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Royal Holloway ISOC

bedrazor666

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Anyone here part of the ISOC(Islamic Society) at Royal Holloway??

Reply 1

birdsonghero

my friend is and he says its quite good...but then again he would say that.

i'm thinknig of joining it purely for ramadhan...but then again ive heard some isocs brainwash the members....

Reply 2

bedrazor666

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I got in for Economics so i'll see you there inshaAllah...btw, you staying at uni or you travelling?

Reply 3

birdsonghero

sounds hard. oh im gonig to do french and histroy!
staying at uni! you?
but tbh im not really sure whether to join the isoc.....im not that religious, and from what ive heard alll the women wear scarves.....

Reply 4

bedrazor666

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French and history..wow! Bonjour:P:P Thats about all i know! Nah i ain't staying at uni, going to be pretty hard to travel but i don't mind. Will be a 1 hr 30 minz journey from my yard to uni, but its worth it. But anyways, i'll see you there inshaAllah.

Reply 5

itzme

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salam both of you!!!!!!
so rhul has an ISOC? does that mean there are many muslims? any arabs ?????
i really want to join, but is that done during fresher's week? i had an ISOC in my college and they are really helpful (well for me at least)!!!!!1

Reply 6

blacklashes

bedrazor666

I got in for Economics so i'll see you there inshaAllah...btw, you staying at uni or you travelling?

aoa, im doing economics as well inshallah. if this ISOC is good, i might join. provided they dont have any right or left wing views abot things if u no what i mean.

im commuting as well and it takes me about 1 and a half hours. btw where are u commuting from?

see u in september inshallah. looking forward to meeting u

Reply 7

itzme

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i am commuting as well from south west londo like brixto, streatham area

Reply 8

bedrazor666

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Well i live in East London, namely Gants Hill. So i'll have to take the tube to Waterloo and then get the train from there. I ain't joining the ISOC as well if they have views contradicting the mainstream islam; this is a big problem with many unis now!

Looking forward in meeting all of you there Insha'Allah. If anyone is going to the freshers' week, lets all go together and represent the TSR society!!!

To itzme- I don't personally know too much about the ISOC at RHUL, but inshaAllah we'll have a first hand idea when we go there inshaAllah.

Salaam 'Alaikum everyone!

Reply 9

birdsonghero

yeah the whole thing about whether the isoc has certain views is whats making me uncertain about joining.

i hope they are going to do something during freshers! itl be my first week fasting without my fam!!!!!
to itzme: ive heard the uni is quite mixed and so theres quite a few mount of muslims.

anyone here, staying at halls?
hey up bedrazor666, i live near by gants hill!

Reply 10

bedrazor666

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birdsonghero

yeah the whole thing about whether the isoc has certain views is whats making me uncertain about joining.

i hope they are going to do something during freshers! itl be my first week fasting without my fam!!!!!
to itzme: ive heard the uni is quite mixed and so theres quite a few mount of muslims.

anyone here, staying at halls?
hey up bedrazor666, i live near by gants hill!

We'll see inshaAllah how it goes init, but i'll end up joining the ISOC one way or the other cause i won't be able to live without the muslim community! LOL! Hopefully there should be a lot of muslims as to what i heard...

So whereabouts u from; near gants hill as in-ilford, romford, hainult, wanstead, leytonstone...??

One more thing, are you guys going to take a day off on 'eid day? I'm not sure if RHUL gives a day off to muslims like many unis do.

Reply 11

birdsonghero

yeah near gants hill.

they must let us take eid off....its like saying to all christians, go to your lectures and seminars on chrsitmas day.....
and plus it was cause riots if they said no to us!

and yeah there are a lot of muslims at RH

Reply 12

bedrazor666

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One more question, this is mainly to all those who are already students there...is there halaal food available at the cafeteria???

Reply 13

birdsonghero

im not a student there yet but i called the accomodation services recently regarding halaal food and they said they had 2 halaal options and 1 veggie option.

Reply 14

birdsonghero

oh and a question which is slightly off topic: in terms of praying salaat, are you guys going to follow the times that your normally follow?

for those who are at halls: in terms of breaking and opening the fasts, are yuo going to follow egham's times (if there's a mosque nearby) or the times of the mosque near to where you live with your family atm????(make sense..?)

Reply 15

bedrazor666

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You have to follow the local timings, there is a prayer room in the campus so i'll do my salaahs according to that time and regarding the breaking and opening of fasts, i ain't living there so most likely i won't have to deal with any one of these 2 BUT if i have to, i'll follow the timetable there.