Steve Wareham, director of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, said other airports have "meditation rooms" used for prayers or by passengers who simply need quiet time.
A group of Somali clerics met with airport officials Friday and said they would attract less attention if they had a private area for prayer. Devout Muslims pray five times daily, facing the holy city of Mecca.
"When we pray, we don't want a problem. We don't want what happened last week," said Abdulrehman Hersi, an imam at Darul-Quba mosque in Minneapolis, referring to six clerics who were barred from a US Airways flight in Minneapolis after drawing the concern of some passengers.
Airports in Nashville, Tenn.; Columbus, Ohio; and Fort Lauderdale, Fla., all advertise meditation rooms. Fort Lauderdale's is billed as "For travelers seeking a quiet time." All note they are nonsectarian.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/12/01/D8LOC15O0.html
**BIG BAZOO's take: Just when you think you've heard it all.....Muslims demanding private 'prayer' rooms at airports!!!??...Aaargh!...Why not just set up Al-Queda headquarters at our nation's airports?......Doesn't anyone have the cashews just to say NO!!...Sorry!! No Prayer rooms! Why not equip these rooms with flight simulators and box cutters!...Good grief!airports imams islam mecca mosque somali+clerics al+queda
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This is discusting. This makes me humiliated to be associated with people like you. Just because they are Muslim, doesn't mean they're terrorists. That was by far the most ignorant blog posting i've ever read!
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