إنجلترا: جامعة المدينة بفينسبيري تغلق المسجد أمام الطلاب

تاريخ الإضافة: 2/3/2010 ميلادي - 16/3/1431 هجري

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قام الطلاب المسلمون بـ"جامعة المدينة" الإنجليزية بتنظيم احتجاج للتعبير عن غضبهم؛ بسبب قيام "جامعة المدينة" بمقاطعة "فينسبيري" بوسط "إنجلترا" بإغلاق الحجرة التي كانت قد خصصتها كمسجد للمسلمين من طلاب الجامعة، بعد أن قامت العصابات بطعن أربعة من طلاب الجامعة المسلمين، وأشارت إلى أن بقاء هذا المكان كمسجد يمثل خطرًا أمنيًّا.

وقامت الجامعة بتوفير صالة ليمارس أصحاب الديانات المختلفة شعائرهم بما في ذلك المسلمين، الذين اعترضوا على هذا الإجراء وطالبوا الجامعة بإفرادهم بمكانهم المخصص للصلاة.

الخبر من مصدره الأصلي:

Muslim students in worship row at uni

HUNDREDS of Muslim students and staff have turned Northampton Square into a makeshift mosque after university bosses padlocked their prayer room.

For the past week, Muslims at City University in Finsbury have endured the wind, rain and snow to pray three times a day on the pavement.

And at Friday lunchtime, up to   350 students and staff turned out for the weekly congregational prayer. Shafiq Mundiya,   26  , a technical support officer, said: "We need a place to pray and we have been praying outside to tell people that we are upset and that we want our prayer room back.

"The prayer room was constantly being used by staff and students. The fact that the university closed it is quite devastating".

A   23  -year-old undergraduate from Clerkenwell added: "The only place available was outside in the street. So that's where we went. We tried to keep the path as open as possible. We didn't want to disrupt people".

For   10  -plus years, the university's Muslims have performed several of their five daily prayers in the basement of the Gloucester Building in Whiskin Street, Finsbury.

Students say it was used by about   100 people a day, and up to   450 on Friday lunchtimes. But City University decided it was not safe to keep it open after four Muslim students were stabbed in St John Street by racist thugs in November. The   23  -year-old undergraduate said: "We have had no problems with that gang since. They have even approached one of us, apologised and said it was a misunderstanding".

Last Monday, the Gloucester Building prayer room was padlocked and Muslim students were directed to a new multi-faith room nearer the centre of the university. But campaigners say they cannot use a room that is also for the worship of other deities and that it only has space for   40 men and   40 women.

City University's student union is calling on the university to provide both a multi-faith room and a separate Muslim prayer room. President Nikhil Cumlajee said: "All people of faith should be allowed to practise their religion on campus. All our faith societies consulted [Hinduism, Jewish, Islamic, Ahlul Bayt, Christian] believe they should have access to a multi-faith room and are also happy to fully support the requirements of people who practise Islam on campus and their needs for a separate space".

City University's Islamic Society, which is not organising the protest, said it "hoped to come to some kind of resolution soon with the university".

City University said it created the multi-faith room after consulting with Muslim scholars and looking at what other higher education institutes had done. A spokeswoman said: "Following the incident last year, the university responded to concerns from students about their safety by finding alternative space in a more central location of the campus.

"Practice in other universities show many Muslims pray where others have been - City has already seen its new space used by some of its Muslim students.

"The booking and reservation system will ensure the timetable can be managed and that Muslims and others have time to conduct their individual prayers or reflection.

"The university has never provided space to accommodate   400 Muslims for prayers.

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