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.
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I find this WND article hard to believe. The only person quoted by name is the one saying no comment.
The idea is that the article is an expose’ and the people would be angry if they knew.
I get the idea, and I would be angry if I knew. But I don't know. I'm afraid it'll take more than one article in WND to convince me of the validity of this expose.
It won't hit the AP or the evening news.
Again a LOL on your story. . .
Have a friend who who was in Morocco; and invited to dinner. . .bathroom had no tp; but it did have a stack of washcloths(?). . .Forgot to ask him if they were clean. . .or used. . .and did not ask him if the cook had long fingernails; or not.
I have been to Japan and experienced some of this as well. . .five-star hotel with bathrooms in the public areas designed for both persuasions. . .or inclinations. . .
It was not until reading your blog that I 'got it' that tp was in fact not a requirement/necessity. . .if only by hindsight. . .so to speak. And it made me think as well; that here is another common-denominator that Libs and the 'others'. . .share. For different reasons. . .but same 'bottom line'. . .
Well, we will not see this on PBS. . .for sure. . .
They look like urinals to me...
TROP is a product of good inbreeding with a dash of camel dna..
You are correct about the breeding. A muslim is encouraged to marry within his tribe in order to keep the tribe ‘strong.’ The inbreeding has resulted in an abundance of murdering, Muslim psychopaths.
Our leaders are gutless, cringing, naive ‘Girlie People’! That, in a nutshell, is one of the main reasons as to why much of the world despises us. There are other reasons too, but that is the main one. “My God, they won’t even stand for themselves in their own country! They let ‘Tin Pot’ dictators tell ‘em what to do and would rather lock up their own citizens than upset foreigners! How, in God’s name can you respect people like that”! Welcome to America, except of course, if you are a Christian - you know how it is, they seem to upset the foreigners!
I believe that a medical journal in Europe addressed the consequences of such unions a year or two ago..
Wonderful. Let’s cater to those who want us dead. After all, appeasement always works, doesn’t it? Just ask Chamberlain!
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If you make accomodations for one religon you better be ready to make accomodations for ANY religon.
The Kansas City airport general manager had this comment, “I, for one, welcome our new Muslim overlords!”
Sure would be a tragedy if someone dropped an open bag of pork rinds there, right before the muzzein’s call.
http://www.thekansascitychannel.com/news/13227199/detail.html
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Airport officials are debunking a story posted on the Internet.
The story from WorldNetDaily.com claims that Kansas City International Airport built foot-washing basins for Islamic taxi drivers. The article alleges that airport police are afraid of Middle Eastern men who congregate near the wash areas.
KCI spokesman Joe McBride said the story isn’t true.
“It’s a case of mistaken information on the Internet and we’re trying to clear it up,” McBride said.
Taxi drivers said they comprise people from all over the world — not just the Mideast.
“All (kinds of) cab drivers we have here — Somalis, Christians, Jews, Orthodox. Everybody we have here, every nationality,” taxi driver Abdul Sharif said.
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McBride said the wash stations were installed about a year ago when the airport expanded the taxi facility and added another bathroom. He said the wash stations weren’t made for the exclusive use of anyone or any group in particular.
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“The guys making a big issue out of it — it’s not just for Muslims,” taxi driver Shareif El-Mahdi said.
“I think the Internet article blew it out of proportion. (It) had the wrong info about the facilities, gave the wrong impression. I think once people learn the facts, they’ll see it’s not a big deal at all,” McBride said.
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Doubletalk. Can we infidels wash our dog poo covered shoes in them?
How about washing the salt off of our finest Missouri cured country hams in the wash basins?
Not that we’d waste a ham, but we’d see some heads exploding I’m sure.
But it’s my Christmas Holy ham!!
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