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.
Yep, that ain’t a foot bath, it is the new bacon garbage receptacle.
I think everyone of these footbaths should have a nice ol’ pic of Mohammed on the bottom (his name be covered by pig balls).
And Jews should have mikvahs!
Shore do look like a floor-mount urinal to me...
I’m hoping some of you gents know what to do with them.
The rest of us should monopolize those footbaths. Wait until CAIR and the rest of the terrorists deamnd that only they be allowed to use them.
That will make finding the terrorists easier.
Hey! Where are all the separation of state & Church advocates? (Although Islam is not a church) And what about .....shall not establish a religion?..........Seens it is obvious the we are establishing Islam in a speedy way,
at our expense and at our peril !!!!!!!!!!!! “Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD.” Psalm 33:12
Bacon bits!
Tipsy or not, I’ll pee in one.
Just don’t mistakenly tap another’s foot...
If I ever see one of these I’m going to go buy a package of pork rinds and then ... do something.
The article admits this is being done at the demand of Muslim activists.
You can’t deny it: if there was even the SLIGHTEST hint that this was being done at the behest of a Christian group the ACLU would be suing.
Thus Islam is being favored over other religions.
Lastly - why are we encouraging people to take off their shoes in filthy bathrooms? That sounds like a health hazard to me.
Pretty much all of is-Slime is a health hazard! It needs to be banned! It is a disgusting murderous cult!
Seems that domination has grown exponentially since 9/11/01. Sane nations would've made every conceivable effort to stem the tide of Islamism after getting such an imtimate, first-hand look at its inevitable consequences. But fearful, western, terminally PC nations have done the exact opposite in their zeal to convince both themselves and everyone else that they're completely free of even the slightest trace of bigotry.
It's in fashion to assert that the U.S. would "wake up" only if it's hit with nukes or bioweapons. Perhaps it would. ....but I suspect it would only be a temporary awakening. Hit snooze button, resume denial.
Health hazard? Foot washing is only a small part of what they are supposed to practice:
http://www.theodoresworld.net/archives/2007/04/
(Scroll down a couple articles - and you can snicker at the cartoon - but, remember - I didn’t post it.)
From the article:
The Council on American-Islamic Relations has pressed government agencies and businesses to install the foot basins in restrooms.
The controversial Muslim lobby group advises employers to allow Muslim workers time to perform both the washing ritual and prayer, which “is usually about 15 minutes,” according to a pamphlet CAIR publishes called, “An Employer’s Guide to Islamic Religious Practices.”
The Islamic purification ritual, known in Arabic as “wudu,” involves a 10-step process, which includes:
1. Praising Allah while washing both hands up to the wrist three times, making sure that the water reaches between fingers and under rings.
2. Rinsing out the mouth thoroughly three times, using the right hand (the one not used for cleaning private parts) to bring the water to the mouth.
3. Snorting water into the nostrils from the right hand, three times, to cleanse them of demons that Muslims believe reside there, clearing the passages of any mucous using the left hand.
4. Washing off the tip of the nose with the left hand.
5. Washing the entire face three times from right ear to left ear.
6. Continuing to wash from forehead to throat.
7. Washing the right arm and then the left arm, three times, from the wrist up to the elbow, removing watches.
8. Moving wetted palms over the head from the top of the forehead to the back of the head.
9. Passing the wetted tips of the fingers into the grooves and holes of both ears, and also passing the wetted thumbs behind the ears and ear lobes.
10. Finally, washing both feet to the ankles starting with the right foot, including between the toes, then reciting: “Ash-hadu an la ilaha illal lahu wa ashhadu anna Muammadan ‘abduhu wa rasuluh” – meaning there is no god but Allah and he has no partners, and Muhammad is his servant and messenger.
Thank you, I appreciate it. :O)
Christians do it once a year max.
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