School's Response: Idea behind foot-washing facility is to promote safety

The Minneapolis Star Tribune (a.k.a. the Red Star) ^ | April 18, 2007 | Phillip L. Davis, President MCTC

[mikethevike]

The April 12 column by Katherine Kersten inaccurately characterized our plans to accommodate student foot-washing needs at Minneapolis Community and Technical College (MCTC). I am writing to set the record straight.

[mikethevike]

This guy must have been feeling the heat - let's keep up the pressure!

[mikethevike]

Article link:
http://www.startribune.com/562/story/1127197.html

[TommyDale]

Is there a fungus among us?

[llevrok]

will the fungicide in the wash water have any animal fats (cloven, perhaps?). I mean, we must be sanitary.

[martin_fierro]

"Giggety giggety!"

[shove_it]

Here’s a less costly suggestion - place signs in the rest rooms saying: “Do not wash feet in the sinks. Use the toilets instead.”

[paulcissa]

Anyone have the link to the original article? I’d like to read it.

[mikethevike]

Man, that was my sloppiest post ever - I realized it was login so, I posted the text.

It looks like some Minnesotans are complaining - got those taxis payin fines now too. (when they refuse to pick up infidel’s and their pets/beer/Easter ham)

[Adder]

Uh...Phill?

Why not ban foot washing at sinks. Then you don’t have the mess.

Lord knows you ban all sorts of other stuff....

[Joe 6-pack]

"Here’s a less costly suggestion - place signs in the rest rooms saying: “Do not wash feet in the sinks. Use the toilets instead.”

Then the homos would need somewhere else to go have sex.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

The Church of the Brethern, a Christian denomination, also participates in foot-washing among it’s members. This is not just a Muslim practice.

[I see my hands]

If they double as urinals then cool!

[RushCrush]

LOL!!!

[united1000]

Very Funny..........

[geopyg]

I was thinking they could just use those short little drinking fountains in the ladies bathroom.

[kittymyrib]

“The Church of the Brethern, a Christian denomination, also participates in foot-washing among it’s members. This is not just a Muslim practice.”

Before class? No, it’s just the muzzies who have to be cleansed from possibly having touched us infidels, who have paid for those university facilities with our taxes through the decades before they showed up.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

When you do that wudu that you do so well!
5 times a day!
“
If any of the following happen, you must perform wudu again before doing salah. It is recommended (but not mandatory) to always be in a state of wudu, so it is not necessary to wait until hearing the adhan (call to Salah) before performing wudu.

Relieving oneself from the call of nature

O you who believe! When you intend to offer As-Salât (the prayer), wash your faces and your hands (forearms) up to the elbows, rub (by passing wet hands over) your heads, and (wash) your feet up to ankles. If you are in a state of Janâba (i.e. had a sexual discharge), purify yourself (bathe your whole body). But if you are ill or on a journey or any of you comes from answering the call of nature, or you have been in contact with women (i.e. sexual intercourse) and you find no water, then perform Tayammum with clean earth and rub therewith your faces and hands. Allâh does not want to place you in difficulty, but He wants to purify you, and to complete His Favour on you that you may be thankful. [The Noble Qur’an 5:6]
Passing gas, i.e. breaking wind

Abu Hurairah reported that the Messenger of Allah said, “Allah does not accept the prayer of a person who has released gas until he makes a new ablution.” A person from Hadhramaut asked Abu Hurairah, “What does releasing gas mean?” He answered, “Wind with or without sound.” [Related by al-Bukhari and Muslim.]

Abu Hurairah also narrated that the Prophet said, “If one of you finds a disturbance in his abdomen and is not certain if he has released any gas or not, he should not leave the mosque unless he hears its sound or smells its scent.” [Related by Muslim.]
‘Abbad ibn Tameem related that his uncle queried the Prophet about a person who feels something in his abdomen while praying. Said the Prophet , “He should not leave (the prayer) until he hears it or smells it.” [Related by Muslim, Abu Dawud and at-Tirmidhi.]
Sexual Relations
One must perform ghusl after sexual relations, i.e. when the male private part enters the female private part.”
He who smelt it, delt it!

[hsalaw]

Here’s a less costly suggestion - place signs in the rest rooms saying: “Do not wash feet in the sinks. Use the toilets instead.”

I was so taken with your suggestion that I wrote to Davis, and offered it as a less costly and certainly less controversial solution. And it would definitely reduce injuries: as any drunken freshman knows, when you fall off a toilet, it's not that far to the ground.

[ChiefChris]

It’s simple, let your Guinea Pig bath in the foot baths.