Posted on 04/07/2026 8:01:39 AM PDT by simpson96
So-called ‘interfaith’ chapel at airports are essentially mini-mosques. There was not a single cross in two chapels I visited.
On Palm Sunday, I was traveling through Dallas-Fort Worth Airport (DFW) on my way home from CPAC 2026 and, having gone through security very early, I had a few hours to spare inside the terminal (thanks, Congress). So, I did what I usually do when I have extra time in airports — I looked for the chapel.
Airport chapels have long been a curiosity of mine, ever since I discovered they exist. I used to have terrible flying anxiety, and I found it comforting to stop in, pray, and look over the guest book to see what experience others have had in that space. It has always seemed a uniquely American privilege, a recognition of God’s sovereignty in the skies as well as on Earth. In recent years, I’ve noticed the chapels disappearing. Some major hubs have placed them outside the terminals, perhaps to accommodate the ever-growing number of Muslims staffing our airports.
I find it sad and frustrating, so I was pleasantly surprised to discover DFW had reinstalled their chapel since my last visit years ago. In fact, they had three (I have since learned there are two more outside the terminal). With hours left until my flight, I decided to visit them all — terminals B, D, and E.
What I found was the opposite of pleasant. They were essentially mini-mosques, labeled as “interfaith” chapels.
Chapel One The first “chapel” had a prayer bench, at least. But it also included a lot of Islamic imagery and two large cabinets jammed with Islamic prayer rugs.
No crosses. Not a single one.
That chapel was empty. I left without praying. I didn’t like it and I didn’t feel comfortable. I left a note in the guest book — “Not a single cross but a hundred prayer rugs.” I headed out to the next terminal.
That experience was even more disappointing. There was even less in that “chapel” to point to Christianity. There was a stained-glass window with vague imagery and some Bibles tucked on shelves. But prayer rugs were everywhere, including hanging on the racks on the wall. A sign encouraged the faithful to “look up” to find Mecca — a compass was painted on the ceiling.
When I arrived, there was one man already in the room. He had on an employee uniform and was a luggage handler or something similar. He had his shoes off, as if he’d just finished praying, and he was chilling out on the chairs watching a video on his phone. I was surprised to see him and surprised to hear his phone playing in a sacred space.
“Oh, hello!” I greeted him, startled. He looked surprised but said nothing. I sat down and took out my Bible and began to read silently, stopping once in a while to pray the Lord’s Prayer.
He turned up his phone. After a few minutes, he sighed loudly, muttered something under his breath, and took out a prayer rug, laying it out in the middle of the room. He began his prayers and chanting and bowing, and having seen these rituals before, I reasoned he would be finished in about five minutes or so. He was not.
The room featured some stained glass. Kind of a cross? If you squint and pretend and think hard about crosses?
Waiting out Various Visitors At this time of day, several men were praying, facing their rugs to that far right corner. Naturally I did not photograph or video anyone who entered the chapel.
At each pass of the ritual, he was louder and louder. I began to read the Word out loud too. And when he got louder, so did I. We were speaking in normal inside voices, but we were definitely competing.
By minute 10, I realized he wasn’t going to finish and leave. He was determined to stay … and so was I.
After another 10 minutes or so, another gentleman entered the room. He too seemed surprised to see me and he immediately said something to Phone Guy in Arabic, who had since risen from the prayer rug to greet the new man. They pointed to me and spoke aggressively. I only recognized a few words — Islam, woman, Palm Sunday … perhaps they were trying to work out why I would be in there during their prayer time and understood a bit about the Christian calendar.
They returned to the rugs together and spent another 10 minutes praying. The friend then left, but Phone Guy sat back down and turned his phone back on.
I kept praying. I was suddenly aware of how isolated the “chapel” was, and how frosty it felt in there. I felt as though the man was squatting there until I left. But I knew I had five hours on my side, and he had work.
I kept praying.
Eventually another man came in, shoes off — he was ready to pray. Phone Guy finally stood up and said something to the man and then left. That man prayed, longer than normal, and did not leave until two more men came to pray. One man, who was clearly traveling through, stopped in to pray, but he moved through his rituals quickly, quietly, and politely. He didn’t seem at all bothered by my presence.
By that time I’d determined not to leave until the last Muslim had cleared out. I was not going to be run off from a space that is supposed to be a House of God.
Disrespectful to Every Faith
And about that … some people have criticized me for sharing this story, saying I was the one who violated the concept of an “interfaith chapel.” But I contend that an “interfaith chapel” is an abomination and a disrespect to every faith. Islam and Christianity are not allies. We have no business worshipping in the same space, and in fact, cannot. The Muslims there knew it. I knew it. Airport planners don’t care or perhaps they know it too.
I lasted an hour. I didn’t leave until it was clear no one else was coming. I know it was only symbolic. Obviously, people come in and out all day. But I just had to stay. I couldn’t make myself leave.
I did not feel like going to the third chapel.
What is happening is wrong. We cannot co-exist peacefully with Islam, and Muslims know it. They are spreading out, and we are smiling and opening our faith spaces to them while they do it.
An airport chapel should be for Christians. If other faiths need a space, they should request their own. America is not an Islamic nation, nor do we recognize Islam as a cultural touchstone.
Jews don’t bother with this stuff at all. I’ve never encountered a Jewish person in a chapel, and if I did, I don’t suspect he or she would be surprised or offended to see me there … in a chapel.
I know what I saw and what I felt.
Go find your airport chapel and claim it. Pray there. Leave a cross and a Bible and a note. Do not cede this ground. Do not cede any ground.
The enemies are at the gate… B25.
WTF? Steers and queers and now Muzzies? You gotta be kidding me. Come on Texas. You’re embarrassing me.
It IS embarrassing.
My fellow Texans best wake up, and, fast.
🙏🏻 ✝️
It will be before long, the way things are going.
Who uses an airport chapel? Other than a quick prayer that the flight crew is sober, but not so holy as to risk being raptured in flight, why would I need a special room to pray there?
Texas politicians regardless of political affiliation, the motto is:Money talks, culture walks. Been to Frisco lately?
You did your part to remind these newcomers that this is still a majority Christian Nation, and we still deserve both acknowledgement and respect. I can easily imagine one of the less civil Muslims daring to walk up to you and order you to leave. That would be the next logical step in what they view as a takeover.
I hope a lot of local people complain and do so online in order to spread the news, get a widespread reaction.
Name who is making these decisions. This change is not something that happens all by itself. An agenda is being pushed or perhaps shoved into out view.
It’s all about the all mighty dollar, next are foot washers.
After 9/11 this started and airports started calling in plumbing contractors to install footbaths for the taxi drivers and other Muslims.
9/11 resulted in almost an instant transformation in America towards Islam in government, in elected leaders, in government agencies like the FBI, in remodeling of public buildings, in teaching Islam and its history in public schools, in lowering the Christian profile of holidays, in writing and casting in Hollywood and TV, and the list goes on.
Last time I was at DFW, I saw some airport employees duck into an alcove get on their knees and hold their hands out in some prayer posture of Islam. They were not in anyone’s way and anyone could have stepped in there to the side of them to pray however they wanted.
It does happen at DFW. The people I saw had on some sort of employee badge.
Do all airports have a chapel?
> 9/11 resulted in almost an instant transformation in America towards Islam in government <
You’re right. This thing seemed to really take off after 9/11. And nothing could be more irrational. On 9/11 we were attacked by Muslims. And now we go out of our way to accommodate them.
It really is sad and puzzling. Perhaps at least part of it can be explained by Bush II’s idiotic comment right after 9/11: “Islam is peace.”
Say what you want about FDR. But right after Pearl Harbor, he correctly identified the enemy. The he crushed them. We needed another FDR right after 9/11.
We sure didn’t get one.
I think so.
The IRGC and the remainder of the theocracy in Iran has to be dismantled.
Such a move by President Trump would force the cancellation of all international flights into what would now be referred to as "Dallas/Fort Worth National Airport".
The financial impact of such a cancellation would no doubt make even the threat of such action bring a near-instant change to the airport chapels in Dallas (or other leftist-run cities).
Does anyone recall the 5th grade boy in Garland Texas who told his teacher on Sept 10th that WW3 would start the next day, and America would lose?
When 9/11 happened I thought it would be a breakthrough and that finally America would start learning about the threat of Islam and that we would harden up, learn more about the evil of its teachings and what it meant for the West, that we would discuss the horrors of their Koran, and their murderous history, etc.
Man was I wrong, instead we absorbed their message and started indoctrinating our population and young, and putting them into congress and the presidency.
The downside was a very lengthy layover (4 hours +) in DTW. I discovered their 'Interfaith Chapel'. It was a nice quiet place with comfortable chairs and minimal people. Good for even collecting a few winks because it was so quiet. I talk to God in my sleep.
But, seriously, most of the people I saw using it were Muslims in TSA uniforms. Isn't that scary?
See my post #18.
We had a globalist derp state weasel for a president at the time.
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