US Airport Uses Taxpayer Money To Construct Prayer Space For Muslims

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How do you separators feel about this?

As if things couldn’t get any more ridiculous as more and more Americans pander to Islam, San Francisco International Airport has constructed a special prayers space for Muslims in which they can wash their hands and feet before they pray.

While the adherents to Islam are required to offer prayers five times a day, along with a ritual that also calls for a ceremonial cleansing, many San Francisco cab drivers are unable to accomplish this apparently in bathroom facilities. At least that’s what it sounds like they want us to believe.

According to SFGate:

Muslim cab drivers pray inside San Francisco International Airport garage. Airport has furnished them with a cleansing station to wash their hands and feet.

Muslim cab drivers pray inside San Francisco International Airport garage. Airport has furnished them with a cleansing station to wash their hands and feet.

For many cab drivers, that’s meant either lugging bottled water around or using one of the bathrooms inside the terminal to wash — a practice not always welcomed by airport passengers.

So Royal Cab driver Hasan Khan, 52, a Pakistani immigrant, collected some 300 signatures from fellow cabbies, urging the airport to give them their own cleansing station.

Airport brass obliged — and the wash equipment was installed on the ground floor of the main garage, right next to where the drivers congregate for their breaks.

Airport spokesman Doug Yakel said, “The way we look at it…this was in the interest of maintaining a good relationship with ground transportation providers.”

Ah, but did they use public money? Yes they did.

Mr. Yakel says that those resources were nominal, with work done by in-house plumbers.

So how does this square with the very people, many who live in San Francisco, who are always crying “Separation of Church and State”? Apparently they are just fine with it.

Royal Cab driver Hasan Khan washes at cleansing station furnished by the airport.

Royal Cab driver Hasan Khan washes at cleansing station furnished by the airport.

In fact, Khan realizes that not everyone will appreciate the facility or their tax dollars being used to construct it. He must have read my mind.

He then attempts to state that Christians generally pray at Church on Sundays. While that may be true for “professed” Christians, those of us who take the Scriptures seriously pray daily, often many times, but I don’t see airports making room for that. Khan tries to say that because Muslims pray five times daily that it’s different for them as it’s woven into their daily routine.

“We are very happy,” said Ahmed Algazali, 49, a fellow driver from Yemen as he prepared to join Khan for a late-afternoon garage prayer.

How long do you think this will take to catch on America? Not that I expect the people of San Francisco to oppose any of this simply because it’s not Jewish or Christian, but I do find it ironic that they would allow Muslims such a generous tax-funded offer. However, I’m sure this is nothing that a pound of bacon could rectify.

Calls to SFO to find out the amount of money used have not been returned.

Read more: http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/07/u...truct-prayer-space-for-muslims/#ixzz2Y08GqqqI
 
Don't worry, the demalquedacrats will gloss right over this. Desh will be along shortly to explain why this is a good thing. I guess we should be glad these guys are praying instead of blowing themselves up.

This is part of the silent jihad that the muslimes are waging on the west. Of course the lefties are completely blind to it as they are in love with multiculturalism as long as it has nothing to do with Christianity
 
Did the taxpayers pay for the Christian Scientist Reading Room and the Berman Reflection Room at the same airport?

What's that you say?

Yes????
 
a) old news http://blog.sfgate.com/matierandross/2013/06/09/airports-garage-now-muslim-house-of-worship/

b)

c) As Howey said - there are usually chapels inside airports

d) apparently Kansas City did it back in 2007; haven't heard of KC being the new Mecca now....
http://www.wnd.com/2007/04/41323/


so, YAWN. Fake outrage.

Of course it's old news. They cried about it here last year when one was installed in the Milwaukee airport.

Well then you should really be upset! of course you are not.

No, I'm not. Why should I be? I could always use a good prayer before flying.
 
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Well then you should really be upset! of course you are not.

Why would we be upset? Airport is a tough place. Anything they can do to help passengers cope is great. I'm never going to use the religious room. But I'm not going to use the services for military personnel either.

What I would hope is that christians wouldn't be so small-minded that they piss and moan about services for religions other than theirs. Or even services for people with no religion. How about nursing rooms for women with babies? wouldn't that be great, even though it would only serve a small group of people?
 
What airport has a chapel?

http://www.pluralism.org/reports/view/82

Since the 1950s, over 40 chapels have been established in airports across the nation. As time has passed, these chapels have become more inclusive, incorporating not only Christians of all denominations, but also Jews, Muslims, and those of other faiths. Throughout the 1960s, 70s and 80s, a spattering of chapels opened up at some of the larger airports across the United States at the request of airline passengers, airport employees and area clergy. These included Denver (Colorado), Bush Intercontinental (Texas), Dallas - Forth Worth (Texas) and Sky Harbor (Arizona). In the 1990s, America’s airports saw a huge influx in the establishment of interfaith chapels. Many of the larger airports that already had chapels were modified to accommodate the needs of a more diverse populous, making chapels that previously catered towards Christians hospitable to people of various religious traditions. Smaller airports such as Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania), Washington Dulles (D.C.), Jacksonville (Florida), Port Columbus (Ohio), Indianapolis (Indiana) and Albany (New York) established interfaith chapels at this time. These interfaith chapels are intended for the use of people of all faiths. However, most of what has been incorporated in these new chapels caters specifically to the needs of Muslims.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/32204048/ns/travel-travel_tips/t/airport-chapels-offer-haven-more-faiths/#.UdWMjY1lRIQ

http://www.npr.org/2011/07/04/137607072/airport-chapels-flying-on-a-wing-and-a-prayer
 
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