Muslims Want Mosque in Football Stadium

Little Green Footballs ^ | Jan 19, 2007

[jdm]

Yet another demand from Muslims for special treatment—special treatment that would be denied to any other religious group: Seeking timeout for prayer. (Hat tip: Ethel.)

As the Ohio State Buckeyes pummeled the Northwestern Wildcats on Ryan Field last November, senior Amir Siddiqui and his friends slipped below the bleachers, removed their shoes and knelt on pieces of poster board to pray. As the sea of purple cheered and jeered above, Siddiqui tuned out the world around him to perform salaat, the Islamic ritual prayer that faithful Muslims recite five times daily. Siddiqui will do the same in Welsh-Ryan Arena next week when the Buckeyes basketball team goes up against the Wildcats. But rather than pray amid raucous crowds, some Muslim students are pressing Northwestern’s athletic department to set aside a secluded space for the ritual, or grant them permission to come and go from the arena before the buzzer. “If we attend the game in its entirety, we would miss one of our five daily prayers,” said Siddiqui, president of the Muslim cultural Student Association. “I can leave the game early, come later, or pray somewhere in the stadium on dirty floors with lots of noise and lots of people around, which isn’t a huge problem. But we’d love to have a small area.”

[theDentist]

Let's do it... and between prayers we can use it as an alternative to the men's room...

[Jeff Chandler]

No amount of prayer would have helped Ohio State against Florida.

[King Moonracer]

Are they praying for the "pigskin" perchance?

[AmericanMade1776]

I didn't know Mohammed approved of football.

[newconhere]

lol

[SpaceBar]

Their demands and antics will be their undoing. And when the dam breaks, oh boy.

[TruthConquers]

Wouldn't there be alcohol and pork in the stadium?

We have to stand up to this nonsense!

[Salvey]

Testing, poking, probing; looking for that weak spot and at the same time desensitizing us to their insane ways.

[Patrick1]

I speak for Ohio State, when I say..No.

[EagleUSA]

F--- these Islamic bastards. Send them back to the third world. This is America.

[RexBeach]

Oh yeah? Well, I want confessionals!

[Perdogg]

maybe osu should get a "touchdown mohammed".

[SmoothTalker]

Give it a hundred years and you'll see this in every bar, resturuant, and public gethering spot in the west.

[OCCASparky]

Can we make it out of pigskin?

[3AngelaD]

If they want a mosque, let then return to their ancestral hell hole countries and enjoy the mosques in the stadiums there. If you don't like the way we do things here, leave.

[Finalapproach29er]

This is insane.

[Patrick1]

They also want Ohio State to change their nickname from Buckeyes, to One-Eyed Mullahs.

[kendu]

why cant e just put a tv inot his local mosque?
They not allowed ?

[kromike]

Sure. I'll go along with that demand. In return, I want every bathroom stocked w/ Koran Toilet Paper, Koran Kondoms, and Mohammed Tampons.