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Police gaffe makes Muslims pray in wrong direction
Reuters ^ | April 13, 2007

Posted on 04/14/2007 8:34:16 AM PDT by EveningStar

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Dutch police station trying to help Muslim detainees face Mecca for their prayers painted arrows in cells pointing in the wrong direction...

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To: EveningStar

Well? They’re still facing Mecca...just the other way around.


41 posted on 04/14/2007 9:02:28 AM PDT by RichInOC ("Stampeding hogs." "That's not much of a crime." "Through the Grand Mosque?" "Kinky. Sign here.")
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To: EveningStar

Hey, Mac, which way to Mecca?


42 posted on 04/14/2007 9:06:13 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets ("We will have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.")
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To: InvisibleChurch

That is true if one assumes the earth is round. Of course the importance of Muslims having to pray in the correct direction (toward Mecca) wasprobably instituted by mullahs who thought the world was flat and there was only one option for direction.


43 posted on 04/14/2007 9:07:44 AM PDT by rod1 (uake)
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To: Non-Sequitur

I know! Give that cop a medal! :)


44 posted on 04/14/2007 9:09:29 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: jazusamo
“a fatwa will be issued for the Dutch police?”

You think there is actually a group that they haven’t issued one of their Fat-Wahs against? I doubt it. Who keeps track of those things anyway? Is there a Fat-Wah board that dates and numbers them, perhaps stamps them accomplished at some point?

45 posted on 04/14/2007 9:13:42 AM PDT by pepperdog (This world has gone crazy!)
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To: EveningStar

Once we destroy Mecca and ban Islam, the issue will be moot.


46 posted on 04/14/2007 9:15:57 AM PDT by Hugin (Mecca delenda est.)
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To: Gondring

Yes, there was a question. Without knowing how they figured it out, I would assume the direction would be forward in the direction of the orbit although it isn’t a major issue in reality. The time of the prayer has apparently been resolved with a PDA program.


47 posted on 04/14/2007 9:17:54 AM PDT by RightWhale (3 May '07 3:14 PM)
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To: KJC1

“Bowing to the west...”

Hmmmmm.....if they were bowing to the west, what exactly might they have been pointing at Mecca?


48 posted on 04/14/2007 9:18:06 AM PDT by wgflyer (Liberalism is to society what HIV is to the immune system.)
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To: EveningStar
A Dutch police station trying to help...
The Segbroek police station in The Hague borrowed the idea

Things like this always happen when you allow the station, rather than those who work in it, to make decisions.

49 posted on 04/14/2007 9:19:49 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.)
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To: rod1

The quran actually teaches that the earth is flat and some “scholars” in Saudi still teach this. However since the earth is round you can face any direction and still draw a direct line to Mecca or any other place.


50 posted on 04/14/2007 9:20:15 AM PDT by Albertafriend
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To: TheBattman

No, you’re not the only one, I’m still laughing.


51 posted on 04/14/2007 9:20:43 AM PDT by fishergirl (My warrior, my soldier, my hero - my son. God bless our troops!)
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To: EveningStar

well the world is pretty much a sphere so one direction or 180 off it you end up facing the same place.


52 posted on 04/14/2007 9:22:19 AM PDT by Murtyo
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To: EveningStar

then what exactly is the Netherlands?


53 posted on 04/14/2007 9:23:21 AM PDT by Murtyo
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To: EveningStar

From now on all muslim prisoners will be required by law to be issued GPS devices. Otherwise it would clearly be a total disregard to their civil rights.


54 posted on 04/14/2007 9:23:32 AM PDT by Cuchulain ("...never treat with the enemy; never surrender to his mercy, but fight to the finish.")
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To: EveningStar
Yeah. Which is why I said:

They’re a tiny country anyway; allowing all these crazies in is just asking for trouble.
55 posted on 04/14/2007 9:23:41 AM PDT by billybudd
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To: Mrs.Z
The true direction of their prayers is down.

LOL! You've got that right. ;o)

56 posted on 04/14/2007 9:24:01 AM PDT by NRA2BFree (Duncan Hunter for President *08 - A genuine "Reagan Republican" for America!)
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To: beckaz
This calls for major media coverage and major reparations. (/sarc)

And when do weeks for apoligies begin...

57 posted on 04/14/2007 9:24:14 AM PDT by Joe Bfstplk (What you said is exactly what you intended to say.)
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To: EveningStar

I’m surprised they even put Muslims in jail.


58 posted on 04/14/2007 9:24:55 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: 4yearlurker
I’ll bet they don’t even know the color of the prophet’s eyes.

Red, where do I pick up my prize?

Regards,
GtG

59 posted on 04/14/2007 9:30:07 AM PDT by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
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To: rod1

No doubt you’re right, but sometimes I think they do things like that JUST to be difficult... kind of like our liberal pals.


60 posted on 04/14/2007 9:32:59 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch (Forty on the highway, forty in the driveway.)
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