What Changed?

After 9-11, everything changed.

Prior to that date, what did you happen to hear, much less care to hear, about Islam?

After 9-11, most everything seemed then, and now, to revolve around Islam.

When did we have to "understand" Islam? Before? No.

When did we have to prop CAIR into the forefront? Before? No.

When you're Muslim and it's time for prayer, you have to wash your feet? It is called "ablution." So foot-washing basins make it easier for Muslims instead of sticking their feet into sinks. The Kansas City International Airport has added washing stations to the bathrooms to prepare the Muslim taxicab drivers for their prayers.

Alcohol is forbidden by Islam and dogs are considered "unclean."

The cost of the KC project is not known. "This is a touchy subject," said the Chief of Police of the Kansas City Airport Police.

Taxpayers are going to have to foot the bill because Muslims are demanding foot-washing basins.

Why are we constructing places of worship for them inside our airports?" said an airport official who requested anonymity. "Why are we catering to their rituals? We don't do it for any other religion."

Really? No shit.

The Islamic purification ritual, known in Arabic as "wudu," involves a 10-step process, which includes:

1. Praising Allah while washing both hands up to the wrist three times, making sure that the water reaches between fingers and under rings.
2. Rinsing out the mouth thoroughly three times, using the right hand (the one not used for cleaning private parts) to bring the water to the mouth.
3. Snorting water into the nostrils from the right hand, three times, to cleanse them of demons that Muslims believe reside there, clearing the passages of any mucous using the left hand.
4. Washing off the tip of the nose with the left hand.
5. Washing the entire face three times from right ear to left ear.
6. Continuing to wash from forehead to throat.
7. Washing the right arm and then the left arm, three times, from the wrist up to the elbow, removing watches.
8. Moving wetted palms over the head from the top of the forehead to the back of the head.
9. Passing the wetted tips of the fingers into the grooves and holes of both ears, and also passing the wetted thumbs behind the ears and ear lobes.
10. Finally, washing both feet to the ankles starting with the right foot, including between the toes, then reciting: "Ash-hadu an la ilaha illal lahu wa ashhadu anna Muammadan 'abduhu wa rasuluh" – meaning there is no god but Allah and he has no partners, and Muhammad is his servant and messenger.

What the hell?

Islamists are our ENEMIES. Not Catholics. Not Jews. Not Buddhists.

I know: let's just place a nice Kimber .45 right to our collective national temples.

How ignorant are we?

BZ