Gratitude.
“After Ramadan’s Conclusion, Harvard Muslim Students Criticize Religious Accommodations Policy,” by Joey Huang, Makanaka Nyandoro and Tyler J.H. Ory, Harvard Crimson, April 24, 2023 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
After Ramadan came to a close Friday, many of Harvard’s Muslim students criticized the College’s religious accommodations policy, citing challenges including a lack of adequate prayer facilities, poor accessibility, and insufficient dining options.
Ramadan, which began this year on March 22, is the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar and a holy month of fasting.
Mohamed Salam Moumie Ntieche ’26 said that though he “looks at his presence here at Harvard as a privilege” and appreciates what the College has done so far to support Muslim students, it could do more to provide adequate prayer facilities.
“People within the community are trying their best, but definitely, as a member of the Muslim community, I’ll say that I believe that the University is not doing as much as it should,” he said.
“We meet every Friday in the Lowell Lecture Hall to pray. The entire Muslim community meets in that hall, which is a big hall according to Harvard, but it’s not a big enough hall to accommodate,” he added.
Sameer M. Khan ’24 said he faced difficulties in obtaining proper accommodations for observing Ramadan during his weekly evening chemistry lab last year.
Despite his early communication with the course staff, Khan struggled to find a solution that allowed him to break his fast and engage spiritually with the holiday.
“I identified this issue really early on, actually, and I think I was in contact with the course staff starting in January of that year,” Khan said.
In response to Khan’s requests for accommodations during Ramadan, the course staff initially provided a limited solution — granting Khan a 20-minute break during the lab session to step into another room to eat and pray — but Khan said this option was insufficient.
“The accommodations created this construction of Ramadan that was solely based around this idea of breaking my fast, and being able to take that first bite and then that first sip of water, and then just go back into lab, which to me is not the experience that I’ve had with Ramadan entirely throughout my life,” Khan said.
Students also expressed their dissatisfaction with dining services, the accessibility of halal food options, and the prevalence of alcohol — whose consumption is prohibited in Islam — as an ingredient in a variety of menu options….
Jack Reynolds says
According to Sharia law:
1. Muslims are to subjugate the world under Islam (Quran 9:29).
2. Criticizing Muhammad or denying that he is a prophet is punishable by death.
3. Criticizing or denying Allah is punishable by death.
4. Criminals of genocide, mass-rape, looting etc (Hiraba) will not be punished if they repent.
5. Muslims should engage in Taqiyya and lie to non-Muslims to advance Islam.
6. Theft is punishable by amputation of the hands (Quran 5:38)
7. No retaliation for parents and grandparents for killing their offspring.
8. Amputation punishments for successive thefts: 1st left hand, 2nd right hand, 3rd left foot, 4th right foot, 5th head.
9. You can enslave for sex or work (Quran 4:3 4:24 5:89 33:50 58:3 70:30)
10. One can have sexual intercourse with a captive woman after she is clear of her period and/or delivery. If she has a husband, then her marriage is abrogated when she becomes a captive.
11. You will kill non-Muslims to receive 72 virgins in Heaven (Quran 9:111)
12. Muslim men have sexual rights to any woman/girl not wearing the Hijab. Taharrush Gamea is the coordinated seхual assault of a girl or a woman in public by a mass of Muslim men. Taharrush Gamea is not a “game” as some Muslims claim. In Arabic, Taharrush means “harassment,” Jinsi means “seхual,” and Gamea (pronounced and spelled, Jamai by non-Egyptian Muslims) means “mass” or “group.”
13. You can beat sex slaves (Quran 4:34)
14. Kill Jews and Christians if they do not convert or pay a Jizya tax (Quran 9:29)
15. You will terrorize non-Muslims (Quran 8:12 8:60)
16. A Muslim shall not be put to death for murdering an unbeliever.
17. Fight everyone in the way of Allah and kill those who disbelieve Mohammad (Ibn Ishaq 992)
18. A Muslim who becomes a non-Muslim is punishable by death.
19. A non-Muslim who leads a Muslim away from Islam is punishable by death.
20. A non-Muslim man who marries a Muslim woman is punishable by death.
21. A woman or girl who has been raped cannot testify in court against her rapist(s).
22. Testimonies of 4 male witnesses are required to prove rape of a female (Quran 24:13).
23. A woman or girl who alleges rape without producing 4 male witnesses is guilty of adultery.
24. A woman or girl found guilty of adultery is punishable by death.
25. A male convicted of rape can have his conviction dismissed by marrying his victim.
26. A woman can have 1 husband, a man can have up to 4 wives, but Muhammad can have 9.
27. A man can marry an infant girl and consummate the marriage when she is 9 years old.
28. Girls’ clitoris should be cut (Muhammad’s words, Book 41, Kitab Al-Adab, Hadith 5251).
29. A man can beat his wife for insubordination (see Quran 4:34).
30. A man can unilaterally divorce his wife; a wife needs her husband’s consent to divorce.
31. A divorced wife loses custody of all children over 6 years of age or when they exceed it.
32. A woman’s testimony in court, allowed in property cases, carries ½ the weight of a man’s.
33. A female heir inherits half of what a male heir inherits.
34. A woman cannot speak alone to a man who is not her husband or relative.
35. Meat to eat must come from animals that have been sacrificed to Allah – i.e., be “Halal.”
36. Husbands are obliged to provide only food, clothes and accommodation to wives. Anything else including doctor’s fees, medicines etc is a charity to her. A rebellious wife does not get anything.
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PRCS says
Excellent list, Jack.
But, please allow me to point out a common misconception in your post: “Sharia law”.
Sharia–the path–is the embodiment of Islamic law.
Jack Reynolds says
??? Should you not explain what that means ???
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I have no idea what you are trying to imply.
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Michael Copeland says
“Sharia” is Arabic for path. The word is a metaphor for the Islamic life, the only permitted path of life as defined by Islam’s rules, namely Islamic law. Kaffirs, according to Islam, have strayed from this path.
Kaffirs, including myself, have used the phrase “Sharia law”, but strictly speaking there is only Islamic law.
Michael Copeland says
“Easy Guide to Sharia Law” should really be retitled “Easy Guide to Islam’s Rules”.
https://gatesofvienna.net/2020/04/easy-guide-to-sharia-law/
James Lincoln says
Thanks for your definition of sharia, Michael.
somehistory says
A “path” of evil, leading to death. And its “laws” are outside, and contrary to, those of normal people in nations not ruled by islam.
Jack Reynolds says
Hot Topic … More accommodations at Harvard.
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Not An Issue … 1,000 Nigerian Christians slaughtered by Jihadi’s so far in 2023.
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Priorities, huh ???
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PRCS says
Thank you, Michael.
Specificity matters when dealing with Muslims, as they like to play Kitmān games with terminology issues.
an says
The Fall of America has begun. In fact it begun in late 1990s. When they gather on Friday ‘Juma” it is to talk how evil the rest of the non-muslim world is and how to subjugate and terrorise them. This is the strategic objective. Not prayer. Harvard is not a smart place anymore. They are stupid.
Jack Reynolds says
YES.
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If you Google ‘average IQ by country’ you’ll see that intelligence is A REAL ISSUE.
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If you head South or East out of Europe, average IQ scores fall like stepping off a cliff.
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Furthermore the following 3 human characteristics seem to be embedded together in DNA, and people tend to either have all 3, or none of them:
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1) High IQ score,
2) Ability to work well in teams,
3) Less violent.
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Rubiconcrest says
Who is more intelligent, the Muslim who makes demands or the non Muslim who kowtows to them?
Nice list of ways Islam rules.
Jack Reynolds says
Christian nations have a Centuries old tradition of waiting until their populations are REALLY PI$$ED OFF, and then they really KICK A$$.
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Just sayin’.
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Walter Sieruk says
Those Muslim students are a 2023 example of the saying “Give them an inch and they take a mile.”
What gall they have ! To be more clear yet, it should be said “What Islamic gall they have !
Kenneth Johnson says
Yes, they always want more, more, and more. Nothing less than all is enough.KEN
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SKA says
LET THEM EAT PORK!
stephen says
I do believe that when in the land of the infidel a muslim is given dispensation from allah to eat their non halal food. Of course, it`s better if they demand and are given halal food because that`s part of the plan.
Samuel Goldman says
Let them find a place off campus, pay for it them selves, like others do. Why should the school be forced to accommodate them, in other words, F–k them.
Transmaster says
How about a Ramadan MRE. just throw a pouch at them and tell them bon appétit,
Don McKellar says
It is never enoigh, dhimmi / infidel ! Only when Harvard is completely sharia will it be enough. And then various factions of muslims will fight over who is more pious, resulting in many deaths on campus. Like in all muslim countries, you can never be pure enough.
Jack Reynolds says
The number of Christians slaughtered In Nigeria this year by the Jihadis has already exceeded 1,000.
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Do you recall the Biafran Civil War ??? Islamic soldiers are already killing civilians. Things will only get worse.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-51094093
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Ade Fegan says
and of course, it never will be enough
clem.alford@talk21.com says
How about we tell followers of Islam to ‘do in Rome as Romans do’ or return to an Islamic country???
Jack Reynolds says
No one told them about the missing verse in the King James version of the Bible …
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“Wait until you are really PI$$ED and then kick A$$”.
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stephen says
That`s not part of the plan.
Daniel Bielak says
Orthodox Jews don’t demand that public and private non-Jewish places and facilities accommodate their religious practices. They make their own places and facilities and use them. Same with the adherents of all other religions except for the adherents of Islam.
Daniel Bielak says
And Western elites kow-tow to the supremacist imperialist demands of the adherents of Islam because those Western elites view Muslims as being victims (of “the perfidious Jews who persecute Muslims in Palestine” and “‘the Jews” powerful servant, the United States of America which has killed Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan in order to steal oil from Muslims.”). That’s the false narrative that is driving all of this.
Daniel Bielak says
• The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (the OIC)—the second largest international organization in the world second only to the United nations
• The oil-producing exceedingly wealthy Muslim Arab Gulf states (which fund universities in Western countries and which fund the building of mosques in Western countries
• The largest voting bloc in the United Nations
• The Islamic Republic of Iran, which funds terrorism throughout the world and publicly calls for the destruction of Israel and the United States of America
• A global population of over 2 billion
• A supremacist imperialist totalitarian genocidal religious and political ideology and system of government
• The source of most of the deadly terrorist attacks in the world (against non-Muslims and against Muslims) (currently over 43,000 since the Islamic deadly terrorist attack of 9/11)
Pious adherents of Islam are victimizers of non-Muslims., and are not victims of anyone but themselves.
The ubiquitous lies that vilify the Jewish people and Israel are true of Islam, just as they were true of Nazi Germany. And Western elites are treating Islam just as they treated Nazi Germany in the 1930’s.
Infidel mo says
Nothing is enough for them until a complete domination and am ex muslim who know how these creatures think & work!
OLD GUY says
I wonder how many of these Harvard Muslim Students are from countries that don’t allow American students into their Universities or countries. Muslims seem to think the world owes them everything, If these Muslim students don’t like it at Harvard they should go home. Accomplishes a couple things, they will be happier in thier muslim University and more American Students will be able to attend Harvard.
James Lincoln says
Remember back in the day when a parent was “so proud” that his son or daughter “got into” Harvard?
Today, I would send that parent a sympathy card…
Bikinis not Burkas says
Are they demanding a place to carry out Quran 8 12?