Re: Foot in the sink
I don't have the facilities to pray at work but at school we used the WC wash-basins and then made sure to mop up using tissue after ourselves so we're not giving Muslims a bad rep.
I know a school in USA with majority Muslim students recently installed footbaths in the WC and the Islam-Haters were going absoloutley balistic oozing with vemon on other websites about how Muslims are a threat to their way of life and how they should assimilate.. So we Muslims should keep it on the low and not request too much or people will just look for an excuse to hate us more.
One of the Imams said we could do masah *(wipe) over the top of the feet if wearing socks since the last time we performed ablution, most scholars of the Hanafi school say the socks have to be leather for the ablution to be valid with *masah, others allow it on regular socks so long as there's no major holes in them and they're not transparent.