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Posted on 12/01/2006 4:56:33 PM PST by ritewingwarrior
Airport officials said Friday they will consider setting aside a private area for prayer and meditation at the request of imams concerned about the removal of six Muslim clerics from a US Airways flight last week.
Steve Wareham, director of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, said other airports have "meditation rooms" used for prayers or by passengers who simply need quiet time.
A group of Somali clerics met with airport officials Friday and said they would attract less attention if they had a private area for prayer. Devout Muslims pray five times daily, facing the holy city of Mecca.
"When we pray, we don't want a problem. We don't want what happened last week," said Abdulrehman Hersi, an imam at Darul-Quba mosque in Minneapolis, referring to six clerics who were barred from a US Airways flight in Minneapolis after drawing the concern of some passengers.
Airports in Nashville, Tenn.; Columbus, Ohio; and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., all advertise meditation rooms. Fort Lauderdale's is billed as "For travelers seeking a quiet time." All note they are nonsectarian.
The imams at the airport Friday drew a few stares as they laid down their prayer rugs and knelt on the hard rubber floor at the airport.
The clerics requested a meeting after both the US Airways incident and a recent flap over Muslim cabdrivers who didn't want to pick up passengers carrying alcohol.
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No.
Why don't the stupid airport just build a mosque?
Good. Then I can say a rosary or four in the same room at the same time.
Bugs and claymores?
ML/NJ
This would be a violation of the constitution.
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Ok. I want my own Baptist room though. It's against my belief to share praying places.
"I'll be the one with the sacramental pork rinds."
I carry them in my purse.
"How 'bout if they go outside, like smokers?"
Tee hee
Just wait, I'm sure it's coming.
Will they allow a Christian Chapel at the airport also ??
If not this would be a case for discrimination
Let's just build it and then announce it's open. I wonder how they react to that? (No, I don't, really).
...what happened to "separation of church and state"?
While your comment could be a wee bit paranoid (the airport could still put security cameras in the room, after all), it could happen. Muslims should worship in the existing meditation rooms, and if others object to their using such rooms, then those objectors will just have to put up with it.
We'll it's only fair, since Irish-Catholics already have the lounge.
Put it right under the urinals.
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You're big on keeping how you make that box a secret, aren't you?
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