“Prior to me becoming Director of Diversity and Inclusion, Omar Rana, our last Director of Diversity and Inclusion worked very closely with international students. He was informed that international students who wore hijabs were being forced to leave campus because there was no place on campus where they could eat. Omar collaborated with Precious Porras the Director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs and they decided to transform one of their rooms into the women’s lunch room to create a safe place for these students to eat.” The place is “mainly for women on campus who require a safe space to eat lunch due to religious attire that cannot be removed in public.”
When is the University of Kansas installing holy water fonts? Torah scrolls?
“University of Kansas maintains women’s-only lunchroom for Muslims,” by Justin Caruso, College Fix, January 19, 2017 (thanks to Lookmann):
The University of Kansas maintains a women’s-only lunchroom that’s largely utilized by Muslim students, a venue billed as a “safe place” for them.
“It is mainly used by Muslim women because it allows them a space to remove [their] hijabs and eat,” said Abdoulie Njai, KU Student Senate director of diversity and inclusion, in an email last week to The College Fix.
The room, open on weekdays from noon to 1 p.m. in the public university’s Office of Multicultural Affairs, is open to all female students — but in particular it allows female Muslim students to eat in a segregated, private area.
The lunchroom debuted a year ago. A campus spokesperson confirmed to The College Fix that it’s still in use today but declined to comment further.
According to Njai, “it has become very popular and many students utilize the space.”
Njai added it’s something of a “safe place” for them.
“Prior to me becoming Director of Diversity and Inclusion, Omar Rana, our last Director of Diversity and Inclusion worked very closely with international students. He was informed that international students who wore hijabs were being forced to leave campus because there was no place on campus where they could eat,” he told The Fix. “Omar collaborated with Precious Porras the Director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs and they decided to transform one of their rooms into the women’s lunch room to create a safe place for these students to eat.”
When the lunchroom debuted in February 2016, an article in the campus newspaper The University Daily Kansan also quoted Rana as calling it a place “mainly for women on campus who require a safe space to eat lunch due to religious attire that cannot be removed in public.”…

James P Sullivan says
We let them inside the door, they will take over our house
miriamrove says
And that is exactly the Islamic philosophy. Inch by inch, they take over. m
myworld2 says
that’s not inclusion in my book ……to me that is exclusion …unless you intend to convert everyone to their faith ….maybe that’s it ….well , wrong move in my book …
Westman says
It is completely incongruent, inconsistent, and false to seek seclusion and then claim discrimination for being ignored or regarded as “other”.
The Quran instructs Muslims to not befriend unbelievers, Christians, or Jews. Are there some believers from outer space hiding among us?
Pal says
Mr Robert Spencer, All, just wishing to let you know, that my appr 10-15 posts from the past 3-4 days beneath various publications of Jihad Watch was Shamefully Removed !!!!
I would very much like to know Why that was done ????
For what reason ????
Who the “moderators” are ????
Are they Already penetrated – and by whom ????
Who controls them – if they have enough brain on their shoulders ?????
What cause do they serve – Mr Robert Spencer, is it related to you – sorry if not – and could you check it up ????
john spielman says
I don’t think JIHAD WATCH removes any posts! if there was a large number of posts on a subject they may be on previous page
mgoldberg says
Okay…. your complaint is registered…. now
Post one of your replies to one of the posts on this site, and let’s take a good look at it. Make up another gmail address and it no doubt will go thru. Make a name up, and reply to this one, and then everyone can see if what you say is with meaning, or something else.
gravenimage says
Pal, if you think a post of yours may have bee removed, you can contact Jihad Watch at the “Contact Us” box at the right-hand side or bottom of the page, depending on your screen configuration.
Bob Smyth says
I wonder what would happen if a Jewish female student attempted to eat lunch in this designated room? Would it no longer be considered a “safe space” for female Muslim students because of the presence of someone that the Qur’an deems to be “unclean”? No doubt the room has been “justified” as “available” to all female students. But, in practice, it will only be “available” to female Muslim students.
PRCS says
Only one way to find out?
Bets on whether a Jewish student will actually do that?
Or–as you suggest–any filthy kuffar.
Of greater importance, will anyone there actually point out that the need for that ridiculous, segregated “safe space” is a scam, for–as Muslims themselves say–“the veil” is a choice, not a requirement–and put that nonsense to rest.
boakai ngombu says
may transgenders, or, jihadis in disguise use this room
Kay says
First, I don’t agree with the room; it’s part of the same plan of holding up burka as a desirable choice. And it has the effect of segregating the Muslimas and so keeping them away from learning other religions.
But since they are having it, my hope is that Jewish and Christian girls would go in , at least two at a time and covered in prayer, with the hope of broadening the Muslimas awareness. Or maybe some older “church ladies” could go –bring goodies and the Good Word.
Kay says
Whoops! It looks like I got taken in I thought for a minute –how can we make this work for both of us
But on second thought. IT IS UTTERLY RIDICULOUS FOR THEM TO HAVE A SEPARATE ROOM. Mostly for the precedent it sets. Then do we need–separate swimming times? separate men’s classes? It can go on and on.
Even in a preschool, the only thing that isn’t open to both genders is the bathrooms. So by University, separate bathrooms, locker rooms (and bedrooms if they board) seems enough.
gravenimage says
Good question, Bob.
andra says
That is exactly the way Islamisation started in Europe. The Muslim comunity asked for one or another special treatment. They reeeaally neeeeed a seperate room for eating, because their religion demands for it.
Can anyone explain me why these foreigh students come to the USA for studying? If I went to a moslemic country – which I would never do because I don´t want to live their way – I would accept their rules, their traditions and their laws. Why can´t they do the same thing?
And can anyone explain to me why there are always those in power who fall to their knees as soon as Muslims demand for an extra treat?
EmHotep says
NO TOLERANCE GO THAT PLACE AND DESTROY IT. GET ORGANISED. YOU CANNOT FIGHT AGAINST ISLAM LIKE A GIRL.
Diane Harvey says
The “Director of Diversity and Inclusion” begins her work by excluding others from one of the school’s places.
Only in the mind of the left.,
PRCS says
As I read it, she begins her work by continuing that farce.
Kay says
Leftists are trying the same over race. Idiotic!
eur says
Safe space?
This reminds me of the argument that Muslims wield to explain why women wear veils … to protect themselves (from whom they protect themselves ?from Muslim men). The same happens with yizia and dimmitud, the dimmis are “protected”…. why should we be protected? From whom do they protect us? Of the Muslims themselves.
The danger is “the Muslims and their world”, without Islam there is no danger.
Keith says
Best definition of the safe space I have heard well done.
gravenimage says
Yes–it says right in the “holy” texts of Islam that Muslim women wear the veil so they will “not be molested” by Muslim men.
john spielman says
under strict sharia law and conservative islam, these muslimahs should NOT EVEN BE ALLOWED INTO UNIVERSITY, they are not allowed outside the home except in the accompaniment of a male relative and must be completely covered in black garbage bags/ rather they should stay at home
gravenimage says
All true–and if Islam takes over they will not be allowed into university. But they are useful in “Islamoforming” the West now.
Tjhawk says
‘International students who wore hijab a were being forced to leave campus because there was no place on campus where they could eat.’
Forced to leave campus?? By whom?? Surely not by KU or any of its students.
No place on campus where they could eat?? They COULD eat absolutely ANYWHERE on campus and they would NOT be asked to leave.
It is only their own supremacist complex that gives them the prerogative to think of the other Jayhawks on campus as not good enough to eat with them!
I know ‘the Hill’ ( KU campus). And I’m pretty sure these muslimas experience very little blow back because of their hijabs.
A proud (but currently disappointed) Jayhahwk.
Rock Chalk
Infidel Task Force says
How about a “Whites Only” or maybe “Blacks Only”? Since we are talking about religion…maybe Catholics only or Jews only?
Hindus Only? Latinos? Asians?
Actually the muslims have put a veil over administrations eyes. This is how it starts.
And most of the intelligent people still know that the veil is a choice, not a requirement. So we are not fooled, but college leaders are totally ignorant and continually put the rest of us in danger.
“muslim women only”??
Talk about the failure to integrate. Yep.
Adrian says
Universities are about expanding your horizons and interacting with many other peoples and cultures…
This is nothing other than primitive tribalism… shameful
Peter says
Why not a nudists-only lunchroom for nudists, too? There is no end to the possibilities of exclusive treatment, except of course, a men-only room!
gravenimage says
Nudists would never make such a demand, though.
pdxnag says
Safe space, only from Muslim men.
Arthur says
That’s the safe space the entire world needs.
Is a space safe according to who can go there or who can’t? Is there a difference between the two?
Under what University rule is it permitted to exclude any particular gender from a room? Is any reason sufficient? Who decides?
LaLa says
So they are discriminating against all the other students, really!!!! Since when are universities allowed to discriminate against an entire body of students except muslims? If I were at the school I would make a point to eat my lunch in there and encourage others to join me. This is a public University? Or is it a private University?
The student body of Christians and Jews and Men and Whites and Blacks should demand a private lunch room as well, really?
Absolutely ridiculous, truely
Achmed says
Whatever you do .. do NOT take a bacon sandwich, on white bread. If so, more than likely, you will be extradited to the UK and do one year, at hard labor. However, since the mohammedans run the prisons, in the UK .. you will be murdered within six months.
One must admire the UK … an imam rapes a young, minor aged girl .. is convicted .. but only receives six months or probation.
A mohammedan rapes and brutalizes a five year old, little boy .. and NO jail time.
So, if you do use that room, do so at your own risk … and do NOT take a bacon sandwich.
University of Kansas .. should it not be controlled by Germany, where convicted gang rapists receive suspended sentences … Or, at the very least .. give it to the UK, where those that rape little children do not even receive a slap on the wrist.
UK, Germany, Sweden … coming to a state public university near you.
Angemon says
I expect “feminists” to be outraged against what’s effectively gender and religious based segregation.
Any minute now, any minute…
Ren says
Pandering to stupid traditions makes the society stupid.
Infidel in TX says
So, since it’s mainly for female students, then it’s not exclusively for them. So it’d be okay if I ate my lunch in there?
“mainly for women on campus who require a safe space to eat lunch due to religious attire that cannot be removed in public.”
Cameron says
Male and female washrooms? Transphobic, hererosexist, old fashioned, bigoted.
Female only lunchrooms? A sign of how wonderfully progressive you are.
Suppose a man demanded access to this room because he “identifies” as female?
gravenimage says
Yes–no logic to this at all.
Lor says
Just make sure he enters dressed for the occasion.
davej says
“can’t be removed in public”? Only in their own minds, there is no such law. This is all about claiming territory, like the no-go zones in Europe. Next come the demands for segregated libraries, movie theaters and swimming pools. Then Muslim-only coaches on Amtrak, special hotel rooms where kafirs never stay and on and on.
Muslims are experts on the sword and in applying the thin edge of it. Remember they think they are “the best of people” and deserve special rights, so they demand them, knowing that the “pigs and dogs” will give them up enthusiastically.
CommoHull says
Or how about this one….Can a campus stud eat there if he identifies as a woman?
brane pilot says
If people find our customs in the West so loathsome, they really should leave.
Pandering to every Third World cultural pathology is not the answer.
The Xenophobia is what is coming here from elsewhere.
It is not home grown.
Pandering to it simply makes it worse.
DFD says
That’s how it started, among other things/matters over here. And it gets more and more and more and….
Greetings from Europe
EmHotep says
My friend western people will never understand and see the danger, “That’s how it started, among other things/matters over here. And it gets more and more and more and….” & at the end you are dead …
Greetings from Turkey
Maybe they need a good huge terror event to understand..
DFD says
Friend, I am in 80% agreement. Perhaps even 100%, but one mustn’t give hope, as forlorn as it seems.
gravenimage says
We’ve already had plenty of major terror events, thanks to Islam and co…
Walter Sieruk says
Be it sharia law at the University of Kansas or any other institution in this nation , Sharia law is unAmerican and wrong.
The message needs to be made known to all the Muslims who live in the United States of America who dislike and maybe even despise the US Constitution and would like to replace it with Sharia law. Those same Muslims instead in trying to force Sharia law on American citizens and their nation those are free to leave and really should leave the USA and then go to live in either Shii ‘ite, Iran or Sunni , Saudi Arabia if they actually feel the Sharia law is the grand, great and wonderful .
Moreover, all this is a strong reminder of the wise words declared by Theodore Roosevelt in a speech. “There can be no fifty –fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only one hundred percent Americanism , only for those who are Americans and nothing else.”
To explain this in a very simple short way, this country Is America .Not Iran.
gravenimage says
Yes–every state should pass laws against the imposition of Shari’ah law.
on the ridge says
What next? Are they going to demand Sharia law because the USA laws make them feel uncomfortable? Are they going to demand a force of Religious Police just to make sure that they are complying with dress codes so the Muslim men don’t feel the need to rape them if they are showing too much of a wrist or a bit of hair? I think the men at the school should march into the cafeteria and plunk themselves down and say that they are not going to take any of this nonsense, or are they a bunch of wimps?
Somebody says
fuck allah but use a condom !!!!!!!
Victoria says
This university safe space needs a transgender/fluid student to liven things up.
marina says
Does a muslima need to remove her hijab to eat? Ridiculous ! A muslima cannot eat in front of a man or what. If they can sit in the class with male students then there shouldn’t be a problem eating. The stupid university is buying that nonsense.
Havoc says
Muslims have no business in America
Kay says
Wait! I thought I read this and now I’m confused. Hijab, right? The face shows, right? WHY in the world would they need to remove it to eat???
Lor says
“It is only their own supremacist complex that gives them the prerogative to think of the other Jayhawks on campus as not good enough to eat with them!”
I really agree with Kay here. It might take the average citizen a decade at least to perceive this nuance (?) – that ultimately, the wearing of the hijab between Muslim women themselves is a frown upon those “free-wild” western women and the immoral western world.
If more people understood this foundational fact, less would run around cheering “Allah-u-Akbar” as a sign of solidarity!
gravenimage says
Sharia at University of Kansas: Women’s-only lunchroom for Muslimas
……………………..
Because the cannot remover their Hijabs in front of men or even “filthy Infidel” non-Muslim women. Catering to this Muslim supremacy and oppression of women is madness.
And this is at the University of Kansas–right in the American Heartland.
trish says
What utter tosh. A Muslim female wearing a head covering ( this is an English language site, so why should I or you care about its Arabic name? Just knowing and using all these Arabic terms illustrates not our tolerance and empathy, but our Islamisation by stealth)) is perfectly able to eat both physically and religiously in public. There is no compunction or necessity for them to remove their head coverings while outside their homes, anywhere..
Having watched black-draped unfortunates attired in head to toe black, with face veils and gloves on top, attempt to eat in public, a disgusting and unhygienic and demeaning sight, I might concede a case to be made for them.
But for these arrogant young be-hijabbed students, so full of their pride in their covering and their insistence it is solely their choice, no concession at all. They fight for the right to thrust their religion in our faces. So be it. But suck up the inconveniences, ladies.
Josephus says
What do they mean by : Safe place.? So, i understand that the US is not a safe place for Hijab wearers! If I went to a place and found it unsafe, I would leave, right? So, it is the university chiefs who have been paid by some Islamic bank to build “safe places”. BUT, who paid for building the safe places for Muslims? If the money came from a Muslim bank outside the US I would ask another question. Is this bank associated with any Islamic terrorist group ? I am sure that it would be a YES. If so, then these Muslim students would be supporters if terrorism and would be extradited. On the other hand if the building funds came from US, then the non Muslim students and their families are being short funded on other projects. These laws are called ; SEGREGATION. OBAMA STARTED THIS AND THE US HAS FALLEN INTO THE MUSLIM TRAP .
Patricia Wolcott says
So what happens when all the bikers attending the university decide they are self identifying as balareenas or the wrestlers identifying as tiny dancers want to eat lunch safely???
Gale says
What happens if female Christian wants to silently sit and read her Bible while eating a BLT sandwich in this safe space for women on campus? Will she be asked to leave because she is Chistian and wants to read her Bible in this safe space for women? Will she be asked to leave because she has pork in her sandwich while eating lunch in this safe place for women? Will a transgender student who identifies as a female, and still has all the male anatomy, be allowed to eat lunch in this safe space for women?