In the Muslim religion....there is something called 'Wudu'. It basically means after a hot-dusty walking (in your sandals)....you need to cleans your feet. (Yeah, it is a Jesus-thing, if you think about the tradition).
For about seven years....at the Dallas Airport....they had a couple of foot-washing stations established. No one said much.
Back in July, the Airport went and submitted a proposal....to add two more stations. A men's area, and a women's area.....in the bathroom areas.
This got out, and a discussion started up. Cost factor? $300,000.
Why? Well...across the US....in airports with no foot-washing stations....Arab guys were putting their feet in hand-washing sinks, and creating hazards. Sanitation also came up as a topic.
This selling easily to the public? No.
But I'd go and ask three questions.
First...if this is a practical idea, and Arabs are traveling around the US....wouldn't you have to have a foot-washing station in every airport?
Second, while everyone hints of a Muslim 'thing'.....isn't it mostly true that long before Islam wrote the ten-odd rules for Wudu....weren't older Semitic, Jewish purity laws, and Zoroastrian traditions doing the same thing?
Third, isn't all of this geared toward sandal-people....not folks wearing loafers....which is the typical footwear of 90-percent of Islamic guys not in hot dry environments?
Then I come to this odd thing....there's probably 30-million people to walk through the Dallas Airport since 2019....that never even noticed the foot-washing stations that already existed. Same thing with the tampon-machines in men's bathrooms....most guys never noticing that either. Funny how we travel and never seem to notice crazy stuff?
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