Posted on 04/29/2007 4:17:20 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
The Kansas City International Airport has added several foot-washing basins in restrooms to accommodate a growing number of Muslim taxicab drivers who requested the facilities to prepare for daily Islamic prayer, WND has learned.
The move concerns airport police who worry about Middle Eastern men loitering inside the building. After 9/11, the airport beefed up its police force to help prevent terrorist attacks.
"Why are we constructing places of worship for them inside our airports?" said an airport official who requested anonymity. "Why are we catering to their rituals? We don't do it for any other religion."
Other major airports also are dealing with increased demands from Muslim cabdrivers.
For instance, cabbies at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport recently caused a stir when they refused to carry passengers possessing alcoholic beverages or accompanied by seeing-eye dogs. Alcohol is forbidden in Islam, and dogs are considered unclean.
There are approximately 250 taxicab drivers operating at KCI Airport in Missouri, one of the largest airports in the U.S., linking some 10 million passengers between mid-America and other U.S. cities. Approximately 70 percent of the drivers are of Middle Eastern heritage and practice the Islamic faith, sources say.
KCI Airport Police are responsible for the cab drivers, including the holding areas of the building. The KCI Aviation Department, which oversees the police, recently expanded the taxicab facility restroom area to include the construction of four individual foot-washing benches.
The cost of the project is not immediately known. A spokeswoman for the engineering department said she could not break out the figures.
KCI Airport Police Capt. Jim Harmon declined comment, explaining, "This is a touchy subject."
He referred questions to the KCI Aviation Department.
In a cleansing ritual known as ablution, Muslims are required to wash their feet before praying to Allah five times a day. They often complain that public restroom sinks do not accommodate their needs. Floor-level basins make it easier for them to perform their foot-washing ritual.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations has pressed government agencies and businesses to install the foot basins in restrooms.
The controversial Muslim lobby group advises employers to allow Muslim workers time to perform both the washing ritual and prayer, which "is usually about 15 minutes," according to a pamphlet CAIR publishes called, "An Employer's Guide to Islamic Religious Practices."
The Islamic purification ritual, known in Arabic as "wudu," involves a 10-step process, which includes:
1. Praising Allah while washing both hands up to the wrist three times, making sure that the water reaches between fingers and under rings.
2. Rinsing out the mouth thoroughly three times, using the right hand (the one not used for cleaning private parts) to bring the water to the mouth.
3. Snorting water into the nostrils from the right hand, three times, to cleanse them of demons that Muslims believe reside there, clearing the passages of any mucous using the left hand.
4. Washing off the tip of the nose with the left hand.
5. Washing the entire face three times from right ear to left ear.
6. Continuing to wash from forehead to throat.
7. Washing the right arm and then the left arm, three times, from the wrist up to the elbow, removing watches.
8. Moving wetted palms over the head from the top of the forehead to the back of the head.
9. Passing the wetted tips of the fingers into the grooves and holes of both ears, and also passing the wetted thumbs behind the ears and ear lobes.
10. Finally, washing both feet to the ankles starting with the right foot, including between the toes, then reciting: "Ash-hadu an la ilaha illal lahu wa ashhadu anna Muammadan 'abduhu wa rasuluh" – meaning there is no god but Allah and he has no partners, and Muhammad is his servant and messenger.
That means I get to carry around a plastic baggie full of Pig $hit.
And I know some basins in which to put it.
These basins are a GREAT idea.
These two countries have long ago adopted perhaps the most extreme interpretation of Islam.
Not only is America going all out to appease Muslims, but you are going all out to appease the extremists and this is extremely dangerous.
LOLLLL!!
They have installed these at 10 Minnesota colleges , all funded by taxpayer funds…… State schools, of course.
Of course. . .and the 'et al' is expanding to serve a growing community. . .
It would be funny, if it wasn’t so true.
They believe demons reside there....lol!
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Doesn’t it seem only natural that devil worshippers would know when demons reside within their noses?
Just think. If the official used his name while uttering a common sense question, he/she would be fired faster than Imus. What a society we live in that one has to fear for one's livelihood and career investment when spouting a little logic. Words can harm and even kill in today's PC clime.
By the way, you have very cogent articles; thanks.
I hope you take my correction as helpful, despite my callousness.
For sure; and cannot be said often enough. (& as per my post #15 as well). Canada is ahead of us in accomodating Muslim 'Civil Rights'. . .but we are not so far behind. 'CAIR' there and here. . .both working to foster legal accomodations so as to facilitate their radical Muslim agenda. . .
Just pondering this gives one a 'stop the world; I want to get off' moment. . .
I could understand the issue if the airport was accommodating muslim airport employees, or muslim passengers.
But the airport and its facilities are not there for the taxi drivers. They are there for the passengers first, then the airport employees.
And they certainly cannot make an excuse about the cabbies not being able to drive to a nearby mosque.
This is a case of using taxpayer money to fund a religious facility for non-government employees.
Enjoy your local barbecue while it lasts, Kansas City. It won't be long before its banned for offending muslims.
I hope that when the bathroom is full travelers in a hurry use them for urinals.
At some point, the Flint will hit the Pan.
“They often complain that public restroom sinks do not accommodate their needs. “
Muslims are putting their feat in the sinks of our public restrooms? Disgusting.
If the muslim imigrants are so offended by the land of Great Satan, why do they come here? To perform missionary work among the kufir?
"Years ago after a dinner party at my house, I was horrified when I went into the bathroom. Toilet paper was strewn everywhere, the toilet was was on the verge of overflowing, the floor was all wet and there were footprints on the toilet seat. It was a nightmare I will never forget."
When Cheryl Crowe was hyping - as are many 'greenies' - the one-sheet-per-person toilet paper approach; I could only wonder if she/they would not want exceptions. . .say to 'food handlers' - which actually, means 'all of us'; of course. . .but wondered where does Cheyrl dine. . .her favorite night spots. . .are these one-piece-per' people going to take care of her food and drink? How about her neighbors and it is cook-out party-time. One sheet per person? What are these people thinking? Or, rather NOT thinking. . .What next here. . .the one-hand only custom would be then called into play?
Now; upon reading your blog; am wondering; do Muslim 'food handlers' here. . .working in dining establishments, use toilet paper? If not. . .should they not be working elsewhere; and not handling the public's food? Or is that Left-handers need not apply. . .?
Anyway; more than I want to think about perhaps; but it had crossed my mind. . .and your blog reminded me. .
They are banning 'smoke' in public places. . .why not the 'offensive' pork smoke' from that Barbeque House down the street that blows over. . .and through a Muslim home. . .car-driven-by-Muslim. . .a Muslim pedestrian. . .
OMG (soon to be OMA). . .it IS coming!
No muslim food handlers do not as a rule use toilet paper. They use water and their left hand and fingers.
Stay away from the ones with long or uncut fingernails.
I'll leave the rest to your imagination.
It is bad really bad. Im sure many who have lived in a Muslim country can relate to that story though.
I found out later who did that to my bathroom and I just had to bite my tongue. The reprobate had climbed up on top of the toilet flung down his pants and dropped a bomb and then sprayed water and crap all over the bathroom. it was the most disgusting thing you have ever seen.
Over here we call it at times a third world country with first world facilities. The guy looked okay, he just didn't know how to use a toilet.
I've caught a lot of flack from many Americans visiting the region for a few days staying a five star hotel and going home thinking there is not difference between us and them.
ahhhh. . .'thanks'. . .Really. . .
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