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Assalamualaikum,
Lihat bagaimana sebuah college di luar negara willingly provide facilities for
Muslim students to take wudhu'.
Does it happen here in our beloved country Malaysia...
Wassalam.
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College puts in footbaths for Muslims
October 5, 1999
BY ABDON M. PALLASCH SUBURBAN REPORTER
Students at Harper Community College in Palatine returned to school this
fall to find a new addition to the bathrooms at the student center:
footbaths for Muslim students to wash their feet before their five daily
prayers.
Officials at the public college said Monday that they decided on their own
to install the footbaths as a matter of health and safety. They didn't want
students washing their feet in the sinks or toilets.
Now some students are questioning whether public money--about $1,500 to
$2,000, according to the school--should have been spent for what they see
as a religious purpose.
"Since everybody had to pay for it, and not everybody is going to use it,
that is the thing I think is annoying," Harper student Josh Leach said Monday.
"I think it should have been discussed with students and more people before
it was done," said Student Senate President Desmond Lane, a 20-year-old
sophomore, echoing comments in the student newspaper, the Harbinger.
"Putting something in for just one religion, you kind of alienate the other
groups."
College officials approached the Muslim Students Association last year and
offered to build the footbaths.
"We happened to be renovating the bathrooms," said Joan Kindle, Harper's
vice president for student affairs. "Anybody can use them. It doesn't say,
`For Muslims only.' "
In planning the renovations, physical plant director Bob Getz included the
low-to-the-ground sinks that can serve as footbaths during the day and
which custodians use to dump mop water during the overnight shift.
"Our custodians would walk in and see [students] with one foot on the
ground and one foot on the facial sink," Getz said. "It was kind of a
dangerous situation."
Charles Brown, faculty adviser to the Muslim Students Association, said
students in the group were grateful. He said the group had about 15 to 20
members last year. It has not yet organized for the new school year.
Despite some objections, other students support the move. "It was a
pioneering idea," said Vincent Guerra, a sophomore. Jane M. Whicher, a
lawyer with the American Civil Liberties Union, said "it didn't raise an
immediate concern."
Islam teaches that people should be clean before they pray five times a
day, said Abdul Hameed Dogar, director of the Islamic Foundation of Villa
Park.
"You should be clean, your clothes should be clean, the ground should be
clean where you kneel," Dogar said. "If people in the morning wash
themselves and put on socks while still clean, then cleaning [of feet] is
not obligated."
Copyright(c) 1999 The Sun-Times Company.
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