Posted on 07/30/2010 3:25:48 PM PDT by dynachrome
Riyadh – Worshippers at a mosque in a Saudi Arabian village near Mecca discovered they were praying for 10 years in the wrong direction, a newspaper in the country reported Thursday.
Muslims are meant to pray in the direction of the most sacred site in Islam, known as the Kaaba, a large granite structure in the holy city of Mecca.
Villagers in Hadda, 20 kilometres north-west of Mecca, should have prayed southeast, but instead bent down five times a day in a northern direction.
After realizing the error, the mosque’s leaders changed the direction of the prayer carpets so the worshippers now face the Kaaba.
(Excerpt) Read more at weaselzippers.us ...
I found this pretty amusing....
Not me,
I face east towards Mecca each night in my back yard and piss like a racehorse in honor of the mooselimbs and freakin allah.
Talk about lost civilizations. They win on both counts....They’re not civilized and they’re lost.
Inbreeding is bad, mmkay?
Maybe compasses and GPS are infidel items. Not for muzzies.
And yet Islam has contributed so much to the world in the fields of medicine, mathematics and literature! /s
Ten years of prayers down the drain! LOL!
Off with their heads !
Damn! Did this bring us bad luck for the ‘08 election?
LMAO!
Any cub scout in the US can tell where the sun rises.
Ignorance disguised a religion.
Those poor folks need a good jewish lawyer
Kind of pales to insignificance compared to the fact that they’re praying to the wrong god.
ROFL. What have the been pointing at Mecca this whole time....
If they think they are in trouble for praying in the wrong DIRECTION, they are going to really be surprised when they discover they have been praying to the wrong god!
I wonder what direction the local “Mecca thataway” road-sign points.
NASA is going to introduce these animals to maps and compasses.
BSA has been slipping as of late mirroring trends in public education. When I was SPL we had tenderfoots not know that one and I quote “My dad has a GPS so we don’t need to know that stuff!”.
LOL
I think someone ought to tell them that they were actually praying towards Jerusalem . . .
dunno if that is a fact, but if they can miss a town 12.5 miles away . . . well, they sound kinda gullible
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