Mecca mosques 'wrongly aligned'

[westerby]

Source: BBC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle ... 984556.stm

Some 200 mosques in Islam's holiest city, Mecca, point the wrong way for prayers, reports from Saudi Arabia say.
All mosques have a niche showing the direction of the most sacred Islamic site, the Kaaba, an ancient cube-like building in Mecca's Grand Mosque.
But people looking down from recently built high-rises in Mecca found the niches in many older mosques were not pointing directly towards the Kaaba.
Some worshippers are said to be anxious about the validity of their prayers.
There have been suggestions that laser beams could be used to make an exact measurement.
Tawfik al-Sudairy, Islamic affairs ministry deputy secretary, downplayed the problem in remarks quoted by the pan-Arab newspaper al-Hayat.
"There are no major errors but corrections have been made for some old mosques, thanks to modern techniques," he said.
"In any case, it does not affect the prayers."

[Laan Yaa Mo]

You had better hide further under the chesterfield Khun Westerby or those head-covered crazed Muslim females are going to blame you, the infidel, and strike you down with their demonic stare and their regulation made-in-China Thatcher-era handbags. 55555 Beware and fear for your life, saaaaaaaaaaaduuuuuuuuu

[westerby]

Uncle Tilo - no worries, I'm an expert at origami so I'll fold 'em up in seconds. I understand that Udon has a Mosque somewhere. We might need a senior with time on his hands to do some work with his compass and GPS.

[wazza]

Westers all is forgiven

They have run out of virgins, so dont suicide.

[Laan Yaa Mo]

Well... it seems that I have not only misjudged you but misunderstood you too.The thing is I always pictured you knitting sweaters for ferocious pink poodles in your spare hours.

Contact por tao (old man timer) for help in the compass-tons-of-time-on-his-hands department.

Note that I did not say, khon leo (bad man, bad as$).

[westerby]

Westers all is forgiven

They have run out of virgins, so dont suicide.

No worries, I'm a Christian so I don't believe in suicide (and only one Virgin).

I'm just thinking about all that potential civil engineering work that US, Australian and European countries are going to pick up to realign those old Mosques. I love the irony.

Well... it seems that I have not only misjudged you but misunderstood you too.

Again, no worries. Westers has been consistently misunderstood on this Forum (I don't really have a pink Poodle, readers), it adds to the fun.

[wazza]

NO need to realign them, the Pakis are doing a good job of taking them out on their own. Just ask them to do it on the Haj.

Weather report today in Mecca, Sunni today , sheite 2morrow

[farang]

Weather report today in Mecca, Sunni today , sheite 2morrow

[westerby]

Weather report today in Mecca, Sunni today , sheite 2morrow

Your quip is hilarious but off topic - you are to draft 100 lines stating, 'I must take the Muslim threat seriously'.

NO need to realign them, the Pakis are doing a good job of taking them out on their own.

Yes, I noticed, how bizarre. If a mad Christian blew up a parish church in England, everybody would say, 'And?'. I think Henry VIII was the last barn pot to do something like that.

I wonder how many degrees these Mosques are out, they should have kept quiet and shifted these niches a little bit when the pilgrims weren't looking.

[wazza]

I must zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Laan Yaa Mo]

I don't really have a pink Poodle

Well, that is it, the last link in the puzzle. There really is no God or Allah after all!

I am soooooooooooooooo disillusioned.

It is time to go out and play baseball for the first time this year.

[LoongLee]

I will gladly volunteer to realign them, without pay. They may not like how I do it, but I will realign them...... I think a 2000lb JDAM would be just the ticket, yeah that's it,,,,,, :-"

[beer monkey]

Some 200 mosques in Islam's holiest city, Mecca, point the wrong way for prayers,

Cowboy Builders Get Everywhere..

Weather report today in Mecca, Sunni today , sheite 2morrow

Your quip is hilarious but off topic - you are to draft 100 lines stating, 'I must take the Muslim threat seriously'.

yes Wazza.. 1000 lashings at dawn with a wet 'MaMa' noodle...and early to bed.