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Saudi Arabia: Town Realizes They’ve Been Praying in Wrong Direction for 10 Years…
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| Weasel Zippers
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.
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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor; Religion
KEYWORDS: muzzies; praying; wrongdirection
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To: dynachrome
"Oh, that Mecca!!! We've been praying to the other Mecca for years! Boy, are our faces red!!"
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posted on
07/30/2010 4:08:02 PM PDT
by
Cheburashka
(Stephen Decatur: You want barrels of gunpowder as tribute, you must expect cannonballs with it.)
To: Chode
"Face the Kaaba"
To: FlingWingFlyer
Ten years of prayers down the drain! LOL! You'd think they'd have picked up on the error based on the lack of effectiveness of their prayers...
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posted on
07/30/2010 4:16:15 PM PDT
by
Onelifetogive
(For the record, McCarthy was right.)
To: americanophile
Sooo, they were moooning the rock???
Pricelesss!
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posted on
07/30/2010 4:16:42 PM PDT
by
Leo Carpathian
(fffffFRrrreeeeepppeeee-ssed!)
To: doc1019
Read “The Lost History of Christianity,” by Philip Jenkins, Harper-Collins 2008, to learn how much the Arabs’ contributions to science and literature, etc., stemmed from the Christian scholars that lived among them back in those fruitful days; and that the “Arabic” numeral system originated in India with no help from Islam, or Arabs.
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posted on
07/30/2010 4:23:28 PM PDT
by
Elsiejay
(.)
To: Chode
That a sex ed teaching tool ?
46
posted on
07/30/2010 4:25:49 PM PDT
by
Squantos
(Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
To: FatherofFive
“The Koran and hadiths are replete with examples of Muhammad’s barbaric behavior...”
Which is why I pray that He will turn their minds...
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posted on
07/30/2010 4:32:27 PM PDT
by
mrs. a
(It's a short life but a merry one...)
To: Elsiejay
I hope you noticed the little /s after my comment. Was just fun’n
I have read Jenkins’ book and many others about this subject and have come to only one conclusion ... The Arabs in general and Muslims in particular have contributed very little if anything toward the “advancement” of mankind.
Of course they do excel in the art of beheading and wife abuse amongst other barbaric practices.
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posted on
07/30/2010 4:37:45 PM PDT
by
doc1019
(Martyrdom is a great thing, until it is your turn.)
To: buccaneer81
I know - let’s send one up on a rocket ship!
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posted on
07/30/2010 4:38:29 PM PDT
by
ichabod1
(Hitler Was Their Fate and their Fate Could Not Be Stayed. Von Braustitch.)
To: FatherofFive
Ibn Ishaq: 992 - "Fight everyone in the way of Allah and kill those who disbelieve in Allah." I believe in Allah alright, just not what they want me to believe. I've also been looking for those steely knives in case I meet him some day.
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posted on
07/30/2010 4:43:53 PM PDT
by
King Moonracer
(Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
To: Joe Boucher
Just checked again,yes-both of our toilets point toward Mecca.Still working on training our horses to dump to the east.
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posted on
07/30/2010 4:47:24 PM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(stop thinking about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
To: dynachrome
10 years? More like 1300.....
To: windsorknot
pretty much...
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posted on
07/30/2010 7:18:21 PM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: dynachrome
So shouldn’t the Muslim world strike down these blasphemers?
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posted on
07/30/2010 7:18:34 PM PDT
by
gitmo
( The democRats drew first blood. It's our turn now.)
To: Squantos
maybe THAT, is why they are afraid of women...
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posted on
07/30/2010 7:20:08 PM PDT
by
Chode
(American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
To: dynachrome
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posted on
07/30/2010 8:32:47 PM PDT
by
GreenLanternCorps
("Barack Obama" is Swahili for "Jimmy Carter".)
To: dynachrome
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.
So they've been mooning Mecca 5 times a day? That might catch on around the world.
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posted on
07/30/2010 8:36:49 PM PDT
by
gitmo
( The democRats drew first blood. It's our turn now.)
To: doc1019
And yet Islam has contributed so much to the world in the fields of medicine, mathematics and literature! /sYou forgot astronomy and navigation...
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posted on
07/30/2010 8:48:55 PM PDT
by
Publius6961
("In 1964 the War on Poverty Began --- Poverty won.")
To: Publius6961
I'm amazed that no one has asked the obvious.
Why only ten years of screwing up?
What did they do before that?
Not pray at all?
What?
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posted on
07/30/2010 8:55:39 PM PDT
by
Publius6961
("In 1964 the War on Poverty Began --- Poverty won.")
To: Onelifetogive
ROTFL!!! Now that’s funny.
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posted on
07/30/2010 10:06:48 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Ich bin ein illegal alien! - Barry Obama standing up with Central and South America against Arizona.)
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