Sharia Law and Footwashing
I take comfort in knowing that there are crazy paranoid ignorant folks in foreign states so that occasionally Texas doesn’t stand out at Dumb Day.
Tennessee is doing it’s part. They just remodeled the state capitol and some Tennessee lawmakers were outraged, just outraged, that there was a Muslim footwashing sink, for Muslims to wash their feet before prayers, installed in a closet of the Tennessee state capitol.
Look at it!
Yeah, it’s a mop sink. It’s where janitors fill the mop buckets.
(Heavy sigh.) I wanted to tell them that it’s a gay baptismal font.
But thanks anyway, Tennessee for making Texas look less crazy on the Republican scale. By the way, we could loan you Ted Cruz to find communist in your capitol. He’s real good at that.
Thanks to Stephen for the heads up.
Tennessee lawmakers – proving they know as much about the working class as they do about Islam.
1Are you sure it’s not a Tennessee urinal?
2Now there’s an issue Republicans can get behind: terrorist sinks!
3Hey, we’re also REAL PROUD of our Don’t Say Gay laws……..
4We’re just trying to make TEXAS work HARD for it’s STUPID REPUBLICANS IN POLITICS award……..
I wonder if they do anything important in that state?
5Off to the side of the story was a headline that Tennessee is losing the war on Meth. (And that’s not Methodists.)
Obviously none of them have ever mopped a floor in a real job.
6Sigh…
7And then there’s this: http://www.roaneviews.com/?q=node/8589
8Corinne Sabo asked, “are you sure it’s not a Tennessee urinal?”
I think that’s what we call a “sink.”
9They don’t need no edewkayshun….
10Perhaps it’s a bird bath?
11We’ll trade Cruz and a side of ribs from Kreuz Market.
12All I can say is….Jesus.
13My son & D-in-L have one of those in their house. Little did I know it was to wash feet. I thought it was to shampoo the dog. Of course, silly me, why would Tennessee legislators need to wash their dogs at the State Capitol Building?
14Don’t tell them the Catholics wash feet every Easter…their heads will explode! (The new pope is going to a juvie in Italy to wash feet this Easter.)
15God knows what they would make of a bidet.
16Ignorance is not bliss in Tennessee. It is mixed with paranoia that Muslims have a conspiracy to convert them to Sharia law. It doesn’t take much to convince them that a mop sink in the Tennessee capital building is solid proof.
17Water, that close to a breaker box, is not a good idea.
18ROFLMAO! I didn’t see this until this morning and I almost strangled on my coffee.
You seriously can’t make this stuff up!
19I myself have washed my feet in something quite similar. However, I was at the beach.
20Well, of course this idiocy is from the state rep in Murfreesboro – @BillKetron is a complete moron who regularly wastes time and money fighting “Sharia” wherever he imagines it – fortunately, the state judge told them to take their paranoia elsewhere when he let the “Murfreesboro Mosque” open (it had been there 30 years in a smaller building).
But HEY, they tossed @StaceyCampfield (Bagger-Idiotville) “Don’t Say Gay” again~things will really be looking up if whiny wimpy oilrichboy Guv actually expands TennCare (Medicaid) today~progress, very slow in Evangelibaggerland.
21I thought it was where Republicans got their high colonics to wash their heads out of their butts.
22Anything to get rid of Cruz, could the good people in Texas ask him to do a special assignment – to count the number of footwashers that have been installed in the country as a result of Sharia law?
23Honestly Cruz is an awful individual and he has to go!
Come on! That is obviously a shower stall for leprechauns! But you Texans can relax…Arizona is working hard to come in second behind Tennessee in the Stupid Olympics.
24The concern about sharia law always amuses me. I am a lawyer and I am not aware of anyone attempting to impose sharia law anywhere.
25You’d think those Super Deluxe Christians would be in favor of foot washing
26Perhaps we should just all be pleased that some of those Republicans who come out of the woodwork to run for office will have a place to clean up, prior to being in public.
I sometimes do not know how my wonderful Muslim friends handle crap like this.
27Naw, y’all. It’s a footbath, all right, but for *dinosaurs*! Cuz they’ve been out stomping around, leaving feetprints what will turn into fossils to confuse people and prove Revolution! Or something! Something like that, the sneaky little dratsabs. Anyway, muddy! Foot baths! Makes perfect sense.
28I hate to break it to everybody, but some Texans get the Stupid honestly. Stephen Austin, who was born & raised in my neck of the woods here in southwestern Virginia, gathered up a lot of the Old One Hundred in Tennessee (think Davy Crockett) as he moseyed on down to take advantage of that “free land” Santa Anna was handing out to the suckers…er, I mean settlers…in what would become the buffer zone between the Mexicans and the cattle-rustling, scalp-stealing Comanche. Fortunately, some of us descendants wised up.
29The protesting legislators didn’t get the memo. This was installed in case they need an enema.
30Lawmakers ought to be more concerned about having the basin located two feet from that breaker panel.
31Not too likely, Charly, unless some bright legislator can be convinced to stand barefoot in the wet mop sink, reach over to the electrical cabinet, unlock the door and fiddle around with the live voltage gear inside. This doesn’t look any more dangerous than typical electrical and plumbing installations in an average business or home, unless someone succeeds in flooding the whole floor with water high enough to where it would seep into the electrical box. If properly installed internally and grounded, this looks to me like it meets code. Some people of particular religions might suggest that individuals of certain other faiths serve as guinea pigs.
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