[fweingart]

Foot-washing in regular sinks can be a messy business.

So is scrubbing out one's nostrils in a public lavatory sink.

This is all political correctness gone wild. The simpletons who promote this accommodation will have a surprised look on their face after their head is removed and held aloft for all to see.

[Slapshot68]

Muslims make up around 1% of our population. Why is it this nation is so interested in catering to the vast minorities?

[period end of story]

Footbaths today, black hoods and swords tomorrow?

[Tennessee Nana]

You just know someone is going to pee in it

LOL

[tortdog]

I could care less if a venue chooses to install foot baths to accommodate its patrons. And if it is so bad to witness (I never have) then I will take my business elsewhere.

And a contrary attitude does seem to be bias against the faith of others.

I do think it is hypocritical of the ACLU and the atheists to not challenge public institutions for funding the installation, but not sure that a stance has yet to be taken on the issue.

[OldYank1]

I wonder what will happen the first time these “foot baths” are used by a non Muslim for a non Muslim purpose.

[Mikey_1962]

Last year, it was reported that the University of Michigan-Dearborn, where more than 10% of students are Muslim, announced it would install $25,000 foot-washing stations in a number of rest rooms.

I went to UMD for some of the Automotive Engineering courses.

You were as likely to hear Arabic in the halls as much as English.

If Catholics demanded Holy Water stations everybody would scream "separation of Church and State"

[HenpeckedCon]

Why can’t they wash their feet in a toilet like their brethren in “Palestine”?

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Foot-washing in regular sinks can be a messy business

Turn around, there's water in the toilet.

Or spend your loose change on

[verga]

Last year, it was reported that the University of Michigan-Dearborn, where more than 10% of students are Muslim, announced it would install $25,000 foot-washing stations in a number of rest rooms.

Where are we going and why are we in this handbasket?

[King of Florida]

If Muslim footbaths start making inroads, so too will people be carrying around these to sprinkle in them:

[NoCountryForLiberals]

University of Michigan-Dearborn, where more than 10% of students are Muslim, announced it would install $25,000 foot-washing stations... So a bunch of religious fanatics use activism to force a public institution funded by public funds to make special accomodation s for them using public money. The religious right could learn from this bunch. Kidding. The religious left sure has. Where were the free market advocates in all this: let them buy there own bathrooms with this special equipment.

[PubliusMM]

“The ablutions can take several minutes and involve repeated washing or rinsing of the hands, mouth, nostrils, face, arms, forehead, hair, ears and, finally, the feet.”

All that...and they still haven’t figured out toilet paper? Seems a bit fishy, to me.

Accommodation, appeasement and apology have become the hallmarks of the DhimmiLib crowd when dealing with anything muzzie. Foot baths are just a symptom. The problem is the crazed muzzies, themselves. Brainwashed into blind submission to a pedophile prophet given to spouting (and later revising) ‘divine’ visions. Subjugated to the seventh century mindset maintained by morally bankrupt imams and clerics with nothing new to offer the world in the last 1400 years. Commanded by their playbook, the quran, to Conver the infidel, Enslave the infidel, or Kill the infidel.
Foot bath? Use the toilet. It’s closer to the floor, and the water flow is better. Get over it. If you don’t like it, perhaps you’d be better accommodated in a country that represents your views and beliefs more closely.

[Steely Tom]

When I was in college back in the '70's, there were places on campus that had been plastered with posters extolling the great achievements of Albania under their majestic and infallable leader, Enver Hoxha. They were strange and kind of funny, in an annoying way.

The thing I remember is that these posters were stuck to walls with a glue that was practically inpenetrable. You could see where people (presumably University custodians) had tried mightily to scrape them off, to almost no avail. The were still legible. All Hail Enver Hoxha, Mighty Leader Of A New Albania!

I was just thinking, what if little stickers, using that glue as adhesive, could be made, but of that "bomb-head Muhammad" from the Jyllands-Posten incident. They could come to good use where these "foot baths" are located.

[NRA1995]

I’d love to catch one of them washing his feet in a public restroom and dump pig blood into the basin.....

[weegee]

Footbaths? I was using those to wash the dog poop off of my genuine pigleather footBALL.

[Daveinyork]

let’em use the bidet, or better yet, the WC.

[Greg F]

Somehow, the American Civil Liberties Union - normally given to howls of execration at the mere thought of a creche in any semipublic place at Christmastime - is not challenging any of this. Why?

Because the real enemy of the left is Christianity not religion per se. The left ultimately fights what is good.

[Missouri gal]

This whole idea of needing foot baths in public places is absolutely brand new. Even in their own homes, Muslims preparing to pray do not bother to take a bath each time, and you do not see even 1% of Muslims praying five times a day ANYWHERE in the world. It’s simply not do-able, except in the most extreme Muslim totalitarian states, such as Iran used to be, where there was severe punishment for failing to stop every activity 5 times a day. (Don’t know if it still is.) Demanding special baths is a ploy to force the dhimmis to “feel themselves subdued.”
The common practice is to have a fountain outside a mosque, or sometimes showers inside mosques, where Muslims who gather to pray together can bathe. I have NEVER before heard of needing them in a secular location.

[Tatze]

Footbaths? I just thought they were funny looking urinals.

[Eye of Unk]