{"id":2301,"date":"2026-08-15T14:07:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T14:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=2301"},"modified":"2026-08-15T14:07:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T14:07:55","slug":"dfw-airport-scraps-islamic-foot-washing-stations-after-governor-threatens-its-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=2301","title":{"rendered":"DFW Airport Scraps Islamic Foot-Washing Stations After Governor Threatens Its Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport has scrapped a proposal to add Islamic foot-washing stations to two Terminal D restrooms, backing off Friday night after Texas Governor Greg Abbott called the plan illegal and opened a review of every state grant flowing to the airport.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=2299\">Multiple People Shot At Virginia State University<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese ablution facilities appear designed to single out one subset of the population for special treatment based on religion. That is illegal,\u201d Abbott  in a letter to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. \u201cBoth airports are government-owned facilities. The federal and state constitutions prohibit governments from facilitating this sort of discrimination. Just as the government cannot favor the secular over the sacred, it also cannot favor one religious view over all others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a separate  to DFW CEO Christopher McLaughlin, Abbott warned that organizations found to have developed or operated what he called exclusionary religious spaces could lose state grant funding and face further enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Abbott referred both DFW and Houston\u2019s George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) to the U.S. Department of Transportation for investigation and enforcement, asking the department and the Federal Aviation Administration to review religious facilities and accommodations at each. He also directed a review of all state grants to the entities operating the two airports for possible revocation and denial of future funding. Abbott\u2019s office said IAH already operates an ablution facility with an adjoining prayer room.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTexas will not allow illegal religious discrimination at taxpayer-funded facilities,\u201d Abbott wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>DFW told Fox News Digital on Friday that it had been weighing an internal proposal to add ablution stations on the pre-security side of Terminal D, its international terminal, and that it weighs operational benefits,\u00a0customer service impacts, operational risks and costs before approving any project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile that evaluation was planned, the airport accelerated its review due to elevated public interest this week and has determined not to proceed with the project as it would not deliver the originally anticipated operational benefits,\u201d the airport said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=2297\">Inside The RNC\u2019s Biggest Convention In A Decade<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The airport did not spell out what those benefits were. Defenders of the proposal, including conservative activist Ryan Fournier, had argued the low-level basins were a maintenance measure \u2014 travelers performing wudu in standard countertop sinks soak restroom floors and damage counters. Wudu is the ritual washing Muslims perform before prayer, covering the hands, face, arms, head and feet.<\/p>\n<p>DFW has offered an ablution station on the post-security side of Terminal D for years. Two were added to the terminal\u2019s Interfaith Chapel during upgrades completed in 2019, alongside shoe storage, kneelers and expanded shelving for holy texts. Similar basins exist at other large U.S. hubs, including Chicago O\u2019Hare.<\/p>\n<p>The project was registered with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation on July 31. The filing listed it as privately funded, put the cost at $300,000 and said construction would be finished by year\u2019s end.<\/p>\n<p>DFW said those details reflected administrative errors by its outside design firm and stressed that the project had never received final approval. A spokesperson said the $300,000 was a preliminary high estimate and that the actual cost, had the project gone forward, would have run closer to $120,000. The Dallas Express reported Friday that the filing had since been revised to $115,000 and reclassified.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was an error and it should have indicated that airport funds would be used to pay for the work like all our projects,\u201d the airport said, adding that it does not use taxpayer dollars for operations and instead relies on revenue from parking and concessions.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=2295\">Trump Turns Beloved Rubio Meme Into Birthday Gift<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport has scrapped a proposal to add Islamic foot-washing stations to two Terminal D restrooms, backing off Friday night after Texas Governor Greg Abbott called the plan illegal and opened a review of every state grant flowing to the airport.\u201cThese ablution facilities appear designed to single out one subset of the population for special treatment based on religion. That is illegal,\u201d Abbott wrote in a letter to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. \u201cBoth airports are government-owned facilities. The federal and state constitutions prohibit governments from facilitating this sort of discrimination. Just as the government cannot favor the secular over the sacred, it also cannot favor one religious view over all others.\u201dIn a separate letter to DFW CEO Christopher McLaughlin, Abbott warned that organizations found to have developed or operated what he called exclusionary religious spaces could lose state grant funding and face further enforcement.Abbott referred both DFW and Houston\u2019s George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) to the U.S. Department of Transportation for investigation and enforcement, asking the department and the Federal Aviation Administration to review religious facilities and accommodations at each. He also directed a review of all state grants to the entities operating the two airports for possible revocation and denial of future funding. Abbott\u2019s office said IAH already operates an ablution facility with an adjoining prayer room.\u201cTexas will not allow illegal religious discrimination at taxpayer-funded facilities,\u201d Abbott wrote on X.DFW told Fox News Digital on Friday that it had been weighing an internal proposal to add ablution stations on the pre-security side of Terminal D, its international terminal, and that it weighs operational benefits,\u00a0customer service impacts, operational risks and costs before approving any project.\u201cWhile that evaluation was planned, the airport accelerated its review due to elevated public interest this week and has determined not to proceed with the project as it would not deliver the originally anticipated operational benefits,\u201d the airport said.The airport did not spell out what those benefits were. Defenders of the proposal, including conservative activist Ryan Fournier, had argued the low-level basins were a maintenance measure \u2014 travelers performing wudu in standard countertop sinks soak restroom floors and damage counters. Wudu is the ritual washing Muslims perform before prayer, covering the hands, face, arms, head and feet.DFW has offered an ablution station on the post-security side of Terminal D for years. Two were added to the terminal\u2019s Interfaith Chapel during upgrades completed in 2019, alongside shoe storage, kneelers and expanded shelving for holy texts. Similar basins exist at other large U.S. hubs, including Chicago O\u2019Hare.The project was registered with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation on July 31. The filing listed it as privately funded, put the cost at $300,000 and said construction would be finished by year\u2019s end.DFW said those details reflected administrative errors by its outside design firm and stressed that the project had never received final approval. A spokesperson said the $300,000 was a preliminary high estimate and that the actual cost, had the project gone forward, would have run closer to $120,000. The Dallas Express reported Friday that the filing had since been revised to $115,000 and reclassified.\u201cThat was an error and it should have indicated that airport funds would be used to pay for the work like all our projects,\u201d the airport said, adding that it does not use taxpayer dollars for operations and instead relies on revenue from parking and concessions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>DFW Airport Scraps Islamic Foot-Washing Stations After Governor Threatens Its Funding - Blue Route Journal<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=2301\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"DFW Airport Scraps Islamic Foot-Washing Stations After Governor Threatens Its Funding - Blue Route Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport has scrapped a proposal to add Islamic foot-washing stations to two Terminal D restrooms, backing off Friday night after Texas Governor Greg Abbott called the plan illegal and opened a review of every state grant flowing to the airport.\u201cThese ablution facilities appear designed to single out one subset of the population for special treatment based on religion. That is illegal,\u201d Abbott wrote in a letter to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. \u201cBoth airports are government-owned facilities. The federal and state constitutions prohibit governments from facilitating this sort of discrimination. Just as the government cannot favor the secular over the sacred, it also cannot favor one religious view over all others.\u201dIn a separate letter to DFW CEO Christopher McLaughlin, Abbott warned that organizations found to have developed or operated what he called exclusionary religious spaces could lose state grant funding and face further enforcement.Abbott referred both DFW and Houston\u2019s George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) to the U.S. Department of Transportation for investigation and enforcement, asking the department and the Federal Aviation Administration to review religious facilities and accommodations at each. He also directed a review of all state grants to the entities operating the two airports for possible revocation and denial of future funding. Abbott\u2019s office said IAH already operates an ablution facility with an adjoining prayer room.\u201cTexas will not allow illegal religious discrimination at taxpayer-funded facilities,\u201d Abbott wrote on X.DFW told Fox News Digital on Friday that it had been weighing an internal proposal to add ablution stations on the pre-security side of Terminal D, its international terminal, and that it weighs operational benefits,\u00a0customer service impacts, operational risks and costs before approving any project.\u201cWhile that evaluation was planned, the airport accelerated its review due to elevated public interest this week and has determined not to proceed with the project as it would not deliver the originally anticipated operational benefits,\u201d the airport said.The airport did not spell out what those benefits were. Defenders of the proposal, including conservative activist Ryan Fournier, had argued the low-level basins were a maintenance measure \u2014 travelers performing wudu in standard countertop sinks soak restroom floors and damage counters. Wudu is the ritual washing Muslims perform before prayer, covering the hands, face, arms, head and feet.DFW has offered an ablution station on the post-security side of Terminal D for years. Two were added to the terminal\u2019s Interfaith Chapel during upgrades completed in 2019, alongside shoe storage, kneelers and expanded shelving for holy texts. Similar basins exist at other large U.S. hubs, including Chicago O\u2019Hare.The project was registered with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation on July 31. The filing listed it as privately funded, put the cost at $300,000 and said construction would be finished by year\u2019s end.DFW said those details reflected administrative errors by its outside design firm and stressed that the project had never received final approval. A spokesperson said the $300,000 was a preliminary high estimate and that the actual cost, had the project gone forward, would have run closer to $120,000. The Dallas Express reported Friday that the filing had since been revised to $115,000 and reclassified.\u201cThat was an error and it should have indicated that airport funds would be used to pay for the work like all our projects,\u201d the airport said, adding that it does not use taxpayer dollars for operations and instead relies on revenue from parking and concessions.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/blueroutejournal.com\/?p=2301\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Blue Route Journal\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-08-15T14:07:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blueroutejournal.com\\\/?p=2301#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blueroutejournal.com\\\/?p=2301\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blueroutejournal.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/19da116f8d79cf8987781569801c6b7c\"},\"headline\":\"DFW Airport Scraps Islamic Foot-Washing Stations After Governor Threatens Its Funding\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-08-15T14:07:55+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blueroutejournal.com\\\/?p=2301\"},\"wordCount\":615,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blueroutejournal.com\\\/?p=2301#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blueroutejournal.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/08\\\/de0fd2efe1c910bb15654b00493690e5.avif\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/blueroutejournal.com\\\/?p=2301#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blueroutejournal.com\\\/?p=2301\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/blueroutejournal.com\\\/?p=2301\",\"name\":\"DFW Airport Scraps Islamic Foot-Washing Stations After Governor Threatens Its Funding - 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