Students have been locked out of a Swinburne University campus' prayer room on Islam's main day of worship after a clash over who should lead services.
Students at Melbourne's Swinburne University have been locked out of the Hawthorn campus prayer room s on the main day of worship in the Muslim faith.The university says the prayer room s in the Multi Faith Centre will stay closed on Fridays until members of the Swinburne Islamic Society meet with staff.
Occasionally, including on October 11, they pray outside the Multi Faith Centre if they are not allowed in. President of the Swinburne Islamic Society Tabish Rather said the chaplain's presence on October 11 was "unnecessary" and upset the students who wanted one of their own to lead the prayer. The alarms were disabled in February, two months after they were installed, after complaints from the Swinburne Islamic Society.
In an online poll, 201 members of the Swinburne Islamic Society voted unanimously to keep a student-run Friday prayer service rather than a chaplain-led service. However, for the past year updated guidelines for the use of the prayer room had caused issues for Muslim students like her. Adel Salman, president of the Islamic Council of Victoria, the peak body for Muslims in the state, said he supported the students' right to run their own Friday sermon.
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