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London Metropolitan University to create alcohol free areas for Muslims | The London Metropolitan University's Vice-Chancellor is planning to have alcohol-free
areas for Muslims as it is considered evil and immoral. Prof Malcolm Gillies wants
ban the sale of alcohol in parts of the campus because for many Muslims, the drinking
culture among students marred rather than heightened their student experience.
About a fifth of students at the university come from Muslim families - many of
them young women from traditional homes, The Telegraph reports. 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. Anti-alcoholism campaigners and the Methodist Church
, which has a strong tradition of campaigning against excessive drinking, welcomed
his comments. Prof Gillies detailed his plans during a discussion on how to accommodate
minorities at a national conference for university officials earlier this month.
"It's a negative experience - in fact an immoral experience - for a high percentage
of our students," he said. |
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