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| University to have alcohol-free areas for Muslims |
| 2012-04-12 |
| Next up gay free areas and after that segregation of sexes area A university Vice-Chancellor is planning to ban the sale of alcohol in parts of the campus because some Muslim students believe it is "evil" and "immoral". Prof Malcolm Gillies of London Metropolitan University said he wants to create alcohol free areas on campus out of "cultural sensitivity". About a fifth of students at the university come from Muslim families -- many of them young women from traditional homes. For many of them, the drinking culture among students marred rather than heightened their student experience, he said. Prof Gillies, an eminent Australian music scholar, said that he was consulting with staff and students about creating alcohol-free areas on the universty's two campuses as part of a major redesign. It is expected that the informal dry areas will be created within the next six months. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #4 Funny - I have some Muslim friends (devout, no less - they actually keep Ramadan) who don't mind sitting at the table with me while I have a glass of wine, and don't think women need to be covered with a sacks or are good for nothing but birthing more jihadis, either. They think people like this are NUTS. Not to mention insulting. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2012-04-12 20:47 |
| #3 Universities are striving for diversity even above providing a good education. In their quest they have set up a series of tribal communities on campus. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2012-04-12 19:33 |
| #2 The view that students somehow are riotous and somehow libidinous isnÂ’t necessarily the case. And most recently of all, a "Roman Toga Party" was held from which we have received more than two dozen reports of individual acts of perversion SO profound and disgusting that decorum prohibits listing them here. |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2012-04-12 19:18 |
| #1 How about a simple process known as "Don't Drink"? Or hang around with those that do, or go to parties that serve it? Pretty simple to avoid actually. Can we get DumbAss free zones installed? I'm offended by them. The Vice Chancellor will be banned from a ever expanding zone around my body. Currently it is at 50ft, but tomorrow it will be 100ft. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2012-04-12 18:39 |