A group of Muslims was detained Wednesday at Orlando Sanford International Airport, apparently because of a panic over an Islamic cleanliness ritual, which requires Muslims to wash their hands, arms, face, feet and all their body orifices several times with water.

Orlando Sentinel  The captain of Allegiant flight No.625 from Allentown Pa., radioed ahead and asked airport police to meet the plane when it landed about 8:30p.m., said Larry Dale, airport director and commander of its 11-member police force.

Members of the group were lingering in the lavatory and asked for a cup, arousing suspicion, Dale said. An FBI agent was interviewing three men late Wednesday, but it appeared that the travelers were detained because of a religious custom dictating cleanliness and that they would be released.

“In today’s world, we’d rather be cautious,” Dale said.

About half a dozen people and one child were traveling from Pennsylvania to Central Florida for a volleyball and badminton tournament, Dale said.

At least two of the women wore headbags, a witness said.

A report released Thursday says an Allegiant dispatcher requested that police respond “in reference to Middle Eastern passengers.” 

Muhammad Musri, president of the Islamic Society of Central Florida, said devout Muslims customarily clean their private parts with water after using the restroom, and that is likely what members of the group were doing. 

“They [the airplane crew] didn’t understand it, probably,” Musri said. “If you didn’t know the reason, you’d say, ‘Why do you need the cup? Why are you taking it with you into the bathroom?’”

“I’m glad they didn’t have to divert the plane to another airport,” Musri said.

Frequently in a bathroom in a Muslim household, the toilet paper will have these massive fingerprint marks that have soaked through the entire roll of toilet paper.  Some of you might not even question why those marks are there, especially if those finger marks have dried out.  

The reality is, after you’re done washing and wiping your butt, you now most certainly need to finish the job off with some toilet paper since your butt is dripping wet.  In this situation, your hand is also dripping wet.  Unfortunately, some people make the unwise decision of using their wet hand to get some toilet paper.  

This roll of toilet paper is now tainted by a hand that has freshly wiped poop.  This essentially creates a quasi-”second hand toilet paper” situation (similar to butt deflected water on the floor), where the toilet paper you are using has specs of someone else’s poop on it. 

Something else we can thank Muslims for:

The FAA has ordered all airlines to disable emergency oxygen masks in airplane bathrooms, for fear that terrorists may use the oxygen to ignite a fire. This means that every time you go to the bathroom on a flight from now on, you’ll be risking your life if the plane decompresses.

‘Waaycist’ pink graffiti including a swastika, the letters KKK, and the word “stink” have been found painted in the driveway of a Somali Muslim in Minnesota. And terror-linked CAIR wants it designated as a ‘hate crime.’

Post Bulletin  The Minnesota branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations called Wednesday for an FBI investigation into an apparent bias crime at the Rochester home of a Somali family.

A swastika, the letters KKK and the word “stink” were painted early Sunday morning on the driveway of Osman Sheik’s home on Somersby Court Northwest.

Fahma Mohamed, Sheik’s daughter, said her family doesn’t “understand where this is coming from,” because they are very open about their culture with the community. (BINGO!)  Mohamed says many neighbors have brought over flowers and expressed their regret. (Ah yes, it’s almost as if there were a death in the family) It took about three hours to power-wash the graffiti away.

In a press release issued Wednesday, CAIR-MN Executive Director Lori Saroya called on state and federal authorities to assist in bringing the perpetrators to justice. “Minnesotans of all faiths must speak out against the hatred and intolerance that leads to this type of disturbing incident,” Saroya said.

CAIR-MN also asked the FBI to investigate a similar crime that occurred last May at a house about two blocks away. That house was also tagged with the symbols, prompting the family to invest in security measures like video cameras. The Rochester Police Department is investigating Sunday’s crime, but has no leads at this time, Lt. Dan Muyres said. (That’s because you haven’t checked out the local mosque members)