[az_gila]

I wasn't personally fully buying into the theory - I was saying that your initial comment of “Mecca is about 22 degrees south of due east” did not follow geometry, mathematics and geography... sheesh.

It was your mathematics and initial measuring that was incorrect! Then you complained about my "rubber band".

[mazda77]

http://muslim-canada.org/qibla.html

Irregardless, with the angle wrong, their prayers would be going to Moscow and deemed invalid. I based my direction off the above content which is the way it was explained to me while serving in Teheran back on the early seventies. I didn’t need to know it for myself other than just trying to figure the people out that I worked around and with.

The opening of the memorial is designed to provide an open unobstructed view to the actual crash site as viewed from the bowl.

This whole argument reminds me of lets keep them looking at the left hand while the right is doing something like the monuments to the hijackers being in the same hemisphere or anywhere on US soil. Lets focus on that reality.