Posted on 01/28/2007 1:38:10 AM PST by Dundee
A ROW has erupted over Muslim-only washrooms at La Trobe University that can be accessed only with a secret push-button code.
Muslim students have exclusive access to male and female washrooms on campus, sparking claims of bias and discrimination.
The university and Islamic leaders have defended the washrooms as vital to Muslim students' prayer rituals.
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Australian Family Council spokesman Bill Muehlenberg said concerns over the exclusive facilities were valid.
"Do we have a Christian washroom or an atheist washroom?" he said. "The whole thing is madness."
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"If Muslims are saying 'we are good Australians and want to integrate', why are they insisting on separate washrooms?" he said.
Victorian Muslim community leader Yasser Soliman said the washrooms were necessary.
He said the separate facilities were also due to concerns from non-Muslim students.
"Muslims need to wash their feet before prayer and in the past there have been complaints about them washing their feet in sinks, so this is a happy medium," he said.
Mr Soliman said most universities provided Muslim-only prayer and washrooms for students.
A La Trobe University spokesman said the washrooms were established with the advice of senior Muslim religious leaders.
He said the university also had a Christian chapel with a meeting room and four chaplains from major denominations had offices.
La Trobe University Christian Union vice-president Richard Thamm backed the washrooms.
"It's part of their religion, they need to wash in a special way before they pray," he said.
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Like...other muslims?
They need to wash their feet? Give them a bucket in the corner. Or let them dip their liddle toes in the toilet for all i cair.
Indeed, or they can use that pile of arse wipe they keep on their heads. :o)
Whew!
Jim Crow in a Habib.
Step by step they are pissing off the population who will sooner or later get sick of the dim politicos who are surrendering their countries to outsiders and throw them out and then get ones who will enforce a system that makes the muslims either assimilate or leave.
Ruling on using sea-shells to clean oneself after defecating
Question: Are sea-shells considered to be among the bones which we are not permitted to use to clean ourselves after defecating?
Answer: Praise be to Allaah.
We put this question to Shaykh Muhammad ibn Uthaymeen, who replied:
No, rather it is permissible to use them because of the hadeeth, For you is every bone over which the name of Allaah was pronounced [when the animal was slaughtered]. And these shells are not slaughtered, so they are not like animals which we are permitted to eat, over which the name of Allaah is pronounced at the time of slaughter, and the bones of which we are forbidden to use to clean ourselves after defecating, because they are the food of the Muslim jinn, as stated in the hadeeth quoted above.
And Allaah knows best.
Yeah, well, I need to drink Scotch before I pray
Actually, that fatwa makes a bit of scientific sense. In the unlikely event that I was ever intoxicated enough to attempt wiping my ass with a bone, a sea shell would certainly be preferrably to some bacteria laden thing from the skeleton of a slaughtered animal. Hypothetically speaking, of course. :)
This sums up this entire recent Muslem Drive.
Leroy! What the hell you think you're doing? You're not going to use that bone are you?
Just goes to prove that old saying about a blind squirrel and an acorn. :)
Oh...and if people haven't taken the time to read your profile page, they should...there's some good stuff in there.
Is there a good web site for these more amusing fatwa's?
Thanks, I appreciate the appreciation. The story behind the New Deal is a long slog to read, but it is critical that the story be preserved.
Super glue the keypad
Bacon grease is better.
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