Submitted by: Nancy Battle
Muslim Students Demand Prayer Rooms in EVERY Major Campus Building
December 23, 2016 admin 0 Comments RELIGION,
) —
Muslim students at the University of Maryland are asking administrators
to put a prayer room in every major campus building as part of a long
list of demands.
Students at the University of Maryland have put together a list of 64 demands to administrators in their ProtectUMD initiative to make the campus more hospitable to “marginalized student populations,” including Muslims, Campus Reform reports.
Other
demands by Muslim students to administrators include being provided
shuttle bus services to the local mosque and a request that “their names
be kept from President-elect Donald Trump if he creates a nationwide
Muslim registry,” the Daily Mail reported.
Students said they had difficulty accessing the current prayer room and “often resorted to praying in stairwells as a result.”
Donald Trump said he is still considering the registry after the Islamic extremist attack on Berlin’s Christmas market Wednesday.
Students asked to be protected from a potential Muslim registry because the university has information on each enrolled student.
“It
would provide a sense of safety if we knew the university wasn’t the
one giving the government that information about us and feeling like our
administration is protecting us and willing to do that carries some
value,” Sarah Eshera told student newspaper The Diamondback.
Other
“marginalized” groups also included their own list of demands into the
master list. One demand from “undocumented students” would require the
University of Maryland to become a “sanctuary campus.”…
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