Muslims Seek Prayer Room at Airport

Brietbart ^ | December 1, 2006 | Patrick Condon

[ritewingwarrior]

Airport officials said Friday they will consider setting aside a private area for prayer and meditation at the request of imams concerned about the removal of six Muslim clerics from a US Airways flight last week.

Steve Wareham, director of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, said other airports have "meditation rooms" used for prayers or by passengers who simply need quiet time.

A group of Somali clerics met with airport officials Friday and said they would attract less attention if they had a private area for prayer. Devout Muslims pray five times daily, facing the holy city of Mecca.

"When we pray, we don't want a problem. We don't want what happened last week," said Abdulrehman Hersi, an imam at Darul-Quba mosque in Minneapolis, referring to six clerics who were barred from a US Airways flight in Minneapolis after drawing the concern of some passengers.

Airports in Nashville, Tenn.; Columbus, Ohio; and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., all advertise meditation rooms. Fort Lauderdale's is billed as "For travelers seeking a quiet time." All note they are nonsectarian.

The imams at the airport Friday drew a few stares as they laid down their prayer rugs and knelt on the hard rubber floor at the airport.

The clerics requested a meeting after both the US Airways incident and a recent flap over Muslim cabdrivers who didn't want to pick up passengers carrying alcohol.

[ritewingwarrior]

The common term for 'prayer room' is 'staging area'. Yippee now the get to plan their attacks right from inside the airport. What a great idea.

[Kitten Festival]

No.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Why don't the stupid airport just build a mosque?

[OpusatFR]

Good. Then I can say a rosary or four in the same room at the same time.

[magslinger]

Bugs and claymores?

[ml/nj]

How 'bout if they go outside, like smokers?

ML/NJ

[Brilliant]

This would be a violation of the constitution.

[I see my hands]

I'll be the one with the sacramental pork rinds.

[CindyDawg]

Ok. I want my own Baptist room though. It's against my belief to share praying places.

[OpusatFR]

"I'll be the one with the sacramental pork rinds."

I carry them in my purse.

[cll]

"How 'bout if they go outside, like smokers?"

Tee hee

[appleharvey]

Why don't the stupid airport just build a mosque?

Just wait, I'm sure it's coming.

[Mo1]

Airport officials said Friday they will consider setting aside a private area for prayer and meditation at the request of imams concerned about the removal of six Muslim clerics from a US Airways flight last week.

Will they allow a Christian Chapel at the airport also ??

If not this would be a case for discrimination

[kAcknor]

What the heck. Why not? A prayer room with a Muslim cresent on the wall, connected to the wall with the Christian cross, and the one with the star of David. Prayers for all and for everyone.

Let's just build it and then announce it's open. I wonder how they react to that? (No, I don't, really).

[Tzimisce]

...what happened to "separation of church and state"?

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

They can use the communal, nondenominational meditation areas. However, there would probable be some "Christians" (who could or could not be Christian) who would oppose having Muslims worship with their rugs in such an area.

While your comment could be a wee bit paranoid (the airport could still put security cameras in the room, after all), it could happen. Muslims should worship in the existing meditation rooms, and if others object to their using such rooms, then those objectors will just have to put up with it.

[keat]

We'll it's only fair, since Irish-Catholics already have the lounge.

[Blackirish]

Put it right under the urinals.

[george76]

Behold the Peace of Islam: Picture of the Week

Allah is on a roll!  The Buddhist man under this sheet is just
one of 666 innocents murdered in the name of Islam last week.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

You're big on keeping how you make that box a secret, aren't you?

[Mo1]

yep .. if they are allowed to pray .. so can we

[keat]

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To: OpusatFR

What secret?

What secret?

[Mr. Mojo]

.....pray five times daily, facing the holy city of Mecca.

What of Mecca ceased to exist?

It would solve a lot of problems.

[doc1019]

I can pray anytime, anywhere, I don’t need a special place. Of course, my religion doesn’t require me to prostrate myself and beat my head into the floor, so I can pray sitting up, lying down, even leaning against a wall.

The only reason these people are demanding this is their need to force themselves on us, there need to show us that they are something special. By winning these concessions, they begin to dominate our culture with their PC BS. If we continue to acquiesce to their demands, we loose and they (logically) win.

[OpusatFR]

Show off!

[OpusatFR]

Forgot the LOL.

[PISANO]

We'll it's only fair, since Irish-Catholics already have the lounge.

I was fuming, ass kicking angry......then your post......I can't stop laughing.

Thanks to you, I now am safe to enter the public square!

[CindyDawg]

They need to place tables outside the room too, for dinner on the grounds after service.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Are you willing to give the code for how to do it (is it simply a table with either no border and some cellpadding or a table with no cellpadding and a border?).

[radiohead]

"I'll be the one with the sacramental pork rinds."
I carry them in my purse.

ROFLMAO!!

On a serious note, I manage to pray in public, as do many Jews, Christians, Buddhists and Hindus, to myself. I don't need to call attention to myself or have a special room for Jewish travelers. I hope airports don't give in to this crap.

[CindyDawg]

I pray. Sometimes during the entire flight. No one seems bothered.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

The way you split up who you addressed is pretty nifty, too.

[I see my hands]

My gift to you.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Muslims Seek Prayer Room at Airport

Most airports already have holding cells. ;)

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Appreciated.

[keat]

Are you willing to give the code for how to do it?

It's yours for the taking. If your using IE, just hit "View" then "Source" and you'll see the code for the whole page. Just cut and paste.

[EDINVA]

now THAT's funny !

[MaDeuce]

Proof again that what the animals did last week was a setup and this story is the proof.

Why are these animals allow to exist in this country. They are the enemy, round them up, if any are citizens ...strip them of citizenship and ship them out one-way to mecca.

EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM!

[ApplegateRanch]

And, in the mean time, do I get a chapel to pray in, before boarding the flying death-trap?

Don't be such a trouble maker, you silly dhimmi! THAT would be insulting to Islam.

[doc1019]

When I’m on an airplane I pray continually (hate flying). :)

[Gorzaloon]

If they built it at the runup area at the runway threshold, nobody would have to listen to them.

Whine, WheeeeEEE,ROARRRRRR

"allah this, allah that"

RUMBLE

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

So, what exactly is it? Your link goes to a YouTube page.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

Appreciated. Useful thing, that.

[CindyDawg]

Yeah. I've always suspected that I don't pray alone:')

[Doe Eyes]

...what happened to "separation of church and state"?

I don't think that's a Muslim belief.

[F.J. Mitchell]

LOL! But they have to share it with us Protestant imbibers too.

[svxdave]

Lets trade them Prayer Rooms in the Airports for Mormon Missionaries in Mecca.

[BunnySlippers]

Bathroom

[BunnySlippers]

Not only a bathroom but all the toilets are facing Mecca ...

(I'm not very nice about this)

[I see my hands]

"So, what exactly is it? Your link goes to a YouTube page."

That is my gift to you. Hope you like it.

I don't know what to make of it, really, it just makes me smile. I especially like where W smiles at someone in attendance.