Muslim Student wants out of class due to Presence of Females

I'm with the prof on this.



Preventing discrimination trumps religious freedom.

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Enough is enough. It’s all well and good to be a welcoming, multicultural society that bends over backwards to respect everyone’s faith and belief. But there are certain inalienable, bedrock truths that go along with living here that cannot and should not be bent to “accommodate” different value systems. Gender equality is one of them. And so it’s shocking that a secular, publicly funded school of higher learning such as York University would insist that a professor agree to a male student’s request to opt out of a group project because he doesn’t want to interact with his female classmates due to religious reasons. To his credit, sociology professor J. Paul Grayson has defied the decision by dean Martin Singer, and with the backing of his department, told the student he must participate with women in his focus group assignment

http://www.torontosun.com/2014/01/09...ale-classmates

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