At the Indianapolis airport, footbaths have been installed. Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch, in a video at Hot Air, considers the great boon that this will no doubt be to harried travelers:

“Now they have a chance, as the cool water massages their feet, to dream of better things, better days, of moonlit streams where righteous kings paused a moment to compose psalms.”

The bolded portion is a reference to Bob Dylan’s song I And I:

In another lifetime she must have owned the world, or been faithfully wed
To some righteous king who wrote psalms beside moonlit streams.

(H/t to Ronnie; I had somehow missed this.)

Of-course, as Mr. Spencer elucidates, the footbaths aren’t there due to some sudden demand from calloused air passengers. They are there so Muslims can wash their feet in preparation for prayer.

The point, in Mr. Spencer’s words, is just this:

“Accomodation of Muslim demands is the order of the day, and the one certain thing is that we will be seeing plenty more of it.”

By the way, Robert Spencer’s latest book — which I’m in the middle of reading myself, and which I’d highly recommend — is called “Religion of Peace?: Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn’t“

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