TN lawmakers confuse mop sink for Muslim foot-washing sink

Wingnuts • March 2013 • Views: 1,998

You can’t make this shit up:

Building managers and legislative staffers have sought to reassure some concerned Tennessee lawmakers that recent renovations at the state Capitol did not install special facilities for Muslims to wash their feet before praying.

“I confirmed with the facility administrator for the State Capitol Complex that the floor-level sink installed in the men’s restroom outside the House Chamber is for housekeeping use,” Legislative Administration Director Connie Ridley wrote in an email. “It is, in layman’s terms, a mop sink.”

tennessean.com

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14 comments

kerFuFFler Tue, Mar 26, 2013 7:10:42am

My sister moved to Tennessee a couple years back and is appalled by the level of ignorance and hatred constantly on display there. One of her neighbor’s only hobby seems to be sitting on his porch with his gun on his lap, glaring at passersby, hoping for something to give him an excuse to shoot someone. Assuming that a mop sink is evidence of the imposition of sharia law seems just like what you could expect from some cretin looking to be outraged by something.

Dr. Matt Tue, Mar 26, 2013 7:23:25am

It’s only a matter of time before Louie Gohmert or Batshit Crazy Bachmann introduces a law to ban mop sinks.

dragonath Tue, Mar 26, 2013 7:27:52am

I’ve probably mentioned this here, but I was absolutely shocked to find a 9/11 memorial, towers flaming, in the middle of one of the more evangelical towns in the state. Considering how many Republicans think Obama is a Muslim, they probably think it is his fault, somehow.

Since I live pretty close to NYC, it’s pretty strange that anyone would want to be put up a enduring monument graphically depicting what most people in the area tried to get over years ago.

dragonath Tue, Mar 26, 2013 7:38:07am

Reminded me why I pretty much dropped out of church after the attacks, although I imagine the smug cultural superiority and holy war connotations probably took a stronger form down there.

A goddam mop sink. What’s next… a hot air dryer is a Zoroastrian fire temple?

calochortus Tue, Mar 26, 2013 8:29:53am

re: #3 dragonath

I’ve probably mentioned this here, but I was absolutely shocked to find a 9/11 memorial, towers flaming, in the middle of one of the more evangelical towns in the state. Considering how many Republicans think Obama is a Muslim, they probably think it is his fault, somehow.

Since I live pretty close to NYC, it’s pretty strange that anyone would want to be put up a enduring monument graphically depicting what most people in the area tried to get over years ago.

That’s just the point-they don’t want to get over it-and they don’t want anyone else to get over it either.

Keep outrage alive!

Blue Point Tue, Mar 26, 2013 8:58:51am

“Sought to reassure some concerned Lawmakers”? How reassuring that these twits are anywhere near where they make laws.
“Seems to be a device that strongly resembles a Muslim foot bath, although I could fall over a Muslim foot bath and not know it, but this looks suspicious enough that an investigation was headed up by Gump, our “On the floor” man and he reassures us that it is not a Creeping Form Of Sharia crawling up our collective paranoid asses, but a new fancy dangled mop bucket. Democracy is safe, now let’s get back to fucking it up.”

JRCMYP Tue, Mar 26, 2013 9:01:31am

I wonder what they’d do if a bidet showed up in the public bathrooms? Clean their muskets because the French are invading?

Tiny alien kittens are watching you Tue, Mar 26, 2013 9:13:21am

How do you get to adulthood without knowing what a mop sink is? Sure, maybe somehow you might not have ever used one, but never to have even seen one and be able to recognize it? Very definitely a strong clue that these guys were all born with a silver spoon in their mouths, never served in the military, and never held a job that involved any kind of physical labor.

Blue Point Tue, Mar 26, 2013 10:15:03am

re: #8 Tiny alien kittens are watching you

I know if I walked in that mens room the first thing I’d think is “Muslims”. / Very revealing. Now hand one of these diaper wearing paranoid douche nozzles a ball peen hammer and ask him just what it is called.

CuriousLurker Tue, Mar 26, 2013 10:45:07am

It’s typical wingnut BS. The Tenessee Legislature passed bills in the House (HB 2658) and Senate (SB 2641) in 2012, with the former being signed into law by Gov. Bill Haslam exactly one year ago today (PDF), which specifically allows the Ten Commandments and other “historically significant documents” to be placed in public buildings. IOW, they basically made an end run around the First Amendment by claiming it’s not about religion, it’s about history.

Previously, schools that displayed them had been forced to remove them, but now they’ve put them back. Of course, they also hang up copies of other “historical” documents next to them, as if that’s fooling anyone. I’ll give you three guesses—the first two don’t count—as to what would happen if someone proposed displaying a document or monument related to atheism or a non-Christian religion that’s also:

“…recognized to commemorate freedom and the rich history of Tennessee and the United States of America”

And then they freak out over a mop sink.

Velvet Elvis Tue, Mar 26, 2013 1:04:09pm

Some followup from the local alt-newsweekly

nashvillescene.com

docproto48 Tue, Mar 26, 2013 3:25:08pm

why explain let the dumbasses choke on it

Single-handed sailor Tue, Mar 26, 2013 10:42:47pm

I was amazed that they don’t see the problem with a water splash area less than two feet from an electrical panel.

Shiplord Kirel Wed, Mar 27, 2013 10:28:14am

These are probably the same affluent but ignorant types who are buying up all the .22LR ammunition in the belief that Obama is going to ban it and start confiscating Crickett rifles.

Rich and stupid is more common than a lot of folks would suppose. It is no way to go through life. Throughout history, these have been the people who were most surprised when the ungrateful peasants rose up and ran them through with pitchforks.

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