(Brussels Times) Improvised prayer rooms in universities have become the subject of discussion after an opinion piece by Nadia Geerts of the Francophone liberal MR party denounced the existence of these so-called “clandestine” areas at ULB University.
For several years, a place where some Muslim students on the ULB campus in Brussels gather to pray every day has existed. While this is a “clandestine” place, it is clearly tolerated, said Geerts in an opinion piece accompanied by a video of praying students published by La Libre last Monday.
In response, ULB acknowledged the existence of the clandestine prayer room in a written reaction to 7sur7, saying that “the phenomenon has increased significantly since the summer” and that some members of its university community were “concerned.”
