HOMESTAY for Arab / Muslim University Student

Hi,
I have a Homestay available for an Arab / Muslim University student for a period of approximately 5 months. Mon - Friday = Breakfast and cooked evening meal included and weekends = Breakfast, Afternoon and Evening meals included.

We are a married couple and have no children - and have let to University students before on a Homestay basis - through the University Manchester Language Centre - References from previous tenants can be made available.

You may contact me on 07989-321-8-21 ( or from overseas 0044-7989-321-8-21) - or watts app.

With warm Regards

Mr Wasim Haque

PS The house is in Manchester - close to bus stops to Oxford Road and Piccadilly

It's not racist and neither am I.
The Equality Act applies to employment - not tenancies. Grow up!!
I will not be making any more such replies to any other comments such as yours on this platform to any one else.

My advert States clearly who I want to allow inside my house as a tenant.

If you have nothing constructive to say - stay quiet. Stop judging others when you don't even know them!

Discrimination on grounds of race is always illegal. However, expressing a preference for a tenant of a particular religious belief may not be where facilties are shared with the host family. Presumably Homestay has something in their paperwork about hosts complying with the laws of the country they reside in, although it's not immediately apparent on their website.

It's not racist and neither am I.
The Equality Act applies to employment - not tenancies. Grow up!!
I will not be making any more such replies to any other comments such as yours on this platform to any one else.

My advert States clearly who I want to allow inside my house as a tenant.

If you have nothing constructive to say - stay quiet. Stop judging others when you don't even know them!

Not taking sides, but maybe what the OP meant was that there's a spare room that would be most suitable for a student who, as per their religion, would prefer to live somewhere with presumably no alcohol, non-haram food or, for veiled ladies, men (besides OP) present, and where they could speak Arabic rather than English, which may not be their mothertongue? In the same way that a kashrut-observing Jewish couple may have a spare room for a kashrut-observing Jewish student wanting accommodation with a kitchen with two of each feature to separate diary from meat, which they most likely wouldn't find otherwise? Just an assumption, in which case OP made the mistake of not distinguishing "most suitable for," from "only for." Racism comes into play if, as you say, he does mean "only for," but even then I'm torn - I may be biased but most other people can find accommodation literally anywhere else, why not cordon this one off for people requiring something more specific?

Hm. I don't know. I could be wrong (I sound sarcastic, but I honestly don't mean to be). Anyway, best wishes to people on both sides of the argument! Hehe.

I see what you're saying, though the way to word such an advert (so as to stay within the law) would be to say that the landlord is an orthodox Jew, and that any prospective tenant would be expected to obey by all kosher dietary laws while inside the house.

Such an advert does not exclude non-Jews, but there are probably limited numbers of such people who are willing to give up their ham and cheese toasties for the sake of a tenancy.

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Hi,
I have a Homestay available for an Arab / Muslim University student for a period of approximately 5 months. Mon - Friday = Breakfast and cooked evening meal included and weekends = Breakfast, Afternoon and Evening meals included.

We are a married couple and have no children - and have let to University students before on a Homestay basis - through the University Manchester Language Centre - References from previous tenants can be made available.

You may contact me on 07989-321-8-21 ( or from overseas 0044-7989-321-8-21) - or watts app.

With warm Regards

Mr Wasim Haque

PS The house is in Manchester - close to bus stops to Oxford Road and Piccadilly

Salam Mr Wasim Haque, I am Nurul, a muslim student from Singapore. I would like to enquire if your homestay have any available room for the whole month of July next year. If there is available room, can I know how much is the charges? Thanks for your attention and hope to see your reply soon.

Leaving aside the first point, wouldn't that depend on how tolerant both parties were? Which one would you suppose to be the less tolerant of the other's way of life?