Latest Anti-Muslim Political Stunt by Texas Governo

 

CAIR-TX Calls Governor Abbott’s Comparison of Airport Prayer Facilities to “White-Only Bathrooms” Offensive, Inaccurate, and Latest Anti-Muslim Political Stunt The Texas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-TX) today condemned a post by Governor Greg Abbott’s press office comparing Islamic ablution, or wudu, facilities at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) and George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) to segregation-era “White-only bathrooms.”    The post, published by the Governor Abbott Press Office account, claimed the airports “finance, maintain, advertise, and operate Muslim-only spaces” and stated that “Airports can no more offer Muslim-only bathroom spaces than they can maintain White-only bathrooms.”   SEE: Governor Abbott Refers Discriminatory Airport Religious Facilities to DOJ   In a statement, CAIR-Texas said:   “Comparing a washing station that any travelers can use regardless of their faith to whites-only bathrooms is a grotesque distortion of one of the darkest chapters in American history. Segregation was designed to exclude. These facilities were designed to include. Nobody is turned away.   “These are not ‘Muslim-only’ spaces any more than a nursing room or an interfaith prayer room is ‘Christian-only’ or ‘mothers-only.’ They are accommodations, open to any traveler, that happen to be used mostly by the Muslim community. That is not discrimination. That is what accessible public infrastructure looks like.   “Governor Abbott has spent the better part of a year using the machinery of state government — the Attorney General’s office, state agencies, and now a direct referral to the federal government — against Texas Muslims’ everyday religious practice. A sink is not a civil rights violation. Weaponizing the Department of Justice against Muslim Texans for washing their feet before prayer is.   “Instead of wasting taxpayer resources on this latest anti-Muslim political stunt, Governor Abbott should focus on our state’s real problems under his leadership, from harmful data centers to school shootings to economic inequality to the erosion of religious freedom.” , Inaccurate, and Latest Anti-Muslim Political Stunt

The Texas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-TX) today condemned a post by Governor Greg Abbott’s press office comparing Islamic ablution, or wudu, facilities at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) and George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) to segregation-era “White-only bathrooms.”    The post, published by the Governor Abbott Press Office account, claimed the airports “finance, maintain, advertise, and operate Muslim-only spaces” and stated that “Airports can no more offer Muslim-only bathroom spaces than they can maintain White-only bathrooms.”   SEE: Governor Abbott Refers Discriminatory Airport Religious Facilities to DOJ   In a statement, CAIR-Texas said:   “Comparing a washing station that any travelers can use regardless of their faith to whites-only bathrooms is a grotesque distortion of one of the darkest chapters in American history. Segregation was designed to exclude. These facilities were designed to include. Nobody is turned away.   “These are not ‘Muslim-only’ spaces any more than a nursing room or an interfaith prayer room is ‘Christian-only’ or ‘mothers-only.’ They are accommodations, open to any traveler, that happen to be used mostly by the Muslim community. That is not discrimination. That is what accessible public infrastructure looks like.   “Governor Abbott has spent the better part of a year using the machinery of state government — the Attorney General’s office, state agencies, and now a direct referral to the federal government — against Texas Muslims’ everyday religious practice. A sink is not a civil rights violation. Weaponizing the Department of Justice against Muslim Texans for washing their feet before prayer is.   “Instead of wasting taxpayer resources on this latest anti-Muslim political stunt, Governor Abbott should focus on our state’s real problems under his leadership, from harmful data centers to school shootings to economic inequality to the erosion of religious freedom.”