Brits Turn Toilets for Muslim Prisoners

Newsmax.com ^ | 4-20-2006 | Carl Limbacher

[tet68]

Muslim inmates complain that they have to sit sideways on prison toilets to comply with that prohibition.

And there's a problem with this?

Here is a bigger problem.....

Around a quarter of prisoners at the prison are Muslims

[beaversmom]

Muslims are insane and the Brits are even more insane for going along with their insanity.

[AmericanChef]

I'm sure they've burped, farted, had sex with a goat facing Mecca. This is beyond stupidity to give in to their demands. They're simply trying to score points, and look, they're winning the game.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

How far away from Mecca are you required to "face" when using the toilet? It would seem to me that the odds of a toilet directly facing Mecca are very small.

Also, how do you determine what direction Mecca is? I thought that the toughest problem would be getting the right magnetic declinations -- so that true, rather than magnetic directions could be determined (these declinations change constantly, as the magnetic north pole moves about). It turns out that finding Mecca isn't easy -- it's actually a fascinating problem in geography,geometry, and map making. There's more at this web site:

http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/projects/tobler/Qibla/sld040.htm

Here's one of the simpler maps from that site:



If you don't have that map handy; you can always use this simple formula:

Imagine if the brain power expended on this exercise were put to some practical use.

[MARKUSPRIME]

Utter madness. I sh*t in the general direction of mecca every chance I get. :D

[Joe 6-pack]

"the number 7 was better than the number 4."

That's the dumbest thing I ever heard. Everybody knows 7 is better.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Imagine if the brain power expended on this exercise were put to some practical use."

Like missile telemetry?

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

"Like missile telemetry?"

Ouch! I hadn't considered that.

[Minutemen]

UNBELIEVABLE!

[The Great RJ]

Doesn't the Koran somewhere prohibit flush toilets? What direction do they crap in Mecca or is there a fatwa against having a BM in the holy city?

[Nowhere Man]

"Hey Mecca, I fart in your general direction!!!"

[Chode]

and to think the brits wanted to conquer the world... for what???

to give the world crappers facing anyplace except at the moonrock??????

[TC Rider]

I suspect a 'device' would cost more than black paint and some plywood.

Though your idea would certainly be more satisfying.

[pointsal]

Oh crap....