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To: goldworldnet who wrote (764598)	8/29/2007 7:22:49 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769669

I guess they think Islam is a cult so it's ok.

To: goldworldnet who wrote (764598)	8/29/2007 7:43:36 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769669

"Doesn't that constitute some kind of religious endorsement?" That's what the ACLU was looking at.... The University though claimed that it was merely for insurance reasons (safety reasons). As the one major University with the largest percentage of Islamic students in the nation, they said that lots of students were washing their feet in the sinks in the bathrooms (obviously, while standing up on one foot...) and that this was splashing a lot of water on the bathroom floors making for a slippery, unsafe situation (there had been falls...), and that a number of the sinks had occasionally become detached from the walls, costing a lot of money to fix, etc. (The University claimed it was just a reasonable thing to do, from a financial and safety point of view. Just one lawsuit from some student coming into a bathroom, slipping and cracking their head, might have made the foot basins seem cheap in retrospect.) Don't know if the question has been decided... but I believe that the local ACLU said something like: 'well... if EVERYONE gets to use 'em' [washing baby's butts, cleaning your shoes, what-have-you], with no religious distinctions being made at all, that they wouldn't have an opinion either way. And --- contrary to what shorty said, (who must not get out much), when he said no 'lib papers' covered the issue... I believe it was written about in most every big newspaper, and all over the Web. (I, at least, recall seeing it in a half dozen big papers, anyway). (My own take on the issue is that - while the 'safety issue' of wet floors cuts some 'ice' with me <g>, the school might have been better off paying for such stuff from private donations.)