Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Takes Aim at Muslim Washing Stations in Airports

Texas Governor Greg Abbott Targets Muslim Washing Stations At Major State Airports

Texas Governor Greg Abbott has escalated a fight over religious accommodation at two of the state’s largest airports, targeting Islamic ritual washing stations used by Muslim travelers for daily prayers. For years, travelers passing through Texas’s two biggest airports have had access to small washing stations for wudu, an Islamic ritual of purification in which Muslims clean their hands, arms, head, and feet before the five daily prayers. A doc…

Greg Abbott Grasps At Anything to Stir Up Anti-Islam Panic for His Reelection

Abbott’s Only Campaign Strategy For over two years now, the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Texas has had facilities to accommodate the Muslim wudu ritual of washing hands, feet and face ahead of daily prayers. But Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is, just now, very concerned about it.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott takes aim at Muslim washing stations in airports

Legal experts dispute Abbott’s claims that the ritual washing stations are discriminatory, with some saying his attack fits a pattern of anti-Muslim actions and rhetoric.

Project to install Islamic washing station at airports draws ire of Texas governor

(JNS) — Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott is ordering a review of state grants to the operators of major airports in Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth in the wake of an abandoned proposal to install Islamic washing machines. Abbott wrote on Friday that the state will look at the possible revocation of grants and denial of future funding to entities operating Dallas Fort Worth International Airport and...