December 04, 2008
The Catholics are going to do what?
I thought if there was one group able to withstand the politically-correct madness that is England, it'd be the Catholic bishops.
Apparently not.
According to The Mail (U.K.), the bishops want to install Muslim prayer and footwashing facilities in Catholic schools.
Muslim prayer rooms should be opened in every Roman Catholic school, church leaders have said.
The Catholic bishops of England and Wales also want facilities in schools for Islamic pre-prayer washing rituals.
The demands go way beyond legal requirements on catering for religious minorities.
But the bishops - who acknowledge 30 per cent of pupils at their schools hold a non-Christian faith - want to answer critics who say religious schools sow division.
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The Islamic cleansing ritual, called 'Wudhu', is carried out by Muslims before they pray.
Islam teaches that Muslims are unfit for prayer if they have not performed Wudhu after breaking wind or using the toilet.
Wudhu involves washing the face, hands, arms and feet three times each, gargling the mouth three times and washing the neck and inside the nose and ears. Some Muslims also wash their private parts.
Catholic schools would need to install bidets, foot spas and hoses to facilitate such extensive cleansing rituals, Muslims say.
Look, I'm Jewish and I'm outraged. Weak-kneed Westerners seem to believe that these kind of concessions calm the roiling waters of religious-based conflict, soothe the battered and bruised psyches of oppressed members of minority groups.
As the Brits say, bollocks!
The Mullahs must be howling, certain this is a joke played on them by the infidel crusaders.
They're right, you know, but the joke is on us.
Posted by Mike Lief at December 4, 2008 07:23 AM
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Ok- now WHY the hell would they want to do that for? Isn't part of the point of having your own faith having your OWN traditions that go with it? I don't get it...It's got to be a joke..
Posted by: Triangle Rent A Car at December 4, 2008 04:47 PM
Mike, why in the hell would you think that the Catholics would be the gatekeepers on this issue?
How many priests did they "reassign" and how many records did they purge while their own were molesting altar boys at a record pace? The only person these days envious of the Catholic Church's approval rating is George W. Bush.
Next thing you know they will be taking down the crucifexes so as not to offend the atheists at the schools.
As a graduate of a Catholic High School, I am sickened but not surprised. At least I wasn't an altar boy.
Posted by: RW at December 6, 2008 11:08 PM