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Ritual-washing area for Muslims at MCTC may be only the beginning
Star Tribune ^
| April 15, 2007
| Katherine Kersten
Posted on 04/16/2007 6:17:48 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
Last week, I wrote about Minneapolis Community and Technical College, which is planning to install facilities to help Muslim students perform ritual washing before daily prayers. It's a simple matter of extending "hospitality" to newcomers, says President Phil Davis -- no different than providing a fish option in the college cafeteria for Christian students during Lent. MCTC is apparently the first public institution in Minnesota to enter this unfamiliar territory. Where is it looking for guidance?
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This seems like a facility built with tax dollars, that is exclusive to only one group of people. When a Cafeteria serves Fish on Friday it serves other foods too, and anyone can eat the Fish wether they are Catholic or not, Will anyone be able to use these Shower Facilities? Equal Shower Rights for All!
To: AmericanMade1776
They can use the toilets.
To: AmericanMade1776
...Muslim students perform ritual washing before daily prayers.In human blood, whether actually or symbolically.
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posted on
04/16/2007 6:22:00 AM PDT
by
onedoug
To: AmericanMade1776
Here's their ritual washing area.....
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posted on
04/16/2007 6:22:07 AM PDT
by
stm
(Believe 1% of what you hear in the drive-by media and take half of that with a grain of salt)
To: AmericanMade1776
So the State is in the business of providing for Religion now?
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posted on
04/16/2007 6:22:53 AM PDT
by
P-40
(Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
To: AmericanMade1776
Okay, when will they demand separate restrooms and drinking fountains?..........
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posted on
04/16/2007 6:23:32 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(If it's consensus, it's not science. If it's science, there's no need for consensus......)
To: AmericanMade1776; MplsSteve
Ping for your Minnesota list.
More Keith Ellison fallout.
It’s a shame this state is chock full of appeasers, and with our tax dollars. This is infuriating!
To: AmericanMade1776
Just raise peoples taxes to build them. That is what they do best in the land of 10,000 taxes.
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posted on
04/16/2007 6:25:53 AM PDT
by
Piquaboy
(22 year veteran of the Army, Air Force and Navy, Pray for all our military .)
To: Red Badger
You have to read this..from the same article:
At Georgetown University, Muslim women can live apart in housing that enables them to “sleep in an Islamic setting,” as the website puts it. According to a student at the time the policy was adopted, the university housing office initially opposed the idea, on grounds that all freshman should have the experience of “living in dorms and dealing with different kinds of people.” That might sound appealing, Muslim students told a reporter in an article featured on the website. But in their view, the reporter wrote, “learning to live with ‘different kinds of people’ “ actually “causes more harm than good” for Muslims, because it requires them to live in an environment that “distracts them from their desire to become better Muslims, and even draw[s] weaker Muslims away from Islam.”
http://www.startribune.com/191/story/1122449.html
To: Vn_survivor_67-68
“They can use the toilets.”
None of the ones I have known in my 64 years did regular washing let alone ritual washing.
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posted on
04/16/2007 6:28:16 AM PDT
by
antisocial
(Texas SCV - Deo Vindice)
To: AmericanMade1776
But....
learning to live with different kinds of people actually causes more harm than good for Muslims, because it requires them to live in an environment that distracts them from their desire to become better Muslims, and even draw[s] weaker Muslims away from Islam. Didn't the college forget what the students are there for, to learn to live with different kinds of people????????
To: AmericanMade1776
My Alma Mata
So where' the ACLU?
crickets...
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posted on
04/16/2007 6:30:09 AM PDT
by
Manic_Episode
(Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps...)
To: AmericanMade1776
The Balkanization of America accelerates.
If the world does not enter a muslim dark age, historians will someday include the US in histories of once great nations that committed suicide.
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posted on
04/16/2007 6:30:15 AM PDT
by
Jacquerie
(All Muslims are suspect.)
To: AmericanMade1776
This is the story posted right above this one. As I continue to read, I will undoubtedly run across stories that detail the banishment of the phrase, “Global War on Terror” or something about our Congressmembers flocking to the MidEast on the taxpayers’ dime. We have lost our perspective in such a very short time. This old man is who we should be listening to about the GWOT, not Hajib Pelosi.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1818083/posts
As for the Muslims, they should get nothing in the U.S. We are at war with them. Let them demand a footbath in their own sand dune of origin. See where that gets them.
Also, the Muslim students are striking for prayer rooms at the Northwestern U’s football stadium. Why can’t anyone see that the Muslims are targeting places where very large groups of people congregate? Hurry up and forget about the suicide bomber outside the Oklahoma football stadium. 60K+ in attendance the day that “convert” blew himself up. Appalling.
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posted on
04/16/2007 6:30:19 AM PDT
by
ishabibble
(ALL AMERICAN INFIDEL)
To: AmericanMade1776
But in their view, ..., learning to live with different kinds of people actually causes more harm than good for Muslims SO this should tell EVERYONE that muslims DO NOT WANT TO ASSIMILATE!...............
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posted on
04/16/2007 6:32:20 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(If it's consensus, it's not science. If it's science, there's no need for consensus......)
To: AmericanMade1776
Horrific appeasement of the crocodiles.
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posted on
04/16/2007 6:34:49 AM PDT
by
tkathy
To: AmericanMade1776
Its a ritual handwashing. Sell them a bottle of bottled waters and they can pur it over their hands. Deed done>
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posted on
04/16/2007 6:36:32 AM PDT
by
sgtbono2002
(I will forgive Jane Fonda, when the Jews forgive Hitler.)
To: AmericanMade1776
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posted on
04/16/2007 6:36:43 AM PDT
by
radar101
(Dream Team--Hunter&Thompson)
To: AmericanMade1776
They don't need running water to clean off. They could just use those disposable "wet wipes."
What's next -- every single meal at the cafeteria must offer a halal meal, a kosher meal, a vegan meal, a vegetarian meal, a barbecue meal (that's my religion...nothing but barbecue)??
To: sgtbono2002
But that just doesn’t make them feel “Special”( or seperate from others), they need a special facility for their ritual handwashing/
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