Teaching Openness in a Muslim only College

            Anna Challet from KQED wrote about a Muslim only college in Berkley teaching an open mindedness towards other cultures and religions.  Zaytuna College is the only Muslim institution that is an accredited in the United States school system. It is a small school that has only Muslim students, they also course offers both Muslim and non-Muslim teachings. In this article Challet speaks about the professors in the college teaching more openness to different ideas and religions. They also offer extracurricular activities with other religions, such as working alongside with Christians for Habitat for Humanity some of the people she interviewed were not Muslim before and one was converted during a time where he was not “rock-bottom”. I found that to be interesting because when people convert religions, it is usually when they are at a low point of their life.

            I believe that this is a great thing for this Muslim only college to be open to investing their time in leering openness. I hope more religions and cultures take a note from Zaytuna College to learn to appreciate other religions and cultures. In this current time there are a lot of Islamophobia in the United States; many right-wingers even to want ban Muslims from immigrating to America.  Ideas like that are dangerous to the growth in America, but if history tells, there’s always a race or religion people will blame for their problems.

http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/12/24/berkeleys-zaytuna-college-asks-muslims-to-think-outside-the-mosque