Posted on 09/16/2007 6:46:36 PM PDT by yorkie
One small step at a time, America is joining the umma, the global community of nations dominated by Islam. The latest example comes from Indianapolis, where the new billion dollar-plus airport terminal will include foot bath facilities designed specifically for the use of Muslim cab drivers performing ritual ablutions.
The blog Advance Indiana raises the right questions about this misguided enterprise:
If the foot baths are for everybody's use, as [airport spokesman] Dawson contends, why aren't they being installed in all of the bathrooms at the new airport? And if they are being installed to accommodate Muslim taxi cab drivers as is obviously the case, then why aren't similar accommodations being provided for Muslim airline passengers who patronize the airport? It looks like a slippery slope to me. What do you think? If the ACLU actually fought for principles, instead of political positions, it would be fighting this obvious expenditure of public funds to favor one specific religious group. But of course the ACLU is nothing more than a leftist pressure group which only pretends to embrace the Constitution when it serves a specific agenda. Advance Indiana comments:
Here's the ACLU's statement explaining why it chose not to file suit against the University of Michigan after it installed foot baths in campus restrooms. While the ACLU acknowledged that the expenditure of public funds to facilitate a religious practice raised red flags, it found the university's motivation for installing the foot baths was a "practical cleanliness and safety issue." Basically, the ACLU felt the Muslim students would wash their feet in the restroom whether or not the foot baths were made available. If they had to use the sinks, the concern was the bathroom floors were getting slopped up and some students didn't want to use the sinks after people washed their feet in them. While it may seem harmless to some to enable Muslim cab drivers to perform this ritual, the fact is that similar accommodations would never be tolerated for other religious groups (how about Holy Water founts for Catholic passengers praying for safety prior to boarding flights?). This is evidence that will be understood by Muslims seeking to establish the Global Caliphate that America lacks the will to oppose their domination, so long as it takes one step at a time. Treating Islam more favorably than other religions is demanded by Muslims and accommodated whenever they attain a critical mass. It is a sure indicator of Dhimmitude.
I see a lot of bacon fat clogging the pipes.
Wonder what kind of backlash would result if a tipsy traveler, say Don Carlos, mistook one of those foot baths for a urinal? Hmm!
...they’re taking their shoes off in a filthy bathroom? This sounds like a health risk to me.
And then you have to factor in that this shows preference to one religion.
Well, duh. Even ACLU members' necks make a bloody mess when their heads are sliced off.
drip...drip...drip.
The Muslims aim to wear us down and then take over our country. They need to go home now.
Gee, how did that unattended sledgehammer bust up all those footbaths? Kinda odd, ain’t it?
Aren’t airports funded by the Government?
Isn’t there some kind of brew ha-ha about separation of Church and State that doesn’t allow religious symbols, icons, prayers or any other such thing on public properties funded by tax dollars?
I think that this needs to be headed to court, after all if the muzzies can have footbaths, why can’t Christians have baptismals at airports?
Having grown up in Indianapolis I would like to assure everyone that although there aren't a lot of snakehandlers around the place, they are enough that everybody has met some of them.
Someone on the airport authority board or the architectural engineering design team has "connections".
Moslems would be crazy to use a footwashing area open to everybody ~ some of those folks are going to be in there sipping poison and swapping rattlers.
Fur Shur!
If I ever see one of these, I’m totally going to stick my nasty, infidel feet in it. I’d probably get some disease, though.
First muslim footbath I see, I’m going to use for a urinal.
This one isn't exclusively Islamic.
Might be worth carrying around a package of bacon. Even without the bacon, the packaging would be enough. That would get everybody hysterical. If you have a four-hour layover the time would just fly by.
My thought exactly. A urinal or worse. Or play doe to gum up the drain.
You could always say, “Well, it looks just like the bomb-sight crapper I saw in Istanbul just yesterday”!
Might be worth carrying around a package of bacon. Even without the bacon, the packaging would be enough. That would get everybody hysterical. If you have a four-hour layover the time would just fly by.
darn, you thought of that first. if i ever go to the airport i will get some bacon first.
I think that they should install little fonts for holy water at the entrance to all jetways. This way good Catholics (and any other Christians who wishes to) can bless themselves and make the sign of the cross before boarding their flight.
Hmm, following the logic here, Muslims are the only ones who perform ritual ablutions; us infidels don’t. But the airport administrators say these footbath facilities are “for everybody’s use.” They do not specify what that use might be for infidels. I am pretty sure, however, that some rather creative uses will be found...
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