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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Just trying to save money on toilet paper.
Do I like it - not much but they also have seperate Women's rooms, rooms for other Overseas Students, Aboriginal Students basically if you are a minority you could probably apply for a room and get it.
I would get really steamed if I saw a "blacks only" restroom anywhere!
No wonder the damned Muslim restrooms keep getting clogged up. It's so annoying to clean out the trap and find a bunch of stinkin' chicken bones.
I saw that and laughed out loud, good one.
"When the mussies take a dump,they don't use paper(that's not halal!)They wash their bums with water instead.
(That's the damn truth!)"
Sicko bastards!
Nothing wrong with the keypad that a good hammer couldn't fix.
where water is not available, sand is a suitable substitute for the cleansing; Ergo . . .
Too bad there isn't someplace they can wash away their filthy thoughts.
hahahaha
Happy medium, son instead of putting in a foot sink, they give them an exclusive restroom?/???? Yea, that's a happy medium... hahah
idiotic
hahahaha
Happy medium, son instead of putting in a foot sink, they give them an exclusive restroom?/???? Yea, that's a happy medium... hahah
idiotic
If they want to wash their feet, they are free to move back to the third-world cesspools from which they came.
You mean they know how to use the three shells?
Yep, but they need a reason to scream “discrimination” and advance the cause of the Islamification of America.
push -- push -- push -- a little here -- a little there -- push -- push --
As a piont of fact, the Queeran specifies that one wipe ones anus with three, five or seven smooth stones. It is, after all, a desert religion and smooth rocks were available rather more than water.
Islam seems to have a tad of numerology in it, along with many other delusional thought modes. Or, perhaps Big Mo (a pox be upon him), liked odd numbers as much as he liked other odd things - like sex with nine year olds, raping the daughters of men whose heads he ordered cut off in front of the daughters immediately prior to the rapes, ad nauseam.
I think Muslim only washrooms are actually good.
Two years ago we had an Afghan imigrant working in our building. He would sit on the counter in the restroom and wash his feet in the sink. He would also hang his butt over the sink and wash it after doing his business. Nobody wanted to use the sink after he left. He's gone now, thankfully.
Where did you bury the body?
So they have to wash their feet 5 times a day? Bet they have all kinds of problems from fungus to cracked heels.
No wonder these people are so bad-tempered.
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