Last spring, Luqman Peaks noticed some fellow Muslim students praying in the library on the downtown Detroit campus of Wayne County Community College District. They became friends, and they agreed with Peaks that it would be a great idea to start a Muslim student organization. Peaks submitted an application to start the group in May. At around the same time, he asked the district to provide a prayer room for religious students. Here's where the story gets weird. Administrators told Peaks he could not start a Muslim student organization because some students had already applied for and been given permission to start the group. He figured, great, my friends and I will join that group. Months went by. Eventually, Peaks got an invitation to a "meet and greet" for the group in July. He went. "And it was at that meeting where I noticed everybody there appeared to work for the school," he says. From what he could tell, no other Muslim student was at the meet and greet. In September, Peaks
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