Posted on 10/03/2007 6:46:12 AM PDT by pitinkie
As more than a dozen universities and colleges across the country have done, the school is looking to install foot baths for ritualistic cleansing in a new Islamic center proposed for its more-than-1,500 Muslim students.
While a home for the center has yet to be secured, NYU is in talks with the Archdiocese of New York about buying its building at 238 Thompson St., where the student Catholic and Islamic centers are currently housed.
In a bathroom there by the Muslim prayer room - as well as in more-visible university bathrooms - Muslim students wash before each of five daily prayers, a task they precariously conclude by rinsing their feet in hip-high sinks.
Although students haven't been clamoring for foot baths, according to leaders and members of NYU's Muslim community, they would prefer them to standard sinks where washing leads to wet floors, dirty conditions and, at times, uncomfortable moments.
Graduate student Tahir Saeed, here from England, said he would welcome foot baths - as simple as a spigot and drain in the corner - like the ones he used as an undergraduate student at the University of London.
Imam Khalid Latif, the 24-year-old chaplain of the Islamic Center at NYU, suggested that securing a new home for the group was more important than planning what amenities it might have. He was also more concerned with expanding halal food options for Muslims at the central student dining hall.
But in an ideal situation, he acknowledged, "Would it be nice? Yeah, it would."
Non-Muslim students interviewed at the campus suggested yesterday that even if foot baths were installed in a public place like the student library, they would not likely create a stir on the liberal campus.
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But do they have a Mikva?
HMMM...
No islamic center and no footbaths! To hell with this nonsense!
Seperation of church and state? Does NYU receive fed monies? Who is footing (pun intended) for this plumbing? Tax dollars?
Every red-blooded American male ought to pee in these things when he comes across them in a public place.
It is coming to a town near you soon! Be afraid, very afraid.
He was also more concerned with expanding halal food options for Muslims at the central student dining hall.
Abner Mikva?.........
Every red-blooded American male ought to pee in these things when he comes across them in a public place.
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I’m in.
Why are their feet always dirty? Maybe they should just take a shower at home like a normal person. And put on some deoderant while they’re at it. Is B.O. a Muslim trait?
“But do they have a Mikva?”
How about holy water fonts?
What happened to the much vaunted “separation” the ACLU charges?
I don’t want to succumb to fear...lets just say I am ‘hyper-observant.’
i think not wearing deoderant is a muslim trait.
i think the question isnt to build footbaths or not....
its why the hell are they over here in school in the first place?
“NYU’s Law School, the first to bar military recruiters, originally gave up federal money so it wouldn’t violate its non-discrimination policy. It reversed that position in 1999 following a change in the law which would have prevented the entire university from receiving any federal funding if any one part of the university refused access to military recruiters. Faced with a monetary loss exceeding $130 million a year, including federal financial aid for undergraduates, NYU decided to allow recruiters back onto campus.”
If the Muslims pay for their own “Islamic Center” and get no tax payer money ...no different than other religions do in other public universities.... than no problem...they can put in bidets, urinal troughs or what ever they like. However if it is on the tax payer’s dime no way.
New Jihad Watch: The Orwellian “Islam is Peace” campaign
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/10/03/new-jihad-watch-the-orwellian-islam-is-peace-campaign/
Don’t get it...are the Muslims using urinal-affixed lavatories as Islamic prayer rooms?
And the prayer meeting is not currently in session, and all the wall urinals are occupied, can one utilize the new floor urinal?
Yeah, our troops are over there fighting that cult of Islam but yet they are here building strongholds within our very society. God Help Us All!
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