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Muslim call to adopt Mecca time
BBC NEWS ^ | Monday, 21 April 2008 | Magdi Abdelhadi

Posted on 04/21/2008 1:24:35 PM PDT by steel_resolve

Muslim scientists and clerics have called for the adoption of Mecca time to replace GMT, arguing that the Saudi city is the true centre of the Earth.

...SNIP...

The meeting also reviewed what has been described as a Mecca watch, the brainchild of a French Muslim.br>

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


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So many jokes here...how about

Abdul "Is it time to blow ourselves up?"

Mohammed "Hold on Abdul. Let me check my MeccaWatch. When the tail of the camel strikes 12, THEN it will be time to kill the nonbelievers"
1 posted on 04/21/2008 1:24:35 PM PDT by steel_resolve
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To: steel_resolve

Notwithstanding the fact that the prime meridian is arbitrarily placed where it is due to historical events, this is ridiculous.


2 posted on 04/21/2008 1:26:47 PM PDT by AntiKev ("The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena." - Carl Sagan)
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To: steel_resolve
STOP! MeccaTime!

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3 posted on 04/21/2008 1:28:04 PM PDT by Sax
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To: steel_resolve

There already is a Mecca Time. Any eve I wake up and need to relieve my bladder, I step into the bathroom, point in
the direction of Mecca, and wizzz away


4 posted on 04/21/2008 1:28:24 PM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: steel_resolve

...stopped reading after 2nd word of story...


5 posted on 04/21/2008 1:29:10 PM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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To: steel_resolve
Muslim scientists

Hahahahha....Haw Haw haw.

Oh, stop it..you're ..ummm...Killing Me.

6 posted on 04/21/2008 1:29:51 PM PDT by Gorzaloon
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To: steel_resolve

Blow it out your arses, sheetheads.


7 posted on 04/21/2008 1:30:11 PM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: steel_resolve
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Now if THEY only had a brain!

8 posted on 04/21/2008 1:31:01 PM PDT by teacherwoes (vote for the greatest evil--Cthulu/Hillary '08)
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To: steel_resolve

The “true” center of the Earth is any point you choose along the equator. So much for sheethead “science”.


9 posted on 04/21/2008 1:31:37 PM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: steel_resolve

“The big sword is on the 5, and the little sword is on the 2...”


10 posted on 04/21/2008 1:32:15 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Play that Funky Music Typical White Boy!)
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To: steel_resolve

I could almost go with the change in time. But I’ll put my foot down when they want to turn the calendar back to 760 AD.


11 posted on 04/21/2008 1:33:19 PM PDT by 21twelve (Don't wish for peace. Pray for Victory.)
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To: steel_resolve

How long before Muslims worldwide start rioting to make this happen? And he Dhimmis will fall all over themselves to accomodate.


12 posted on 04/21/2008 1:33:27 PM PDT by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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To: steel_resolve
I had to check to see if this was one of the Beeb's infamous April Fools jokes, but no the dateline is today.

You just can't make this stuff up, can you?

13 posted on 04/21/2008 1:33:33 PM PDT by colorado tanker (Number nine, number nine, number nine . . .)
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To: steel_resolve
Now hold on. I had a black muslim tell me that airplanes can't fly over Mecca because there is no gravity there. So that must be the place to start time!
14 posted on 04/21/2008 1:33:46 PM PDT by engrpat
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To: steel_resolve
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15 posted on 04/21/2008 1:34:18 PM PDT by infantrywhooah
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To: engrpat
I had a black muslim tell me that airplanes can't fly over Mecca because there is no gravity there.

No gravity, but it sure does suck.

16 posted on 04/21/2008 1:34:45 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Play that Funky Music Typical White Boy!)
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To: steel_resolve
How about all of you idiots go see the TRUE center of the Earth?
17 posted on 04/21/2008 1:35:08 PM PDT by RepublitarianRoger2
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To: rbg81

Especially Dhimmi Carter.


18 posted on 04/21/2008 1:35:21 PM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: AntiKev

Even the French came to their senses, and gave up on Paris long ago...


19 posted on 04/21/2008 1:36:18 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: steel_resolve

Bookmark for later.


20 posted on 04/21/2008 1:36:21 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
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