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“One is the fact that early mosques didn’t face Mecca as they universally do, now. Many actually face Petra”

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That “facing Mecca” schtick has always sound funny to me since I was taught that the Earth is round, probably at 3rd grade.
But followers of the Religion of Pieces take it seriously because they believe the Earth could not possible be other than flat. Talk about an obscurantist cult.

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From Wikipedia:

“The most common technical definition used by Muslim astronomers for a location is the direction on the great circle—in the Earth’s Sphere—passing through the location and the Kaaba.”

If only this was all they did that was bit odd or problematic.