“Hamza says he faced multiple accounts of Islamophobia when he was young with many ‘comments and slurs’ made towards him. ‘This is a problem a lot of Muslim children and adults still currently face; especially if you’re visibly Muslim – you do get second glances if you don’t live in a predominantly Muslim area.'”
Comments, slurs, and second glances. Apparently if anyone is not wholly obsequious to Muslims at all times, he or she is guilty of “Islamophobia.” Welcome to the new Britain.
I’ve gotten plenty of comments, slurs and second glances over the years, as has every other human being on the planet. Where’s our prayer room?
Note that Hamza wants the Warwick campus under constant surveillance to stamp out “Islamophobia.” The free world, we used to call it.
“Islamophobia fears prompt call for more prayer rooms at Warwick University,” by Priyanka Patel, Coventry Telegraph, December 18, 2022:
According to the All Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims, the definition of Islamophobia is “rooted in racism and is a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness”. Islamophobia Awareness Month is a campaign founded in 2012 by a group of Muslim organisations to raise awareness of Islamophobia in society and showcase the positive contributions of Muslims.
A report on ‘Inclusivity at university – Muslim students experiences’ at Kings College stated that universities across the UK are becoming more ‘multicultural and diverse’ with nearly 330,000 Muslims in higher education. However, a diverse student population doesn’t necessarily mean an integrated and more cohesive university.
At The University of Warwick , a campaign was held for Islamophobia Awareness Month in November called ‘Stand Up Against Islamophobia to highlight how Islamophobia manifests within society and wider culture. Masters student Hamza Rehman, also the Vice President Postgraduate Officer at Warwick Students Union organised and ran the campaign to raise political awareness.
Hamza says he faced multiple accounts of Islamophobia when he was young with many ‘comments and slurs’ made towards him. “This is a problem a lot of Muslim children and adults still currently face; especially if you’re visibly Muslim – you do get second glances if you don’t live in a predominantly Muslim area.”
Hamza’s aim was to get students to understand how Islamophobia manifests in different ways. “I wanted to create a space where Muslim students can have comfortable conversations about their experiences on campus or in general and how the general student population can support their Muslim students,” he said….
Hamza has been in talks with the Islamic society who have had issues with prayer facilities. “The lack of facilities to pray has prevented students from coming in due to lack of capacity and rooms to hold enough students; especially for Friday/Jummah prayers,” he said.
“This is a form of Islamophobia as this is preventing Muslim students from expressing their faith, which means not supporting them, so more rooms and more spaces need to be available.”
The prospect of Muslim students being put under surveillance, in keeping with the Government’s Prevent Policy, is also a worry.
“The Prevent policy has affected student’s freedom of speech and voicing opinions on issues like colonialism and racism due to this policy, i.e. the idea of surveilling prayer rooms and the type of library search Muslim students may conduct gets flagged up,” Hamza said.
A 2018 NUS survey found one-third of Muslim students felt they had been negatively affected by Prevent. Examples included events organised by Muslim students being cancelled or significantly changed, or students disengaging from political debate due to concerns about being referred to Prevent.
“There needs to be better support for Muslim students in light of this policy to not demonise them and tackle the culture that’s currently on campus in terms of surveillance,” said Hamza.
From now on Hamza wants more students to come in and talk about their experiences of Islamophobia. “There needs to be a better safe space for students and staff whether that’s via consultation, a survey or a forum – I am working with the university and the union to create a Muslim student consultation forum so concerns and addressed and policy proposals better reflect their experiences,” he said.
The University of Warwick said: “Warwick is proud to be a diverse, inclusive and supportive community, which welcomes people from all faiths. Prayer spaces are available at three different locations around campus – including our Islamic Prayer Hall, which can accommodate up to 1,500 worshippers, and is described by our Islamic Student Society as a ‘fantastic facility and focal point of our community’….
Mark Spahn says
Muslims have the same problems as beautiful women: ‘This is a problem a lot of Muslim children and adults still currently face; especially if you’re visibly Muslim – you do get second glances if you don’t live in a predominantly Muslim area.’
James Lincoln says
I’d rather catch a glance of the beautiful women, Mark.
Keith O says
I wonder what the reaction would be if there were counter calls for Christian, Jewish and Hindu prayer rooms at the university?
You know, just to be fair and inclusive of course! Or would that be Islamophobic?
Odd how my spell check still refuses to identify “islamophobia”, must not be a real word!
Deodata says
Add it to your dictionary, use LanguageTool, it’s good and you can use the free version.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
How does a prayer room solve the ‘issue’ of ‘islamophobia’? I thought silencing infidels was the solution to that, and has been widely tried
clem.alford@talk21.com says
Too true.
John ..Smith says
Happy New Year to Mr Spencer and his colleagues, and all the good people that visit this site.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Happy New Year to you as well, John. And everybody else
John ..Smith says
Happy New Year to Mr Spencer and his colleagues, and all the good people that visit this site.
Aum says
Happy New Year to all the readers & staff.
Muslims can pray anywhere they do not need a special room.
clem.alford@talk21.com says
They take over streets. Go to Regent Park mosque on a Friday.Traffic comes to a stsndstill..
Deodata says
Does the university cater for other religions the same as Islam? I’ll have a guess that Muslim prayer spaces are the only religious spaces.
Jayell1 says
Here’s a quote from the Warwick University Chaplaincy website:-
‘The University of Warwick Chaplaincy provides a safe space for students and staff of all faiths and none to reflect and be heard.’
‘Safe’ for all students and staff – except muslims, apparently. I tried to find a photo of the Warwick University chapel, if there ever was one (very unlikely, since the UK’s new Universities weren’t built them), but found nothing specified except pictures of a charming local parish church that didn’t seem anything like as large as the 1,500 seat Islamic Prayer Hall’ of which Warwick University is apparently so proud – and that’s not including the three other ‘Prayer Rooms’ dotted around the campus that no other faith has. So what else does this insidious impostor Hamza think he can grab for himself and his chums?
Several of Hamza’s pronouncements are interesting, in particular:-
1. “There needs to be better support for Muslim students in light of this policy (against cancellation or alteration of muslim events or disengagement of muslim speakers due to concerns from the anti-terrorist ‘Prevent) to not demonise them and tackle the culture that’s currently on campus in terms of surveillance”. So Hamza wants to circumvent the efforts of UK security to maintain safety and also wants to ‘tackle’ the culture that upholds it even though we all know that if anyone who’s ‘tackling’ anyone else’s culture, is the likes of Hamza & Co. are clearly out to wreck British culture.
2. “I am working with the university and the union to create a Muslim student consultation forum so concerns and addressed and policy proposals better reflect their experiences” – but, apparently, no one else deserves a ‘consultation forum’, no doubt because that would imply publicly stating a few home truths about islam and its deluded cronies, and specimens like Hamza are never remotely interested in anyone’s experiences apart from their own.
Also, the ‘Islamic Prayer Hall, which can accommodate up to 1,500 worshippers, and is described by our Islamic Student Society as a ‘fantastic facility and focal point of our community’…. Well, they got that bit right, because the ‘islamic community’ is most certainly NOT the wider British community, never was and hopefully never will be since it’s completely incompatible with absolutely anything that the UK has stood for over the last 1,500 – 2,000+ years; and that includes the entire ethos of British Universities such as Warwick, so one has to ask NOT if these pernicious charlatans of pseudo-civilisation require any support, but what the hell they think they’re doing at a place like Warwick University – or anywhere in the UK – in the first place.
clem.alford@talk21.com says
Yusuf Hamza is a trouble maker and racist. Said there are too many white Scots in the Scottish Parliament..
Siddi Nasrani says
Well in that case there are too many Blacks in the South African Parliament.
davidafoot says
So, the Quran promotes diversity and lots merry Christmases all over the place and Christian churches and Christian “prayer rooms” and gathering places in Mecca?
Whatever you do, see through this abominable tyranny for England’s sake. Islam must not become a majority religion, look at the Batley terrorists forcing an ENGLISH TEACHER in to hiding. There is no freedom of speech in Islam or in terrorist Batley.
Quran 8:12 and 8:17 turns them in to a very dangerous uncivilized mob/ gang acting AS if THEY were their false god. The traitor UK Marxists enemies of England and of Merit and of freedom, supporters of “anti-English diversity” or anything which is against England, they just love Moslems because then they are not the only ones who hate England.
goddam77 says
Universities and education would benefit from a version of a holocaust museum where students learn of the 1400 years of tyranny and evil of Islam, it’s genocide of infidels and any culture that got in the way of it’s mad expansion.
Muslims need a pathway to escape the chains of Sharia and bondage to the tyranny of their rulers
Jedothek says
The All Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims ought to be ignored on the ground that they say that Islamophobia is a type of racism. This failure to distinguish between religion and race is due to ignorance, stupidity, or, most likely, dishonesty.