AffirmaMuslim Action At US Colleges

Customer service? What a crock. Wash your feet on your own time and, more importantly, your own dime. Why are tax dollars being used to fund religious practices for any religion? Also some debate links here.

But many public colleges and universities have been quietly accommodating some students’ religious activities while ignoring or even trampling on the First Amendment rights of other students.

For example, last year administrators at the Minneapolis Community and Technical College banned a coffee cart operator from playing music “tied to Christmas,” but approved the use of tax dollars to install special basins for Wudu so that Muslims could ritually wash their feet before prayer. College President Phil Davis defended this glaring double standard by absurdly insisting that “the foot-washing facilities are not about religion, they are about customer service and public safety.” At least a dozen other public colleges and universities in the nation have also installed Wudu facilities, including George Mason University in Fairfax.

Comments

[seekeronos]

We will eventually bow our knees and kiss the feet of our Muslim conquerors simply because when the muzzies cry out for special privileges (like the Wudu buckets) we will jump, and ask our Muslim masters where they want them installed...

...because everyone is scared of what a cranky muzzie might do. As for those Christians and Jews, well... there simply won't be enough of them around to matter anymore, will there? After all, the worst a cranky Christian might do is write a letter to the editor, or something.

[Phoenix]

This is the kind of stuff that has a built-in backlash to it. Some Muslim kid will go into his special footbath one day and there will be a pile of pork chops stacked up in the bath. This ridiculous, insidious kowtowing to the demands of fringe groups brings out the perverse side of our freedom-loving, take-no-prisoners American attitude. In the end, it's never worth the effort to show favoritism in our country. Even to deer. Every "Deer Crossing" sign in our country has a gazillion bullet holes in it.