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Saudi Arabia: Town Realizes They’ve Been Praying in Wrong Direction for 10 Years…
weaselzippers.us ^ | 7-30-10 | 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at weaselzippers.us ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Humor; Religion
KEYWORDS: muzzies; praying; wrongdirection
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Bonus: Mecca is only 12.5 miles away

I found this pretty amusing....

1 posted on 07/30/2010 3:25:53 PM PDT by dynachrome
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To: dynachrome

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.


2 posted on 07/30/2010 3:29:21 PM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) Ya unAmerican p.o.s.)
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To: dynachrome

Talk about lost civilizations. They win on both counts....They’re not civilized and they’re lost.


3 posted on 07/30/2010 3:29:45 PM PDT by Sacajaweau (What)
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To: dynachrome

Inbreeding is bad, mmkay?


4 posted on 07/30/2010 3:30:41 PM PDT by RichInOC ("In the name of Allah, The Inexorable, The Irresistible...")
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To: Sacajaweau

Maybe compasses and GPS are infidel items. Not for muzzies.


5 posted on 07/30/2010 3:30:54 PM PDT by dynachrome (Barack Hussein Obama yunikku khinaaziir!)
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To: dynachrome

And yet Islam has contributed so much to the world in the fields of medicine, mathematics and literature! /s


6 posted on 07/30/2010 3:31:03 PM PDT by doc1019 (Martyrdom is a great thing, until it is your turn.)
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To: dynachrome

Ten years of prayers down the drain! LOL!


7 posted on 07/30/2010 3:31:08 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Ich bin ein illegal alien! - Barry Obama standing up with Central and South America against Arizona.)
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To: dynachrome

Off with their heads !


8 posted on 07/30/2010 3:31:08 PM PDT by ßuddaßudd (7 days - 7 ways Guero >>> with a floating, shifting, ever changing persona.....)
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To: dynachrome

Damn! Did this bring us bad luck for the ‘08 election?


9 posted on 07/30/2010 3:31:58 PM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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To: Joe Boucher

LMAO!


10 posted on 07/30/2010 3:32:35 PM PDT by verity (Obama, the BS and rhetoric President)
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To: dynachrome

Any cub scout in the US can tell where the sun rises.

Ignorance disguised a religion.


11 posted on 07/30/2010 3:32:50 PM PDT by maine yankee
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To: dynachrome

Those poor folks need a good jewish lawyer


12 posted on 07/30/2010 3:34:19 PM PDT by nkycincinnatikid
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To: dynachrome

Kind of pales to insignificance compared to the fact that they’re praying to the wrong god.


13 posted on 07/30/2010 3:34:45 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: dynachrome

ROFL. What have the been pointing at Mecca this whole time....


14 posted on 07/30/2010 3:34:47 PM PDT by americanophile (November can't come fast enough....)
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To: dynachrome

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!


15 posted on 07/30/2010 3:35:08 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Satan is a Democrat and Obama is his minion.)
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To: dynachrome

I wonder what direction the local “Mecca thataway” road-sign points.


16 posted on 07/30/2010 3:35:37 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: dynachrome

NASA is going to introduce these animals to maps and compasses.


17 posted on 07/30/2010 3:36:32 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: maine yankee

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!”.


18 posted on 07/30/2010 3:37:57 PM PDT by Eyes Unclouded ("The word bipartisan means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out." -George Carlin)
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To: nkycincinnatikid

LOL


19 posted on 07/30/2010 3:37:57 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Live jubtabulously!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

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


20 posted on 07/30/2010 3:41:38 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx)
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