[dynachrome]

Bonus: Mecca is only 12.5 miles away

I found this pretty amusing....

[Chode]

[SeaHawkFan]

If Hadda wasn’t perpetually cloudy, they could have figured out the correct direction. I’ve heard it is rarely sunny in Saudi Arabia.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

So NASA wants them to feel good about their contributions to science and technology? They can't even read a road map?

[Cheburashka]

"Oh, that Mecca!!! We've been praying to the other Mecca for years! Boy, are our faces red!!"

[Amberdawn]

10 years? More like 1300.....

[gitmo]

So shouldn’t the Muslim world strike down these blasphemers?

[GreenLanternCorps]

[gitmo]

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.

[eyedigress]

Makes sense to me.

[ronnie raygun]

There’s a thing called a compass

[Kaslin]

[wxgesr]

They should be using omni-directional prayer rugs....that way the prayer is transmitted in all directions. I think they should behead the dumbsonofabeeeyotch that designed their mosque.

[KarlInOhio]

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.

You think that's tough? How about the 25,000 mile walk to Mecca and the 25,000 mile walk back when they make their Haj pilgrimage.