My name is Ahmed Khan and I am the President of the SFU Muslim Students Association. We had 2 incidents occur at
June 3rd, 2019
On June 3, there was an individual (not a student) who entered into our prayer area at the SFU Surrey campus and he was caught defacating (urinating) in our prayer area. This was done intentionally. Afterwards, he was caught stating, “F*** all muslims”. Then he began to lay down and relax. One of our executives witnessed the act and ran to inform security about what had occurred. Security escorted the individual out of the prayer area and banned him from entering SFU Surrey.
The second incident took place on the same day at our Burnaby campus a couple hours after the first one. An individual came into our prayer area and opened up our storage closet and grabbed our donation box. They stole some money from there and threw the box on the floor and ran away. He was not caught and we have no description of his appearance. Luckily we had removed most of the money from the box so not much was stolen.
Both of these incidents have been reported to the RCMP and various media outlets such as Omni News, News1130 and RedFM have covered this story. SFU has responded well and have provided us a temporary new room until Fall. In Fall, they will be providing us a new permanent prayer room which will provide students with a sense of security and privacy while praying. Attached to this email is a picture of the cleaning workers cleaning up the mess. Please contact me if you have any further questions at 778-927-0082. I will be out of the country from Tuesday so please contact me before then.
