<p>As a Muslim student, I was wondering how open Vanderbilt is religiously. </p>
<p>Has anyone had any experience being a muslim student at Vanderbilt knowing anyone who is? Do you / they get bullied? Is it a welcoming / accepting environment?</p>
<p>Good question, I would like to know this too.</p>
<p>Maybe it's similar to gay acceptance... which apparently isn't that good (though they're working on it).</p>
<p>Hey I'm a Muslim highschool student but i'll be at Vandy next year, accepted ED 1. But I also have 2 older brothers that just graduated from vandy last May and my sister is a junior up there now. They were the MSA President and Vice President. They said that everything is good up there, in terms of religious acceptance. On friday, all the students and faculty that cannot go to the city mosque has a room in which they can pray.<br>
So don't worry about it at all, and InshAllah i'll see you up there.</p>
<p>Wow - it's nice to see this forum work exactly the way it was intended to!</p>
<p>I'll be honest, I am friends with several Muslim students at Vanderbilt, but it would be a stretch to call them observant - none are halal, most drink and behave exactly the way I do. Vanderbilt is accepting and tolerant, but you will have to make an effort to get to know non-muslim students, don't expect much reciprocation. If you are especially religious, or at least conspicuous you will probably attract stares. Bear in mind that the most conspicuously Muslim students at Vanderbilt are the Malaysian transfer students, who tend to stick together anyways and not mix with the general student population. </p>
<p>To conclude, yes you will be accepted, just don't feel bummed if the SAE and KA guys don't go out of their way to befriend you.</p>
<p>How does it feel to be ignorant and hypocritical? Probably pretty good I bet. That's the devil in yah. Maybe you should think about how absolutely ridiculous that comment is, first it shows you're a regionist (just like racism, oh know, it can't be!) but also a fan of stereotypes. Lop onto that the fact that those are some pretty poor critical thinking skills. It doesn't take all that much logic to realize that all of the Southern fraternities here have at least a few Texas oil family sons in them and they get along great with Islamic people.</p>
<p>Yeah, those poor frat daddies - always getting the short end of the stick in life...</p>
<p>As you might see in my post, I didn't whine about being treated unfairly or any of that PC crap, because it's the job of someone who thinks they haven't been GIVEN the same opportunities as other people by society to work hard enough to earn them. Nevertheless, any real liberal instead of someone just following the crowd would realize that stereotyping guys in a couple of the southern fraternities here is the same as stereotyping black dudes.</p>
<p>Also, this is a solid article:</p>
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As a Muslim student, I was wondering how open Vanderbilt is religiously.</p>
<p>Has anyone had any experience being a muslim student at Vanderbilt knowing anyone who is? Do you / they get bullied? Is it a welcoming / accepting environment?
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<p>Vanderbilt is very welcoming to Muslims, from my experiences. Have you checked out Vanderbilt's MSA site? </p>
<p>I would say that there is a definite "tolerance" of Muslim students on campus. It is common for many of the Malaysian transfer students to stick together, however I don't think that is due to the non international population, but rather a general comfort with people who speak their native language or share similar cultural values. I know many Muslim students who keep halal and are quite religious. </p>
<p>I would say there is no significant reason to worry about any prejudice at Vanderbilt due to religion.</p>
<p>Hahaha that is such a load of bull VandySAE and you know it, I would pay to have front row seats to watch a Malaysian try to enter a KA or SAE party. The proverbial "oil-money" at Vanderbilt is thoroughly non-existent at this point in time, SAE and KA have been populated with enough Northern boarding school kids to completely eliminate that stereotype.</p>