"The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets,
the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers."
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Posted on 11/11/2011 6:51:39 PM PST by americanophile
The new tower on the skyline in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, looks incredibly like London’s Big Ben — and there’s a good reason.
A number of Muslims are calling for Greenwich Mean Time — the standard by which the world sets its clocks — be replaced by official Mecca time.
“This summer, the world’s largest clock began its first official duty: marking time during Ramadan in Mecca—Islam’s holiest city,” reports Salman Hameed writing for Religion Dispatches. ”This colossal clock bears a striking resemblance to Big Ben, and the tower that hosts it is six times taller than the British landmark, making it the second tallest building in the world, visible for 16 miles.”
And as it began service, there are calls from Muslims to for Mecca time to replace GMT — also called “Zulu” time by the military as well as astronauts in space. GMT has been the world standard for 125 years.
However, notes Hameed, some are claiming that GMT is an archaic holdover from colonial times — and it’s time to find a better standard. He continues:
Surely, there is nothing special about where the Greenwich Observatory is located. The reason that the meridian is zero at Greenwich is because the British figured out how to calculate longitude at sea first, so they got to make a part of England the main reference point. Names associated with science are often, if not always, symptomatic of political power of the time. This is why many of the elements discovered in the 20th century—like berkelium, americium, and californium—have American names (though sometimes there were competing claims from Soviet laboratories also).
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"The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets,
the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers."
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Your conditions are acceptable </Edgar the bug>
“Living on Mecca time” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
Can we just go all Curtis Lemay on those people and get it over with.
When these throwbacks to the stone age invent latitude and longitude we can talk about it.
Sorry guys — taking over the world is not going to be as easy as you think.
Any fault lines run through that place?
The day Hell freezes over.
Yeah, what happens when we nuke Mecca?
I dunno. But they are ALWAYS in ICBM range.
Besides, they are at least 700 years behind the times.
and mine. Not just no... ~hell~ no.
Well, among other things... It would prove once and for all that Islam is a false doctrine. Hmmm....
They would just take the time tick from the Royal Observatory and set their clock back 1400 years.
I suspect that the camels have plenty of ticks. Maybe they could use one of those?
Not even if it’s glass parking lot glow in the dark Mecca time.
Not even if it’s glass parking lot glow in the dark Mecca time.
Not even if it’s glass parking lot glow in the dark Mecca time.
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