many Muslim students belonging to another Islamic society who are very happy to use the shared faith facility we’ve provided and now feel more supported by the university.
Hat tip: BarrieJohn
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
April 2nd, 2010 at 10:35 am
Why does City University not provide Pastafarians with special kitchens in university buildings to prepare the sacred meal? Is there a dedicated space somewhere for City University students to sacrifice goats to Offler the Crocodile God before exams?
These attacks on religion must cease!
April 2nd, 2010 at 10:48 am
“We’ve been forced to pray outside. Our sisters have nowhere comfortable to go to.”
If men and women have to pray in different places, I guess the women will just have to stay indoors (probably next to the sink)! Perhaps the mysoginist mullahs will find a bright side to this after all?
April 2nd, 2010 at 11:35 am
Careful with those multicultural prayer rooms, it’ll be Royal Mail vs Holden all over again.
April 2nd, 2010 at 11:49 am
Perhaps they should be praying for a Prayer Room!
April 2nd, 2010 at 12:46 pm
Touching concern for their “sisters” there, when it suits them. Doesn’t extend to stopping treating them like cattle though, clearly.
April 2nd, 2010 at 1:06 pm
Ah didums, did the nasty University take away your prayer room? Usual whinge from the religious who want privileges above the secular. If prayer is so important to the rug-butters why don’t they do it one of their many mosques or – as I suspect – is this all part of the muzzie plan to islamify everything.
April 2nd, 2010 at 1:33 pm
I didn’t know that universities where place you went to to pray, people used to do that in designated buildings called churches, mosques etc. Give in to every idiot on the planet and his religious needs and you might as well close the uni.
April 2nd, 2010 at 1:37 pm
April 2nd, 2010 at 1:43 pm
Self important, smug, self righteous clowns: look at them, the berks. What is a place of learning and supposed rationality doing with any kind of prayer room?
April 2nd, 2010 at 2:30 pm
Wonder what they do “if wet.”
April 2nd, 2010 at 2:55 pm
Get off your knees, Catholics & Muslims! Your IMAGINARY ‘ghourd’ gave you two legs to stand on…. so you wouldn’t have to crawl like a LIZARD!
April 2nd, 2010 at 3:19 pm
Wonder what they do “if wet.â€
Perhaps their god will make sure it doesn’t rain on them. Perhaps not.
April 2nd, 2010 at 3:48 pm
Oh how thoroughly satisfying it all is. LOL @ Barriejohn.
I shall cross my fingers for snow!
April 2nd, 2010 at 3:54 pm
I shall cross my fingers for snow!
And hail. And lightning.
April 2nd, 2010 at 4:20 pm
Why have they got a prayer room in the first place? Surely a psychiatric facility would be make more sense. Why kind of education system do we have nowadays? Is this a “care in the community” thing pretending to be a university. I can’t remember this shit when I was at university, and it wasn’t that long ago. They might as well give degrees away with packets of cornflakes than give them to mentally ill muslims.
April 2nd, 2010 at 5:06 pm
At least outdoors you can see what they’re getting up to.
Nowhere to hide your suicide vests now ya bastards.
If anyone happens to drive past, please remember to run thru the puddles and sound your horn. I wonder would they scatter if I played them an mp3 of a smart bomb screaming in or a drone approaching? Muzzies are born able to recognise these sounds and take evasive action. It’s genetic, you know……
April 2nd, 2010 at 5:35 pm
Jugheads who think that education and religion mix belong in seminaries and madrasas where they can earn a degree in blindness. Universities are for Arts and Sciences. The stubborn bastards praying outside should be arrested for unlawful assembly.
NeoWolfe
April 2nd, 2010 at 7:33 pm
There are two at the front who are out of time.You’d think that five times a day would at least get all these f***ing “notrights” in sync.
I hope that door in view isn’t a fire escape,you wouldn’t want a sea of upraised arses blocking your exit or maybe you would before anyone says it.
April 2nd, 2010 at 11:11 pm
chrsbol you bastard, you owe me a new laptop – I’ve just sprayed a noseful of coffee over mine
April 3rd, 2010 at 6:15 pm
Love that picture – an entire street full of magic carpet drivers and not one can find the ‘On’ switch!
August 17th, 2010 at 11:30 pm
The UK is definitely filled with hate.