Orlando International Airport To Open On-Site Mosque

by JASmius



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You won’t believe this one. A public airport in the United States spending $250,000 to open a prayer room for Muslims? Orlando International Airport is doing just that, and it’s scheduled to open September 1! Let’s call this what it is—a mosque. The airport already had an interfaith prayer room since 1983 (with prayer rugs available in it)—but that wasn’t enough. How loud do you think the objections would be today if they spent $250,000 in taxpayer money to build a new prayer room exclusively for evangelical Christians? Or for Jews or Mormons or any other group? Why do Muslims get preference?

Orlando airport unveils $250K Muslim prayer room

The Orlando International Airport will soon be opening a Muslim prayer room.

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The airport tried to spin it in customer relations terms....:

Carolyn Fennell, the airport's public affairs director, said the "Reflection Room" will give Muslims a more suitable place to pray "so they aren’t having to, if it is the case, kneel on the bathroom floors or in corners so they have the reflective time," according to the Washington Times.

....but this new "Reflection Room" is being created in direct proximity to the inauguration of direct flights from Orlando to Dubai.  Something that seems like it's highly unlikely to be coincidental.  And, by the way, according to Miami's NBC affiliate, this Muslim shrine that OIA is flailingly insisting is an "open space for all passengers" will sport a place for pre-prayer washing, shoe racks and signs that point the directions north, south, east, or west, so that the Muslims using the room can face Mecca when saying their prayers.  But other than that it's COMPLETELY NON-DENOMINATIONAL.

Aaaaaaand if you've got a problem with that, than you're an Islamophobe.

But display a cross anywhere on the premises outside of a trash can and the gates of hell itself would descend upon them.

Exit question: Care to speculate on what TSA security waivers OIA has obtained for their Dubai flights?