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Equipping a Bathroom One of the very strict Muslim customs with regard to cleanliness is that of washing with water after using the toilet. Most Muslims are very uncomfortable with the notion of toilet paper and with the lack in western bathrooms of a clean water supply directly attached to the toilet. Probably the most humane gesture you can make to a newly- arrived Kurdish family is to provide them with some convenient way to wash while sitting on the toilet. In American bathrooms where sinks can be inconveniently far from the toilet, the Kurdish solution to the problem in places with no running water can be adapted: a vase (unbreakable) with a narrow neck, kept filled with clean water and placed by the toilet. Kurdish women can also be shown that all public rest rooms include sinks and that a plastic squeeze bottle carried in one's purse can be filled at such a sink when necessary.