DFW Airport Scraps Islamic Foot-Washing Stations After Governor Draws a Line
“DFW plans to install Islamic wudu washing facilities are illegal. I’ve directed a review of all state grants to both airports for possible revocation.”
Earlier this week, Fox News reported that Islamic foot-washing stations were slated to be installed inside restrooms at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. According to documents from the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, “the installation of the Wudu ablution stations [was] expected to be completed by the end of the year.”
The documents stated the project would cost approximately $300,000 and that it was privately funded. The stations would prevent water from spilling onto restroom floors and “protect sink counters.”
Further, the documents noted that “similar low-level basins and interfaith spaces already exist at other major international airport hubs across the U.S., including Chicago O’Hare.”
I travel a fair amount, and I’ve never seen anyone washing their feet in a women’s restroom. I asked my husband if he had ever encountered it in a men’s restroom, and he said he never had.
Frankly, the very idea of this project rubbed me the wrong way. Why would airport officials in Texas be pandering to the Muslim community in such an obvious, unnecessary, discriminatory, and, as I see it, humiliating way? This is America.
You idiots
You are willingly causing your own downfall … WTF pic.twitter.com/MFWm2gjtbV— Aryo 𓃭 ☼ 🇺🇲 (@uppercut911) August 13, 2026
Apparently, I wasn’t the only one irked by the project. Many Americans opposed the installation of Wudu ablution stations — including Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R).
In a Friday memo, Abbott announced he’d directed a review of all state grants to Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airports. The news release read (in part):
These ablution facilities appear designed to single out one subset of the population for special treatment based on religion. That is illegal. Both airports are government-owned facilities. The federal and state constitutions prohibit government 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.
Abbott also wrote a letter to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy “to refer the airports for federal investigations.”
And he posted a copy of the memo on X with the following message:
Government-owned airports cannot favor one religion over all others.
DFW plans to install Islamic wudu washing facilities are illegal. I’ve directed a review of all state grants to both airports for possible revocation, and referred DFW & IAH to USDOT for investigation.
Texas will not allow illegal religious discrimination at taxpayer-funded facilities.
Government-owned airports cannot favor one religion over all others.
DFW plans to install Islamic wudu washing facilities are illegal. I've directed a review of all state grants to both airports for possible revocation, and referred DFW & IAH to USDOT for investigation.
Texas… pic.twitter.com/XY58WAKJ8N
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) August 14, 2026
Abbott’s threat of withholding state grants worked like a charm. Shortly after his announcement, DFW officials canceled the project.
In a statement to Fox News, an airport spokesman said that officials had “accelerated [their] review” in response to “elevated public interest this week.”
The statement read:
DFW was in the process of evaluating an internal proposal to add a set of ablution washing stations on the pre-security side of Terminal D, the international terminal. Like all proposed projects, the airport ultimately considers the operational benefits, customer service impacts, operational risks and costs before approving them.
While 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.
DFW officials had previously told Fox News that both the reported price tag of $300,000 and the initial report that the project would be “privately funded” were incorrect, which they blamed on “administrative errors.”
The officials estimated the final cost of the project would likely have been closer to $120,000.
Most significantly, they noted that the work would not be “privately funded” as stated earlier. Instead, “airport funds would be used to pay for the work like all our projects,” DFW said.
They made clear that DFW “does not use taxpayer dollars for airport operations and instead relies on revenue streams, including parking and concessions.”
According to The Texas Tribune:
Anti-Islamic rhetoric has been at the forefront of Texas Republican messaging through the year, as GOP leaders have railed for months about the urgency of ending the so-called “Islamification” of Texas.
Abbott has repeatedly used threats of withdrawing funding as a means of exerting control over Texas cities to press issues important to the GOP base in the state. Most recently, Abbott threatened $530,000 in grants for Grand Prairie unless the city canceled an event at a water park initially advertised as a “Muslims only” gathering. He also threatened funding for transportation last year unless cities removed rainbow crosswalks intended to show support for LGBTQ+ communities.
I stand with the governor on these issues, as all Americans who value preserving our shared national culture should.
Thank you. 🙏🏼 pic.twitter.com/20wsr3ef5H
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Comments
Islam is NOT compatible with western society its mores.
End of story.
You can have a Republic, or you can have a caliphate.
You cannot have both.
There’s a reason the cliche mentions the nose of a camel coming under a tent because the people doing nonsense this come from the land of the camel.
Muslims can muslim all they want, just not here. Go to Saudi Arabia if you want to be near the holy sites. Go to Somalia if you have the IQ of a fire hydrant and lust after children.
Just go away.
Taxpayers should not have to foot the bill.
Well-played!
You didn’t pussy foot in that comment.
Fur shure.
I’m sorry but what a weird hill to die on. They blast the call to prayer in some of our cities. They establish mosques. They are running for office. 300k for foot washing is an objective waste of money. But it doesn’t strike me as an Islamic takeover, certainly not in comparison to the other ways they are influencing society for the worst.
But hey, our politicians seem to love taking easy wins while protecting the more influential and expensive projects. I’d argue that’s what they do best, proffering lame solutions to small potato problems while letting the world rot around them.
It’s not “either/or,” it’s “both/and.” Radicals use incrementalism to advance their subversive schemes, and it’s worked beautifully.
Look at the past hundred years: the progressives/Marxists have used it to great advantage in politics, education, arts & culture, even religion. They are happy every time someone says “hey, it’s no big deal,” because they know that indifference allows them to gain ground every single time.
The ablution stations are a signal, as is group prayer in the street. “This is ours, not yours.”
Some signals are big, some are small, all are signals, and it’s foolish to ignore them.
Like animals marking their territory.
It’s the camels nose , it’s demanding to accept their culture and disregard ours
What don’t you get
“The water feels fine” says the frog.
Our politicans are all paid for by the muslims
FOOT washing? I thought those things were bidets.
How you use them is up to you,
Or low-hanging urinals
Can we replace them with Jewish Circumcision/Gender Affirmation stations?
“I travel a fair amount, and I’ve never seen anyone washing their feet in a women’s restroom. I asked my husband if he had ever encountered it in a men’s restroom, and he said he never had”
Well apparently you have never been to the Netherlands!
Iwas there on my
Way to Africa and low amd
Behold I. A
Small women’s bathroom, 2 commodes, ridiculous to be fair. A Muslim woman all bins ed up was washing her feet in the sink.
There was a line out the door and everyone was pissed amd no one said anything
Now I’m not from this country and needed to release myself and get to Africa, so I just stood there.
No one could get by her big ass body to use the second commode.
Now if it was my turn, I would have got in her face (eyes) and told her to move, ever so politely
But no one wanted to wash their hands in that sink
And she didn’t give a shit what inconvenience she was giving to everyone else
Islam is hatred
By the way, Houston has these already
So after what I saw in Europe, we are going to need some very strong and
Strict laws regarding foot washing in the bathroom sinks??!
DFW plans to install Islamic wudu washing facilities are illegal.
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corto y derecho–thank you governor
Good article and great moves by Governor Abbott!
The Hadith directs one to use an odd number of stones to cleans oneself after defecation.
Should each bathroom stall have a pile of stones?
Alternative headline: Hotwheels Abbott takes time out of his busy schedule of taking lucrative campaign contributions from the E-Indian H1-B lobby to turn DFW into Mumbai 2.0 in order to pat himself on the back for picking low hanging islamic fruit while doing nothing about the invasive species known as Mega-Mosques devouring the Texas country side.
A bit wordy, but I’ll allow it.
This latest foot wash move by Abbott is better than nothing, but he is no anti-immigrant stalwart – as noted above.
And don’t forget his impotent response to Biden facillitating the invasion of millions of illegals across the Rio Grande. Abbott merely offered GOPe head fakes.
Apparently, with Abbott at the helm, just about any foreigner can mess with Texas.
He was a MAJOR disappointment on the border
Broken clocks are right twice a day.
Agree. Why hasn’t he done more to stop the multitude of mosques being built?
He supposedly banned sharia compounds, but what about sharia law? Adhan, halal, burka/niqab? All of which should also be addressed at national level, including banning foreign funding of schools/mosques/property.
Any state or local government act to stop mosques being built is illegal. Governments have no right to stop mosques being built, and are required to issue whatever permits and variances are needed for them. RLUIPA is the supreme law of the land.
And don’t forget his impotent response to Biden facillitating the invasion of millions of illegals across the Rio Grande. Abbott merely offered GOPe head fakes.
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he began bussing illegal immigrants north more than four years ago–by the thousands
previously (as ag) he called out obama’s policies on lenient / open border practices and worked to change / challenge them and continued to do so as governor during fjb’s term
he is working to build / foster cooperation with ice / dhs to do even more to secure our border–rather huge tasks to accomplish considering the border is over a thousand miles long here under the lone star
Abbott should have clot the border and dared Biden to do anything
The support he would have gotten would have been unbelievable
He would have been VP pick, no doubt
He would have been in jail. Biden wouldn’t have needed to do anything; the courts would have thrown him in jail for contempt.
The story states “mistakes were made” in the filing, prepared by a separate company.
Who prepared the document = who made the mistake? Mistakes happen, but this one does not pass the initial sniff test. Names of firms and/or people, please.
The story mentions ‘anticipated operational benefits’ = exactly what benefits were anticipated? A list, please.
Public docs should allow public access.
One of the “anticipated operational benefits was to stop Muslims from washing their feet in the sinks instead.
I’m so old, I remember when the big no-no was brushing your teth in them.
A foot wash station in the bathroom for Muslims, or
The Ten Commandments in the lobby?
Which one is in violation of the Establishment Clause according to our Judiciary? We need to take stock before it’s too late.
The answer is that a foot washing station is a reasonable accommodation of religious practice, which was long thought to be required by the constitution, and which is definitely at least permitted by it, and may be required by a state RFRA.
The Ten Commandments in the lobby of a government building, in a context where it appears that the government is endorsing them, violates the establishment clause, which everyone except Thomas agrees is incorporated against the states.
Every time one of these moose limbs enter the United States and demands we make accommodations for him/her, our Republic dies, just a little more.
Democrats and their very loyal leftist women allies are going to bring down the United States if the rest of us don’t stand up and say NO MORE OF THIS.
We need to join the Irish
They are making plans and they mean business
Emasculated, self-destructive dhimmitude and Jew-hate/Israel-hate run deep in Ireland.
The Irish have a long way to go to reverse the trend and to atone for their gullibility in service of Islamofascism.
wonder if there are wudu washing facilities in the chicago shithouse
I’m so tired of this endless, obsequious, cowed and self-defeating dhimmitude, in obeisance to goose-stepping, obnoxious and subversive Islamofascists/Muslim supremacists.
Hear, hear!!
And here I was ready to dump bacon bits into the wash tubs.
This is bullshit. Abbot is full of shit. The washing stations are a reasonable accommodation for a religious practice, which is absolutely legal and constitutional, and consistent with long-standing American tradition.
Additionally, if the janitorial staff report a significant problem with people making a mess trying to wash their feet without such stations, then providing the stations are a practical solution.
They can carry wet wipes.
They are also allowed to make up prayers. Enough kowtowing.
Yes, they can work around the lack of facilities. That doesn’t change the fact that making reasonable accommodations for religious practices is the American way. And if they are making a mess then it only makes sense to provide them with the facilities that’ll induce them to stop making one. It’s not as if they want to make a mess.
This is bullshit. Abbot is full of shit. The washing stations are a reasonable accommodation for a religious practice, which is absolutely legal and constitutional, and consistent with long-standing American tradition.
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you’re dead wrong–this far exceeds any ” reasonable accomodation ” as noted in the constitution–this is a practice that inconvenieinces thousands of people in order to accomodate a few ( in proportion to the thousands of citizens using airports daily ) and all to adhere to some peculiar practice dictated by a ” religion ” concocted out of whole cloth along the lines of kwanzaa, or moonies, etc–don’t know the precise number of travellers passing through dfw daily but would wager it far exceeds the number of faithful footwashers–show me the law that says ” we ” must make ” reasonable accomodations ” for some squirrelly religious practice that delays the functions of airports and air travel–a national enterprise that functions on tight schedules in order to stay in business and provide necessary services to us all
Since when do religions get special accommodations at taxpayers’ expense? Since never.
Calls to prayer, mosques, prayer rooms in schools, foot washing stations,
burkas in polling places…when does it end? Never, unless the voters make it end.
First of all there’s no taxpayer expense. Taxpayers do not pay for anything at the airport.
Second, government accommodations for religious practice have been a standard American practice since forever. They are an inherent part of American culture.
They used to be regarded as required by the constitution. Then the Supreme Court said they were permitted but not required; Congress immediately legislated RFRA, to require them anyway.
Then the Supreme Court said that applied only to federal law, because Congress had no authority to require the states to make such accommodations. Many states immediately passed their own RFRA.
Congress also passed RLUIPA, which requires states to make religious accommodations in certain limited situations, where the Supreme Court agreed it did have that authority.
Assimilate and wear the proper foot gear. Is Texas trying to be the American Mecca?
“Reasonable accommodation” ??
Where is the request for an RA – from whom?
The wudu process is not trivial:
See, for example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wudu
This describes rinsing with water -no soap, no true ‘cleaning’ but only a water rinse. Clean earth or sand can be used. The water must be ‘clean’ – so the processed./purified tap water is acceptable? Different rules/processes/procedures apply to different sects or schools. Many “if-but’ rules and exemptions and exceptions.
A slippery slope to no good end IMHO.