بريطانيا: الطلاب المسلمون يقاومون محاولات تشويههم

خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

أكد "محمد حراث" - المدير التنفيذي باتحاد طلاب "جامعة لندن" للاقتصاد - أنه يوجد دعاوى مسيئة ومغلوطة تتردد حول الطلاب المسلمين في محاولة لتشويه صورتهم داخل الجامعات، من خلال زعم عدم توافق الإسلام مع المجتمعات الغربية.

وأشار "حراث" في حديثه إلى صحيفة "هوفينجتون بوست" إلى أنه يوجد نحو 100 ألف طالب مسلم في "بريطانيا" ممن يعملون على خلق بيئة شاملة تضامنية معتبرة داخل الجامعات، وأن الطلاب المسلمين يتعاملون طبيعيًّا مع المجتمع، خاصةً مع وجود قرابة 3 ملايين مسلم بـ"بريطانيا"، ونحو 400 ألف تلميذ بمدارسها طبقًا للمجلس الإسلامي البريطاني، وذلك علاوة على وجود نحو 90 ألف طالب مسلم في المدارس العليا بالعديد من الدول الأوروبية؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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Demonizing UK Muslim Students

Allegations by a campus watchdog accusing Muslim students of gender segregation and extremism are inviting a storm of fury as a new attempt to demonizing the Muslim community and creating the fear that Islam is not compatible with western society.

"Organizations such as Student Rights, supposedly a "non-partisan" group, have continuously sought to ramp up fears of 'extremism' having a detrimental impact on the welfare of Muslim students," Mohamed Harrath, a student union executive at the London School of Economics, told Huffington Post UK.

"[The groups] feed into a pernicious campaign which increasingly demonizes [Muslim Students], contributing to a climate of fear and suspicion of Britain's 100,000 Muslim students who work tirelessly to build more inclusive and respectful campuses.

"There is only one voice that is speaking about extremism on campus and is completely distorts everything. Other voices must be heard."

A campus watchdog called "Student Rights" has issued a report accusing Muslim students of segregating and discriminating against women.

The group alleged that segregation forms a part of a "wider discriminatory trend on UK university campuses", saying that campuses have turned into hotbeds of extremism.

"I am distraught that, in the 21st century, British university campuses can be used to segregate and denigrate women," the group's director Raheem Kassam told The Times.

"The acceptance of segregation on campuses is a far more serious issue than previously thought."But Muslim students dismissed the claims,

accusing the group of trying to ramp up the effects of Islamophobia on Muslim students.

"Trying to focus all the attention on universities is not right. Muslim students have become defined by extremism and terrorism and it's not fair,” Harrath said.

“Extremism exists no more in universities than it does elsewhere. This idea that universities are a “breeding ground” is just not true.

"Muslim students are just normal students,” he added.

Britain is home to a sizable Muslim minority of nearly 2.7 million.

There are 400,000 Muslim students in British schools, according to the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB).

There are nearly 90,000 Muslim students studying in higher education institutions in the European country.