La Libre revealed on Monday evening, via a text by secular activist Nadia Geerts, that clandestine prayers were being organised in the middle of the Free University of Brussels. Jean-Philippe Schreiber, advisor to the rector on institutional policy, reacted on Tuesday morning, acknowledging that “students gather to pray in an illegal way. Since this summer, the phenomenon has intensified”.
La Libre has managed to obtain hidden camera videos showing one of these gatherings.
The University in Brussels (ULB) admits: “Students gather to pray in an illegal way. Since this summer, the phenomenon has increased”.
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Are there officially established prayer rooms at the ULB? “No”, replies Mr Schreiber. Certainly, we know that students regularly get together to pray here and there in an illegal way. In recent years, we have been of the opinion that this is an insignificant and marginal phenomenon, and had no intention of conducting the police on attitudes in our ranks. For some time, especially since this summer, the phenomenon has increased and is hindering the conduct of our educational activities, so at the beginning of this academic year we will remind our students that we do not authorise the establishment of places of prayer. La Libre