MUSLIM FOOTBATHS: YOUR TAX $ AT WORK!

They have NO RIGHT to build "Muslim" wash stations in public places on the taxpayers' dime (well a bit more than that.) But it's just that simple, they have no right.

You can't say Merry Christmas or have Easter bunnies bouncing about but we have to be subjected to body washing in public places? Yech. And it ain't what the founding fathers had in mind. $25,000 in university money on foot-washing stations so that Muslim students at the University of Michigan-Dearborn can wash their bodies before prayers? FIGHT BACK!

College's foot bath plans spark backlash The Detroit News
Project for Muslim students draws accusation U-M Dearborn is giving faith favored treatment.

DEARBORN -- The University of Michigan-Dearborn plans to spend $25,000 for foot-washing stations, making it easier for Muslim students to practice their religion but sparking questions about the separation of church and state.

The university claims the stations are needed to accommodate Muslim students, who must ritually wash their bodies -- including the feet -- up to five times each day before prayers. But critics hit conservative blogs and radio airwaves Monday to argue public money shouldn't cover the cost.

This is so out of hand.

"Technically, they've got a problem, because it's public money they're using to pay for this," said Hal Downs, president of the Michigan chapter of Washington, D.C.-based Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

"It's one of those issues that we're going to be facing more and more in this community."

The issue may push hot buttons in Metro Detroit -- home to as many as 250,000 Muslims -- but in nearby Ypsilanti, no one raised objections when Eastern Michigan University included a private bathroom with a foot-washing area in a new student union that opened in November, said Glenna Frank Miller, its director.

U-M Dearborn will include the floor-level stations at two bathrooms to be constructed in August at the University Center and Fairlane Center buildings, said Terry Gallagher, spokesman for the university. The units are necessary because some students resorted to washing their feet in sinks.

The university of 8,600 students doesn't track them by religion, Gallagher said.

"This was a reasonable accommodation," he said.

Comments

[tazzerman2000]

OMG, how freakin low can we go??? So, what's next? I wonder, can we sue to get a mikvah installed?? We could use the same exact arguements and it does seem to me at least, to be a "reasonable accommodation"...

[chsw]

There are alternate uses for these things to justify public expenditures. If the footwashing station has a vessel - like a bowl or trough - then it will also work as a drinking station for seeing-eye dogs.

If the footwashing station is simply an insert in the wall where one inserts the foot and water flushes over it, then it can be a urinal for dwarves, children or for the handicapped.

Perhaps your other readers can think of other purposes for these items that would enable the college chiefs to say that they show no preferential treatment.

[Thomas Carney]

OK, if tax dollars are going to be used for foot washing stations, then tax dollars should be used to provide kosher meals in school dining halls, and chapels for Christians, and a place reserved for the Blessed Sacrament for Catholics.

Those things won't happen. So why is it that the taxpayers should foot the bill for footwashing stations again? Hey, how about this?? Muslims should use my grandma's old chamber pot for washing their feet!!!

[Muslims Against Sharia]

Offend a Radical - Urinate in a Footbath

As a staunch supporter of the Constitution, which expressly states, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion...," I am embarrassed by many of my countrymen who are bending over backwards to accommodate radical Muslims by installing religious ritualistic devices in public places.

As a Muslim, I am embarrassed, as well, by many of my co-religionists who attempt to impose their radical religious agenda on American society by installing the same ritualistic devices in these same public places.

As an American Muslim, I am personally offended when I read about footbaths on public property, i.e., municipal airports, state colleges, etc. I think that the best way to combat these blatant Constitutional violations is by turning the aforementioned footbaths into urinals.

Our government seems to have neither brains nor balls to combat the advance of stealth Gihad, but I believe that American people are smart enough and courageous enough to handle the threat of Sharia.

I am asking every American patriot to place this (see image) or similar note above every footbath located on public property, then take a picture and email it to us at INFO at REFORMISLAM.ORG.

Khalim Massoud
President
Muslims Against Sharia

http://muslimsagainstsharia.blogspot.com/2008/11/offend-radical-urinate-in-footbath.html