The Sun jumped on the bandwagon today with a piece on Sunni-Shia relations on campus. It's actually pretty useful, and answers a key question I asked in my post on the subject: Why is Cornell, of all places, such an "oasis" of tolerance? I posited a number of theories, including Cornell's relative distance from major Muslim communities and its isolation, but the article confirms the one I guessed but couldn't prove: the small number of Muslims at Cornell. The article states:Many Muslim students at Cornell attribute their community’s cohesiveness to its small size. Though no precise statistics on student religious denominations are recorded, the on-campus Muslim community is estimated to be between 300 and 500 students, with approximately 150 students participating in weekly Friday prayer services.
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