The Justice

Awful.

This is terrible and I'm especially upset that something like this would happen at the school where I spent 4 years. Hopefully the community will come together to say how unacceptable this is.

I cant believe they vandalized this place. I used to come here all the time and now we have to get someone to fix the place up.

Absolutely pathetic!

Who paid for the rennovation?? If muslims did and are paying rent they have a right to be upset. If the school did TOUGH

Islam and Muslims
?Islam? is an Arabic word which means ?submission to the will of God?. This word comes from the same root as the Arabic word ?salam?, which means ?peace?. As such, the religion of Islam teaches that in order to achieve true peace of mind and surety of heart, one must submit to God and live according to His Divinely revealed Law. The most important truth that God revealed to mankind is that there is nothing divine or worthy of being worshipped except for Almighty God, thus all human beings should submit to Him.

Who is Muslim
The word ?Muslim? means one who submits to the will of God, regardless of their race, nationality or ethnic background. Being a Muslim entails wilful submission and active obedience to God, and living in accordance with His message. Some people mistakenly believe that Islam is just a religion for Arabs, but nothing could be further from the truth. Not only are there converts to Islam in every corner of the world, especially in England and America, but by taking a look at the Muslim World from Bosnia to Nigeria, and from Indonesia to Morocco, one can clearly see that Muslims come from many various races, ethnic groups and nationalities. It is also interesting to note that in actuality, more than 80% of all Muslims are not Arabs ? there are more Muslims in Indonesia than in the whole Arab World! So, though even though it is true that most Arabs are Muslims, the large majority of Muslims are not Arabs. However, anyone who submits completely to God and worships Him alone is a Muslim.

Continuity of the Message of All The Prophets of God Almighty
Islam is not a new religion because ?submission to the will of God?, i.e. Islam, has always been the only acceptable religion in the sight of God. For this reason, Islam is the true ?natural religion?, and it is the same eternal message revealed through the ages to all of God?s prophets and messengers. Muslims believe that all of God?s prophets, which include Abraham, Noah, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad, brought the same message of Pure Monotheism. For this reason, the Prophet Muhammad was not the founder of a new religion, as many people mistakenly think, but he was the final Prophet of Islam. By revealing His final message to Muhammad, which is an eternal and universal message for all of mankind, God finally fulfilled the covenant that He made with Abraham, who was one of the earliest and greatest prophets.

Sufficient is it to say that the way of Islam is the same as the way of the prophet Abraham, because both the Bible and the Quran portray Abraham as a towering example of someone who submitted himself completely to God and worshipped Him without intermediaries. Once this is realized, it should be clear that Islam has the most continuous and universal message of any religion, because all prophets and messengers were ?Muslims?, i.e. those who submitted to God?s will, and they preached ?Islam?, i.e. submission to the will of Almighty God.

The Oneness of God
The foundation of the Islamic faith is belief in the Oneness of Almighty God ? the God of Abraham, Noah, Moses and Jesus. Islam teaches that a pure belief in One God is intuitive in human beings and thus fulfils the natural inclination of the soul. As such, Islam?s concept of God is straightforward, unambiguous and easy to understand. Islam teaches that the hearts, minds and souls of human beings are fitting receptacles for clear divine revelation, and that God?s revelations to man are not clouded by self-contradictory mysteries or irrational ideas. As such, Islam teaches that even though God cannot be fully comprehended and grasped by our finite human minds, He also does not expect us to accept absurd or demonstrably false beliefs about Him.

Brandeis University came into being in the post-World War II years as a reaction to religious and ethnic persecution. And, for years, we prided ourselves upon one fact of campus architecture, that the chapels are designed so that one does not overshadow the other. I think it would be appropriate for the Brandeis community to react to this dastardly attack on its Muslim members by having a convocation to reaffirm its social justice values. Freedom of religion, a part of the U.S. Constitution, should be upheld as a particularly precious right at Brandeis.

Thats horrible :-(