Flint, Mich. ? A room for peaceful reflection and prayer at the University of Michigan-Flint has become a source of interfaith tension.

Room 386 at the University Center, also called the Meditation Room, is at the center of a religious dispute between Muslim and non-Muslim students.

Complaints started in November that some Muslim students were monopolizing the space, which is about the size of a storage room, and filling it with religious paraphernalia and anti-Israel literature. Muslim students responded that they were being unfairly targeted.

“I do think that the current political climate does contribute to Islamophobia,” said Bishr Aldabagh, a former Student Government Council president.