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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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!
Will do! They might also double as a bidet :-)
As another Freeper so eloquently put, one man’s footbath is another man’s urinal...
I can do better than that :)
This footbath thing has me wondering. Where are they in their desert countries where they have no water? Does each house have a footbath or just in the mosques? I really doubt that each Muslim washes their feet a couple times a day. I think this is more to make us cater to them. This is becoming madness. No footbaths...use the urinals. Stop catering to Muslims & their demands..
Listen to these words carefully - The foot basins to accommodate Muslims don't even exist here in a Muslim majority multicultural society - if they tried to do it the other races would express their outrage!
Maybe Americans are so dense that they don't have a clue of what they are up against - so let me give you a clue - it is not about their "needs" - it is about DESTROYING you and getting YOU to SUBMIT!!!
They are trying it elsewhere as well...
"The Islamic government has made enormous efforts to prevent prostitution, create job opportunities for the graduates of religious institutes (Imam Hatip Schools) - whose education does not qualify them to work in modern administrations - and appoint an Islamist as the Head of the Central Bank. In addition, municipalities, which are controlled by the Justice and Development Party, have strived to change toilets and dispose of everything 'Western'...[sic]"
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My experience with Washington, D.C. cabdrivers is that the answer is yes. I finally found a cab company near where I live that employs elderly black American men and I use it exclusively. They are wonderfully protective, their cabs are clean and they don't have hygiene issues. Oh, and they actually know where they are going. And yes I am a generous tipper when it is my fellow Americans I am tipping.
I heard it was something about “washing away your protection from evil”...
Fine, I demand church pews to be built as well.
Well said & so true. ~Pandora~
Will the muzzies take offense if I use the foot baths to wash my infidel feet?
Reason #1000 that colleges suck.
footbaths = pork rind storage bins.
“”As another Freeper so eloquently put, one man’s footbath is another man’s urinal...””
But there is a slight difference. Usually the one how use this as a urinal has no intention of stabbing the one he sees using it as a footbath .
Would this work the other way around ? I dont think so .
I was referring to the muslim propensity to not wash their bodies - they fear washing off their “protection”.
It actually works - no one wants to be near the stinkin’ bastards.
footbaths = pork rind storage bins.
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Or, USED pork rind storage bins.
On further thought, it would seem that any ‘misuse’ would constitute a ‘hate crime’, and would mandate costly maintenance or complete replacement of such fixtures. It is only going to get worse.
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