scuse me...but the university`s "footing" this to the tune of $25,000 of taxpayer`s money....what do you mean "they can`t get around this one"?...are you serious?...
Yep, I'm serious. Thanks to freedom of religion, you can't tell the dirty pricks to stop washing their nasty ass feet in the sinks....that would be insensitive. They are stuck in a position where it is either you compromise and take the high road (footbath) or you make the current practice illegal and infringe upon their "right" to practice religion and come off as insensitive organization and ends up getting raked over the coals.
$25k of tax payer money is going towards improving hygiene. I'm sure the mother ship's football program in Ann Arbor will be chipping in a couple bucks as well. It's a public university in DEARBORN! It has the LARGEST population of Muslims outside the Middle East. They are paying for it themselves if you want to take the tax-payer angle.
look,if this isn`t religious...if it`s only an issue about being sanitary,use a f-cking moistened towelette....
That's just it, at the very core, it IS religious! Since you have to "respect" religion, it becomes a hygiene issue, rather than a common sense issue.
you have NO argument... period...this is about taxpayers funding religious practices...a specific religion`s practices...
It's a hygiene issue caused by a religious ritual. This might be news to you, but I think religion should be flushed out of our society. Unfortunately, superstition is granted a pardon in areas of complete lunacy (like this) and the public is forced to deal with the consequences. Throw out the BS social and financial protection given to religion (tax breaks, etc.) and we won't have to worry about stuff like this.
gm....i really don`t know what you`re trying to say........it`s gobbledygook....please clarify...
here`s my take in a nutshell...that fricking un-american orgainzation has spent the last sixty years fighting EVERY religious accomodation in public life.....
we are at a point where you can't have christmas trees in public schools anymore....and christmas tress are a secular symbol.....
yet here we have the vaunted a.c.l.u.telling us that it's perfectly fine to build prayer foot baths with public monies for muslims?.....
Like I said before: It is an issue of health. Why is it an issue of health? Because their religious beliefs require them to clean their feet before worship. Why do we have to accomodate this unclean act? Because this country is too stupid to let go of its religious tolerance.
If you were a student, and had to share the sinks with them, what would your position be? You keep forgetting that there are more people involved than the muslims. The non-muslims deserve the footbath just as much as the muslims. Does that make sense?
say you`re religion wouldn`t allow you to use toilet paper...if you started to wash your backside in the sink, think you could get a state funded bidet?...
You do realize you are stating the exact same situation with a couple of details changed.....so, yes, they would accomodate that person.
i think the a.c.lu. is afraid....i think they`re gutless wonders...they see the violence islamists are responsible for....and they wet their beds.....
or,there are different rules for different religions...
You are missing the point. They aren't asking to teach Islam in the university, or to start each class off with a class prayer to Allah....there religious practice has created an unsanitary condition and the university is addressing it. The other students don't have to use the footbath but they do get a sink that is no longer a footwasher.
1600 years ago uncivilized man did not have shoes, therefore foot bathing (numerous times daily) was the norm.......fine...
in 2007 (and for quite some time now) we wash once, maybe twice....
and we don't smite necks either.....
Newsflash: Muslims aren't the only ones performing outdated ridiculous religious rituals.
