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kittykitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-10 10:31 PM
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NY Times Muslim prayer room on the 17th floor of the south tower.
Sometime in 1999, a construction electrician received a new work assignment from his union. The man, Sinclair Hejazi Abdus-Salaam, was told to report to 2 World Trade Center, the southern of the twin towers.

In the union locker room on the 51st floor, Mr. Abdus-Salaam went through a construction worker’s version of due diligence. In the case of an emergency in the building, he asked his foreman and crew, where was he supposed to reassemble? The answer was the corner of Broadway and Vesey.

Over the next few days, noticing some fellow Muslims on the job, Mr. Abdus-Salaam voiced an equally essential question: “So where do you pray at?” And so he learned about the Muslim prayer room on the 17th floor of the south tower.

He went there regularly in the months to come, first doing the ablution known as wudu in a washroom fitted for cleansing hands, face and feet, and then facing toward Mecca to intone the salat prayer.

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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-10 10:33 PM
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1. k&r
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ZombieHorde Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-10 10:53 PM
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2. I have some friends in Portland who "pray" four times per day.
They call it http://www.sacred-texts.com/oto/lib200.htm">Resh. I have seem them do it right on the sidewalk. It's pretty funny.
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-10 11:49 PM
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3. Better not tell the Republicans. nt
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Matariki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-10 03:32 AM
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5. And Tahuti Standeth in His Suspenders at The Prow
On the sidewalk? That is funny. Dedicated, but funny.
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ZombieHorde Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-10 01:22 PM
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8. "Tahuti Standeth in His Suspenders" = hilarious. I will have to remember
that one for the next time I find myself in Portland.
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Roon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-10 03:48 AM
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6. i drive cab sometimes and some of the guys pray four times a day
right there in the break area at the terminal.
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-10 12:45 AM
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4. K&R n/t
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nc4bo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-10 06:10 AM
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7. Who'd have thought? Shocking!
:sarcasm:

Stupid hypocritical, knuckledraggin, anti-Christian, hate-filled asshats - read it!

Love being able to simply click a few mouse clicks to have articles posted to my FB page.



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stray cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-11-10 08:21 PM
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9. The terrorists destroyed Islamic holy sites and murdered devout muslims
Edited on Sat Sep-11-10 08:24 PM by stray cat
If they are innocent they we ill go to paradise if they re apostate they deserved to die - that is the logic employed
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