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Friday, 5 October 2007
Pastor Organizes Rally Against Foot Baths At Indianapolis Airport

WND: The pastor of a Christian church says there's no need for public facilities such as the Indianapolis Airport to provide footwashing facilities for Muslim cab drivers, as plans now include, because the Quran does not require washing with water.

Such footbaths have become an issue at public facilities like the Indianapolis airport, where plans for the still-unfinished new terminal include such facilities. At Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix airport officials boasted of the new customer service feature, and at Kansas City the features were installed but airport officials said they were for a number of different uses...

But Rev. Jerry Hillenburg, pastor at Hope Baptist Church in Indianapolis, is holding a rally tomorrow at his church to generate opposition to the Indianapolis plans, and said his Quran gives an exemption to faithful Muslims who don't have ready access to water for their washing prior to their five-times-a-day prayer rituals.

What should they use? Dirt.

"They don't have to have water. The airports should just put some dirt out there," he said...

[He as two Koran citations to prove this.]

Hillenburg said Ten Commandments monuments are being removed from public property, prayer is banned in schools and Legislatures. "[This situation] boils down to the appeasement of Islam at the cost of oppression to Christianity," he said. "We have lived with the Supreme Court's separation of church and state for years. We've had Christmas trees banned, Nativity scenes taken down, in the state General Assembly in Indiana a federal judge ruled it is unconstitutional to have a Christian prayer." ...

Posted on 10/05/2007 11:52 AM by Rebecca Bynum
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5 Oct 2007
Hugh Fitzgerald

This brouhaha over footbaths provided for Muslims to take foot in hand -- one after the other, both feet -- and then to wash it wudu-fashion, in facilities placed in airports and other public places, paid for by public money, in likely violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, calls to mind the French expression "prendre son pied."  

Alors, on prends son pied. Et toi? Was it good for you too?

 
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