Orlando Airport to Build Separate Muslim Prayer Room

Orlando Airport to Build Separate Muslim Prayer Room

Orlando, Florida, may be home of Disney World, the “Happiest Place on Earth,” but its airport is not making the Rev. Franklin Graham too happy. In fact, he’s quite incensed at a decision that Orlando International Airport has just made.

The airport has decided that it would create a Muslim prayer room at the tune of $250,000 of taxpayer money. The “Reflection Room” is scheduled to open September 1.

Rev. Graham has vehemently objected, writing on Facebook: “Let’s call this what it is — a mosque. The airport already had an interfaith prayer room since 1983 (with prayer rugs available in it) — but that wasn’t enough. How loud do you think the objections would be today if they spent $250,000 in taxpayer money to build a new prayer room exclusively for Evangelical Christians? Or for Jews or Mormons or any other group? Why do Muslims get preference?”

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Many large American airports have had prayer chapels for some years, and they have altered their primarily Christian orientation to present more of an interfaith feel to adapt to travelers of different faiths.

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