DFW Airport Removed Its Crosses and Nobody Said a Word and Now the Airport Is Spending $300000 on Islamic Wash Stations

August 16, 2026 Cat2, The Media
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The DFW airport chapel already replaced its crosses with Muslim prayer rugs.

Now Terminal D is getting $300,000 worth of Islamic foot wash stations.

But the people who run the busiest airport in Texas are claiming that it has nothing to do with religion.

The Same Playbook That Started in Kansas City in 2007

This is not a new fight.

In 2007, Kansas City International Airport quietly installed four foot-washing benches after Muslim cab drivers requested them for pre-prayer ablution rituals.

Airport officials called them "wash areas used for any wash purpose by any of the users."

Nobody believed them then either.

Indianapolis followed.

Then Chicago O'Hare.

Now Dallas – the heart of conservative Texas – is next.

Each time, airport officials use the same script: safety concern, plumbing issue, helps everybody.

Each time, the only people who ever use them are Muslims performing Wudu before prayer.

Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch said it plainly when Indianapolis installed theirs: "The only conceivable group that will use the foot bath are Muslims for prayer. It's a religious installation for a religious use."

Nineteen years later, Texas airports are still running the same play.

The Double Standard That Would Never Fly in Reverse

Ask yourself one question.

If Catholic cab drivers at DFW requested $300,000 worth of holy water fonts installed in Terminal D restrooms – privately funded, totally voluntary – how long would that take to get approved?

You know the answer.

A conservative writer visiting DFW's chapels this past Palm Sunday found no crosses in two separate chapel visits.

Just prayer rugs.

The Federalist published the account.

The airport didn't deny it.

This is the pattern.

Christian symbols disappear.

Islamic accommodations expand.

And anyone who notices gets called a bigot.

The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation registered the foot wash project on July 31.

The project "consists of adding Ablution stations to existing concourse level restrooms in Terminal D" – one in the men's room, one in the women's room.

Expected completion: end of 2026.

Three hundred thousand dollars.

Privately funded, they say.

By whom? DFW hasn't answered.

Greg Abbott's office hasn't answered.

Texas Is Watching This Happen in Real Time

Texas Republicans spent the last two election cycles building their base around border security and America First priorities.

Trump carried Texas by double digits.

And right now, a planned 400-acre Muslim community is being developed in Plano – just north of Dallas – complete with a mosque, a faith-based school, and more than 1,000 homes.

Local residents showed up to fight it.

The establishment told them to calm down.

Now the same airport serving that region is installing religious washing stations and calling it a plumbing fix.

Every conservative who got called paranoid for the last decade is watching this unfold and thinking the same thing: we told you.

Conservative activist Ryan Fournier went online to defend the stations as "basic airport management."

He's wrong.

The stations may solve a plumbing problem.

But that plumbing problem only exists because airport officials spent years looking the other way while people washed their feet in standard sinks.

You accommodated the behavior first.

Then you built $300,000 worth of infrastructure around it.

That's not airport management.

That's a religious accommodation dressed up in the language of safety so nobody has to say what it actually is.

And nobody will say who's paying for it.

Three hundred thousand dollars in private funding is flowing into a publicly operated airport for Islamic religious infrastructure – and the people running the busiest airport in Texas don't think Texans deserve to know whose money that is.

That's the question Greg Abbott should be demanding an answer to right now.

Because if a foreign Islamic organization or a Saudi-funded nonprofit is writing checks to redesign the bathrooms at DFW, that's not a plumbing story.

That's a very different story entirely.

Sources:

  • Landon Mion, "Dallas-Fort Worth airport to install Islamic foot wash stations inside bathrooms," Fox News, August 12, 2026.
  • "DFW's 'Interfaith' Chapels Replace Crosses With Prayer Rugs," The Federalist, April 7, 2026.
  • "Airport admits installing foot-washing benches," WorldNetDaily, May 2, 2007.
  • "Muslim footbaths spark another fight," WorldNetDaily, October 2, 2007.
  • "Relief: now you can wash your feet at Indianapolis International Airport," Robert Spencer, September 2007.