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| Foot-Washing for Muslims May Only Be First Step |
| 2007-04-16 |
| 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? Dianna Cusick, MCTC's director of legal affairs, is overseeing the project. She referred me to the Muslim Accommodations Task Force, whose website she is using as a primary resource (www.startribune.com/2617). "They've done all the research," she said. |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #13 "Foot-Washing for Muslims May Only Be First Step" Whaddaya mean "may"? |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2007-04-16 22:38 |
| #12 Whoa, whoa, whoa! I wuz just startin' to like the lady, but the libs HATE her? I'm in love, man! |
| Posted by: Bobby 2007-04-16 22:07 |
| #11 Well now we all know where to piss when on campus. Katherine Kersten is the one reporter in Minnesota that keeps up on this crap. The liberals hate her. |
| Posted by: Icerigger 2007-04-16 18:24 |
| #10 Need a nose bidget too! |
| Posted by: Shipman 2007-04-16 17:09 |
| #9 As an Englishmen I expect beer at lunch. Try this in Canada and you will be treated as an alcoholic. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-04-16 16:44 |
| #8 "Where do these fricking rules come from?" Frozen Al, They come from Hassan Mohamud, Imam of St. Paul’s Al-Taqwa Mosque and President of the Somali Institute for Peace and Justice. And they’re just not required to wash their feet – if you catch my drift. |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2007-04-16 16:12 |
| #7 I think I would piss in the wash basin on general principles. |
| Posted by: anymouse 2007-04-16 15:11 |
| #6 Here's hoping that some concerned non-Muslim students get all confused and use the foot washing facilities as toilets. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-04-16 14:42 |
| #5 The "camel's nose"... |
| Posted by: mojo 2007-04-16 13:40 |
| #4 No accommodations. Period. This is voluntary proto-dhimmitude and will only inspire a host of new Muslim "needs" whereby they will jerk us around endlessly. Do they have siestas for the Hispanic students? Does the cafeteria serve dinner at 10:00PM for the Italian students? These idiots need to take some pointers from the Somalian cabbie situation. Muslims will conjure up artificial crises where there are none so long as it causes more trouble for the Infidel. Enough of this horseshit! |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-04-16 13:26 |
| #3 Frozen Al, this FANTASY like the BURQUA and praying seven times a day are all made up by FANATICS. So MCTC is ENABLING extremists. Which makes me wonder why so many Muslim extremists are attending a technical collgege? Probably going to make that next big scientific advance for the Arab/Isamic world. I wonder where these graduates are going to get a job? |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2007-04-16 13:25 |
| #2 Are these guys saying the Bedouin rubbed their genitals with sand when they couldn't get any water? True Grit |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-04-16 12:58 |
| #1 AS a Minnesotan, I have a basic question. Given that the bedouin didn't have enough water to bathe 5 times a day, and given that they rubbed their skin with sand instead of water: 1) Where do these fricking rules come from? (Certainly not from Mo) 2) Are these guys saying the Bedouin rubbed their genitals with sand when they couldn't get any water? 3) Why are we trying to accomodate religious rules that aren't applied in their original countries? 4) What makes you think they keep making up rules just to pull your chain? Al |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2007-04-16 11:31 |