Is the ACLU Giving Muslims Special Treatment?

FOX News ^ | June 19, 2007 | Brit Hume

[Baladas]

The University of Michigan at Dearborn is planning to spend $25,000 to install two footbaths for Muslim students to use before prayers.

Muslim leaders had considered trying to raise funds to pay for the baths privately — until the American Civil Liberties Union said it would not oppose having the university pay for the project. The director of the Detroit ACLU called the footbaths a "reasonable accommodation" to resolve "safety and cleanliness issues."

The ACLU has a long history of opposing other activities associated with prayer and religion on public property. It sued a Louisiana school board over allowing a preacher to give out pizza at school during lunch periods, and it sued a west Texas school district over an optional Bible class.

[Baladas]

Well, as long as they don't spend any money on promoting that OTHER religion, the ACLU's cool with that.

[PeterFinn]

WTF is wrong with the cretins at the ACLU?

[2ndDivisionVet]

I water wet? Does a pig shiite in it’s pen? Is the ACLU a communist front?

[ghost of nixon]

ok - this is making my blood boil

[3AngelaD]

“Gee, what are these funny looking urinals?” they wondered as as they peed into them. “Why are they so low to the floor?”

[Brilliant]

“safety and cleanliness issues.”

So the ACLU is saying that Muslims have dirtier feet than non-Muslims? That sounds very stereotypical to me.

[Master Shake]

How better for the ACLU to demonstrate their hatred for America than to conspire with muslims?

[boomop1]

Nothing they are hate America communists.

[texas_mrs]

You KNOW they don’t spend $25,000 on footbaths in their homelands. Those plastic bins are like $1.00 at Dollar General - why not use those?

[Brilliant]

It’s not just the spending of the money that’s unconstitutional. Here is an important part of the illegal nature of this proposal:

“footbaths for Muslim students”

Apparently, you have to be Muslim to use them.

[YHAOS]

This issue should settle, beyond any dispute, that the ACLU is opposed to the Judean-Christian culture of Western Civilization and nothing more.

[picard]

The ACLU must rationally know but will not cognitively recognize that the people they are allying themselves to, would cut their throat given a chance. There is no such group even remotely in comparison the the ACLU in any Muslim country. They would have been beheaded years ago.

Ergo, either the ACLU is truly demented in a Hollywood kind of way, or it is a business decision based on funding.

I choose both.

[VocalObserver]

Why not stop them from washing their feet in the sink? It’s $25,000 cheaper...

[Gritty]

[weegee]

The ACLU supports the jihadists even if they don’t support the jihad...

[Congressman Billybob]

Before Brit Hume got on this subject, I had a blog up on footbath issue here: www.theacru.org As I noted in the blog, if these footbaths are constructed with public funds, and are non-religious, then anyone should be able to use them. That includes every denomination, and every style of footwear including pointy-toed pigskin shoes.

Actually, someone should walk into court with a box load of ACLU cases from other jurisdictions, and demand that the court shut this project down, AND pay attorneys fees and costs to the parties who had to sue to shut it down.

Also, why did the Dearborn Muslims ask the DETROIT ACLU for clearance on their footbaths? Were they looking for an ACLU affiliate that was so friendly to Muslims that it was brain-dead on the law? Looks that way to me.

Congressman Billybob

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[Ohioan]

The ACLU was set up during the period 1918 to 1920 by a collection of known Fabian Socialists, Marxists and Bolshevik sympathizers, who officially launched it in 1920. It has always employed the Fabian tactic of working deceptively, so as to hide the actual agenda, which has always been the deconstruction of American institutions--the kind that can provide continuity to our culture.

See Leftwing Word Games & Religious Freedom.

Providing foot baths is harmless, but you are right to imply that were a public University to spend money to provide some facility to encourage Christian worship--particularly by a denomination closely linked to the social infrastructure of the community involved, over many generations--the ACLU would go ballistic. That is because the Christian denomination would represent an institution in support of an important aspect of the American tradition. Obviously the Islamic group does not.

William Flax

[vpintheak]

Hate America commies and hate America muzzies UNITE!

[misharu]

Well, some drunk (or not) Frat Guys could just piss it all the time. WHEWPS!! How so politically incorrect!

[picard]

There is no separating the mission of Jihad from the ‘Jihadist’.

You could also say “I support and defend pedophiles but deplore pedophilia.”

This to is circumlocution. An enabler supports the act regardless of good intentions.

Also, there is a disparity in which people the ACLU chooses to support.

For example, the ACLU petitions to have Christian Bibles removed from hotels. My opinion is that it would make their head explode if Muslims started putting Korans in hotels. But maybe I overstate the obvious. The ACLU would just ignore it and not say a word.

This sort of disparity of outrage(selective outrage) is precisly why they are widely know as the Anti-Christian-Lawyer-Union