Public Minnesota College to Install Foot-Washing Basins for Muslim Students

FoxNews: Summary of reported info - A Minneapolis College has banned Christian traditions like Christmas music has no such qualms about promoting Islam. According to the Star Tribune, the Minneapolis Community and Technical College plans to use taxpayer funds to install special (daily prayer preparation) facilities for the "ritual foot-washing" of Muslim students. Even ACLU spokesmen find the school's policies on religion inconsistent." The Constitution draws a line between church and state, but the line is one of neutrality, not hostility," said the group's director of legal affairs. This is not the first religious controversy to hit Minneapolis. Last year, Muslim cabbies began refusing fares for people carrying liquor, citing religious reasons. But college president Phil Davis says the two accommodations are very different. The foot washing facilities are not about religion, they are about customer service and public safety. Davis points out if there are no facilities, Muslim students will have to wash their feet in bathroom sinks which he says is not sanitary and dangerous for the students. [Read More]

Comment: Obviously, the school's definition of religious tolerance is selective. Surely if evangelicals had requested a baptismal font--let alone one funded by the state--they would have been laughed out of the building.

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