I wash my penis with coffee. It keeps him perky!

Hello, neighbor.

Well, then where are they supposed to do it? In the arrivals hall?

American pilot is culturally ignorant meets religious people engage in nonsensical rituals. USA USA!

Damn subby, the article is not that long, try reading the whole thing.

To be fair, Muzzies have private parts that nobody else considers private. Like elbows, and that part between your shoulder blades that you can never reach when it itches.

ITS MY SOAP AND I WILL WASH IT AS MUCH AS I WANT TO!!!!!!

Why?

FTFA: Muhammad Musri, president of the Islamic Society of Central Florida, said devout Muslims customarily clean their private parts with water after using the restroom, and that is likely what members of the group were doing. The procedure is known as istinja.

If this is your custom, then why go into the bathroom without a cup in the first place? Did you forget you were Muslim for a minute or something?

Wouldn't baby wipes be a little more convenient?

3 Muslims 1 cup

I would suggest that the Muslim in question show a little cultural sensitivity on his (?) part and wash his junk in a stall instead of the sink in the interest of privacy, but apart from that I don't see a real problem.

Call me kooky, but the bathroom was on the plane.

/reading is FUNdamental
//weeps for the children

Istinja is not a ritual. It's just a form cleaning your @ss with water after you take a dump. It's cleaner than just wiping it with toilet paper. More hygienic too..

Deedidodum: Istinja is not a ritual. It's just a form cleaning your @ss with water after you take a dump. It's cleaner than just wiping it with toilet paper. More hygienic too..

I don't think it's the "cleaning your @ss with water after you take a dump" that's a ritual, isn't it the act of pouring water and scraping with the left hand every time because it's religiously mandated that makes it a ritual?

"We are continuing this policy in bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy. Allah willing, and nothing is too great for Allah," bin Laden said in the transcript.

Every dollar of al Qaeda defeated a million dollars, by the permission of Allah, besides the loss of a huge number of jobs," he said. "As for the economic deficit, it has reached record astronomical numbers estimated to total more than a trillion dollars.

Osama bin Laden: 1
America: 0

// Guy's been dead over a year
// And he's still punk'n us daily
// Why are such Pynk B*tches?

But which foot left the restroom first?

Link

There will be a test.

Who cares why someone wants a cup to take into the bathroom?

If they were really terrorists, they could have easily put a cup in their take on luggage.

octopied: Who cares why someone wants a cup to take into the bathroom?

If they were really terrorists, they could have easily put a cup in their take on luggage.

Maybe they were terrorists with really poor planning skills.

It's a two-and-a-half hour flight. Do a group of people really need to hang around in the back of a plane ritually cleaning their crotches?

Are they so self-unaware in 2012 that they can't imagine why this might seem strange?

There's a lot of room for accommodating religious and cultural traditions in an open society, but at some level you gotta keep your weirdness to yourself. It's enough already.

Hanging around in the back of a plane so you can take turns washing your junk with your bare hands is, IMO, over that line.

I was gonna come in here with some cultural sensitivity stuff, but KWess makes a really good point. How dirty can their junk be? It'll keep, Monk. Sit down and wait for the hotel.

It seems that paper is allowed.....along with rocks....(but using scissors goes way over the line).

It is obligatory to make istinja' from every wet material emitted from the eliminatory outlets, like urine or feces.

Istinja' is performed using pure and purifying water or a solid, dry, uprooting and unrespectable material, like a stone or paper.

Performing istinja' by water: When cleaning oneself from feces one pours the water on the outlet and rubs with one's left hand until the najas-filth is removed. This makes the place tahir.

Performing istinja' using rocks and the like (paper): If one makes instinja' using a solid, dry, uprooting, pure, unrespectable material, such as a rock (or paper), one wipes the outlet three times. If the three wipes are not enough to clean the area, one wipes more until the place becomes clean. One may use three wads of tissue or the like. Without using water, it is not enough to wipe less than thrice, even if the place becomes clean

If they had provided this announcement upon entering the lavatory with the cup, the misunderstanding would have been averted.

Haha.. Savages.

Deedidodum: Istinja is not a ritual. It's just a form cleaning your @ss with water after you take a dump. It's cleaner than just wiping it with toilet paper. More hygienic too..

Redd Foxx approves. (NSFW language)

So now you're as gross in public as the homegrown citizens. Congratulations on assimilating yourself into the culture.

SundaesChild: Wouldn't baby wipes be a little more convenient?

Right, like you're going to fool God with a little baby wipe. Nice try, nonbeliever.

kokomo61: It seems that paper is allowed.....along with rocks....(but using scissors goes way over the line).

It is obligatory to make istinja' from every wet material emitted from the eliminatory outlets, like urine or feces.

Istinja' is performed using pure and purifying water or a solid, dry, uprooting and unrespectable material, like a stone or paper.

Performing istinja' by water: When cleaning oneself from feces one pours the water on the outlet and rubs with one's left hand until the najas-filth is removed. This makes the place tahir.

Performing istinja' using rocks and the like (paper): If one makes instinja' using a solid, dry, uprooting, pure, unrespectable material, such as a rock (or paper), one wipes the outlet three times. If the three wipes are not enough to clean the area, one wipes more until the place becomes clean. One may use three wads of tissue or the like. Without using water, it is not enough to wipe less than thrice, even if the place becomes clean

And if that's the case...what's wrong with the tp already in the lavatory?

How about you fark off and let me do my goddamn business in the privacy of the motherfarking bathroom? How's that work for you?

The stewardess said in a later interview, "Okay, okay! It wasn't the cup that freaked me out. It was when he asked for two girls that I flipped."

OK. I'm having trouble with the logistics of this. If you are putting enough water on yourself that you need a cup to do so, where does this water end up? Is he leaving a puddle of "junk water" on the floor? So as not to get it on his clothes, does he disrobe entirely? Is there a towel involved? Airplane bathrooms are small people, I need answers!

Washing one's anus clean after taking a crap is not a religious ritual; it's a traditional custom in much of the world. In toilets in many countries you'll find half plastic bottles and water splashed strangely around the floor. In all fairness many cultures find toilet paper to be a disgusting thing, to be used as we'd use grass or leaves, a nasty last option.

Is it just me, or do Judaism and Islam contain an enormous amount of guidelines covering almost every conceivable waking act, to the point where full compliance with all of them is indistinguishable from obsessive-compulsive disorder?

Airport bathrooms are usually pretty gross, so this is kinda prescient ...

The edited wiki article is comedy gold

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/4 12/57280260.jpg/

Gaah!

whenever Muhammad went to the toilet, he said "In the name of Allah, O Allah! I seek refuge with You from all offensive and wicked things"

Whenever I leave the bathroom, I say a prayer of mercy for those who have to go in later.

It wasn't at the airport, it was on the plane.

Surprised that A) flight crew had never heard of this and B) passengers didn't think it would arouse suspicion.

kokomo61: whenever Muhammad went to the toilet, he said "In the name of Allah, O Allah! I seek refuge with You from all offensive and wicked things"

Whenever I leave the bathroom, I say a prayer of mercy for those who have to go in later.

I've always thought that like choking, or waving hello, there should be an international sign for 'it wasn't me.'

What a bunch of idiots. Once through screening you can buy bottled liquids (such as water!) to take with you on the plane. Or, get a bottle off water from the sky waitress. Or bring a small collapsible cup on the plane with you. These guys should have planned ahead.

FTFA:"They [the airplane crew] didn't understand it, probably," Musri said. "If you didn't know the reason, you'd say, 'Why do you need the cup? Why are you taking it with you into the bathroom?'

KWess: Gaah!

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I still don't know how to use those properly.

Deedidodum: Istinja is not a ritual. It's just a form cleaning your @ss with water after you take a dump. It's cleaner than just wiping it with toilet paper. More hygienic too..

I live in a dorm in a very international university with muslims as my neighboors.

This shiat is extremely disgusting, there's one from Egypt who leaves a mess in the restroom when cleaning, rivers of poo water flow outside the stall to the nearest drain. Its sickening. I've told him several times "after you shiat take a shower instead, don't leave this mess" but he won't.

Any suggestions??

KWess: kokomo61: whenever Muhammad went to the toilet, he said "In the name of Allah, O Allah! I seek refuge with You from all offensive and wicked things"

Whenever I leave the bathroom, I say a prayer of mercy for those who have to go in later.

I've always thought that like choking, or waving hello, there should be an international sign for 'it wasn't me.'

I think this would work (especially with the mask).

Barricaded Gunman: FTFA: Muhammad Musri, president of the Islamic Society of Central Florida, said devout Muslims customarily clean their private parts with water after using the restroom, and that is likely what members of the group were doing. The procedure is known as istinja.

If this is your custom, then why go into the bathroom without a cup in the first place? Did you forget you were Muslim for a minute or something?

The restrooms at masjids usually have a vessel that looks like a watering can for the performance of wadu, the washing of the body before a service, so the Muslims may have assumed there would be something like that already present. One ethnocentric group meets another?

/at least the authorities admitted it was an overreaction

maq0r: Deedidodum: Istinja is not a ritual. It's just a form cleaning your @ss with water after you take a dump. It's cleaner than just wiping it with toilet paper. More hygienic too..

I live in a dorm in a very international university with muslims as my neighboors.

This shiat is extremely disgusting, there's one from Egypt who leaves a mess in the restroom when cleaning, rivers of poo water flow outside the stall to the nearest drain. Its sickening. I've told him several times "after you shiat take a shower instead, don't leave this mess" but he won't.

Any suggestions??

Buy him a box of baby wipes. Works wonders.

If you're going to ask for a cup of water so you may clean your private parts as part of a Muslim ceremony, it's probably best not to do it in the bathroom of the international airport

Wow, subby, they actually took your advice and did it on the plane instead. Nice jorb!

Stranded
Stranded on a toilet bowl
Stranded
Stranded
Stranded on a toilet bowl
What do you do when you're stranded
And there ain't nothing on the roll?
To prove you're a man
You must wipe it with your hand
Stranded
Stranded on a toilet bowl

"I never wash my hands after using a public restroom. Unless something gets on me. Otherwise, I figure I'm as clean as when I walked in. Besides, the sink is usually filthier than I am. I'm convinced that many of the men I see frantically washing up do not do the same thing at home. Americans are obsessed with appearances and have an unhealthy fixation on cleanliness. Relax, boys. It's only your d*ck. If it's so dirty that after handling it you need to wash your hands, you may as well just go ahead and scrub your d*ck while you're at it. Tell the truth. Wouldn't you like to see some guy trying to dry his genitals with one of those forced-air blowing machines that are mounted four feet off the ground?"--George Carlin

I guess they didn't get his joke.