DFW Airport Cancels Muslim Foot-Washing Stations in Stunning Development After TX Gov. Stance
Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) is under an immense amount of heat in the Lone Star State. And no, we’re not talking about the daily 100-degree temps.
Texans are fed up at the endless stream of foreigners coming into the state. It is against this backdrop that the fuse was lit about a seemingly innocuous story: Muslim foot-washing facilities at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport.
In a Friday press release, Abbott took an unusually strong stance against the proposed Muslim foot-washing facility at the airport, declaring it “illegal.”
Governor Greg Abbott today directed a review of all state grants to entities that operate airports in Texas, including Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) and George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH), for possible revocation of active state grant funds and the denial of any future grants due to illegal religious discrimination at government-owned facilities. He also referred DFW and IAH to the U.S. Department of Transportation for investigation and enforcement.
DFW plans to install ablution facilities for Islamic washing rituals. IAH has already installed one such facility and an interconnecting prayer room.
In a letter to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, Governor Abbott requested that the U.S. Department of Transportation and Federal Aviation Administration immediately review the religious facilities and accommodations at DFW and IAH and take appropriate corrective action. The airports are recipients of federal funds and subject to conditions that require full compliance with laws prohibiting religious discrimination.
“These ablution facilities appear designed to single out one subset of the population for special treatment based on religion. That is illegal,” Abbott added. “Both airports are government-owned facilities. The federal and state constitutions prohibit government from facilitating this sort of discrimination. Just as the government cannot favor the secular over the sacred, it also cannot favor one religious view over all others.”
It turns out, Governor Abbott’s statement worked. In an update on Friday night, Dallas-Fort Worth airport told Fox News that it was not proceeding with the plan.
“DFW was in the process of evaluating an internal proposal to add a set of ablution washing stations on the pre-security side of Terminal D, the international terminal. Like all proposed projects, the airport ultimately considers the operational benefits, customer service impacts, operational risks and costs before approving them,” the airport said.
“While that evaluation was planned, the airport accelerated its review due to elevated public interest this week and has determined not to proceed with the project as it would not deliver the originally anticipated operational benefits.”
This is exactly the kind of issue that Governor Abbott is an expert at pouncing on. It’s like his team monitors social media outrage to identify the hot button issues, and then seeks to throw Texans a bone so that we will stop with all of our annoying objections to his culturally destructive policies.
Texas residents are also flipping out over the nonstop H1B visa holders flooding into the state, turning the Dallas metro area into New Delhi West.
American citizens are also experiencing a problem with all of the foreigners coming to Texas: Many of them refuse to assimilate.
This isn’t baseless speculation, it is something I verify daily with my own eyes and ears. In a few short years, I have seen Frisco, Plano, and McKinney transformed before my very eyes. It is nearly unrecognizable and barely even feels like “Texas.” I attended a graduation ceremony in Frisco where the vast majority of names announced were for Asian-American students.
Texas residents are furious, let me tell you. And they aren’t nearly as mad at the Democrats as they are at the Republicans who are selling Texans out. Everybody knows that Democrats are worthless. People expect better from Republicans, especially in a deep red state.
Enter Greg Abbott. He is undoubtedly a skilled politician. Abbott is a master fundraiser and may even be more adept at pulling the wool over Texans’ eyes.
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Take the H1B visa crisis. When Texans started raising their voices about the foreign workers overrunning the state, his solution was to “pause” H1Bs to hold a “review.”
Not in the private sector, mind you, which is the main problem. He froze them in the state government agencies and the publicly funded university system.
That is a sliver of the problem. There are only about 3,300–3,500 H1B visa holders in the public sector in Texas. Meanwhile, there are at least 41,000 H1B visa recipients.
Thus, a Wudu ablution station is not a Wudu ablution station. It is symptomatic of America’s refusal to make foreigners assimilate. Instead, foreigners are imposing their culture on America.
Lest anyone think this is a complaint without a solution, here is one: Don’t wash your feet in the sinks. That’s nasty. And it’s also messy because it gets water all over. Last time I checked, that is a slipping hazard.
But if you think this is about wet bathrooms, you are missing the point. It is 100 percent about cultural assimilation.
So, if foreigners want to come to America, that is fine. But they cannot come here seeking to change our free country into an unfree one. That is not tolerance, that is national suicide.
It is time that Americans draw the line on the slow creep of Islamist culture. Maybe Wudu foot stations were just the wake-up call that Texans needed.
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