There is a post on the Fodorite Lounge:
"Should IND install a foot washing sink to accommodate Muslims?"
http://www.fodors.com/forums/threadselect.jsp?fid=134&tid=35072145
Has anyone seen foot washing sinks in Middle East airports?
Are there foot washing sinks in Middle East airports?
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I don't recall seeing those in Tel Aviv but I wasn't looking either. I'm going to Egypt and Jordan in November, I'll keep an eye out and post back when I return. (unless someone else posts a definitive answer first)
Probably in Saudi Arabia.
...If this is all serious... Sounds more like a joke to me...
Probably doesn't count. And it's not a joke. Did you read the other post?
Taps & hoses in the cubicles - but there's also drainage in the floor.
And I have seen foot washing sinks in a number of Muslim countries
Maybe if that senator washed his feet first...
And P_M, honey, you were in men's restrooms in Tel Aviv? What on Earth...
OH--the foot washing thing is just for men? No wonder I never saw one.
Well, there's that, and maybe also the fact that TLV is in Israel.
AARRRGGGGHHHH, forget I said anything!!


OK, let me start over again. On my upcoming trip to Egypt and Jordan, I will ask a man in my group to keep an eye out for foot washers in the men's room at the airport.
PS If a man is using a foot washer in an airport restroom, does it mean anything if he taps his foot while washing?
Only if he's got an extremely wide stance
Anyone know if foot washing before prayers applies also to women? Are there sinks in women's bathrooms?
I never saw Muslim women praying.... I guess it's only man who're allowd to pray to Allah.
Muslim women praying

http://www.fotosearch.com/PHD240/32046/
In Egypt, women often don't go to the mosque to pray. There's always far more men than women. My best guess is that it's due to babysitting problems.
Women are always in the rear of the Mosque. A Moslem friend (male) explained that people bend over when they pray and men might have impure thoughts if they viewed the women's derrieres.
The picture that was posted here is, I think, a picture of women praying in Mecca omn the Hadj. Note that there are no men in the picture.
We have a mosq in San Francisco, and I can see men walking to and from. Usually men, rarely with children, and never women.
Mohammed said: "The best mosques for women are the inner parts of their houses"
I am fairly certain you would find at all airports in the ME/Gulf area
Any firsthand knowledge?
I've seen a sunken area with a hose, a bucket, and a drainage in a couple of ME/southern Asian airport, definitely in Indonesia. They were at ladies bathroom, but I wasn't sure if they were meant for pre-prayer cleansing or in lieu of toilet paper.
Though I am not a religion specialist, my understanding is that women have rights but not fixed-timed obligations to pray. In my neighbourhood (a central mosque and a big persian one), we definitely see many women going to mosques.
Muscat, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Bahrain etc, in fact it would be surprising if they "didn't" have as most if not all have prayer rooms.
It is my understanding that women can pray in a separate section of the mosque, or in rows behind the men. But they mostly pray at home since they have to take care of the smaller children.
They pray at home because their version of Islam, or at least their mosque, requires it based on one interpretation of the prophet's words. The belief is that women should ONLY use the "best mosque" - the one in their home.
I don't think that the child care suggestion is valid. Not for the mosque near FainaAgain: "never women". No old women, no middle aged women with grown children, no married women without children, no single or widowed women. Can't be that they all are caring for children.
But other mosques allow women in the back of the mosque (probably a bunch of different reasonings for why this is the practice).
Jed -
I've lived in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and I've never seen a foot washing sink. The airports in Muslim countries provide prayer rooms and some, but not all of them, do provide washing areas.
I was just in Jakarta a few days ago and saw a washing station near the prayer room in an airport lounge.
Most washing goes in in restrooms, often evidenced by large pools of water on the floor. Often the loo is conveniently located very near the prayer room.
We were just in Heathrow, terminal 3. Asking 2 people, there were no footwashing sinks in any terminal, but one said that there was one outside near a prayer room. I asked a Muslim man who just came out of an inside prayer room, and he said that he washed his feet in the bathroom sink.
the Dubai airport has a stall for foot washing, and the rest of the stalls had hoses...guess it was for the feet
Hoses in Middle Eastern toilets are used in lieu of toilet paper. I suppose they could be used for feet too.
Our house in Kuwait had western style toilets AND hoses in the bathrooms. The maid used them to wash the floor.
Whatever works, I guess.