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.
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The meeting also reviewed what has been described as a Mecca watch, the brainchild of a French Muslim.br>
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How about, they just become rediculousyer and rediculousyer. Reporting what they want or think is such a waste of news space. My advice, rerun Charlie Brown comics.
The audacity of Islamism.
I had the same thought.
Accordingly, maybe we should accept this decision--on the condition that we name the new time standard after Dante. ;)
(OK, if anyone doesn't get the reference:
(As presented in the Divine Comedy, the Inferno is a set of nine concentric circles, forming a kind of underground pit extending to the center of a round earth. At the bottom of the ninth circle, at center of the earth, is Satan--see Canto XXXIV. I remembered this when I read about Mecca being at the "center of the earth." ;)
(Muhammad himself appears in the eighth circle--see Canto XXVIII--and do you remember this 2006 thread, "Catholic magazine in Prophet cartoon row (DANTE VS. MUHAMMAD ALERT)"?. This mention alone is a good reason why I don't expect or fear that Muslim Scientists will hail my modest proposal.)
The meeting also reviewed what has been described as a Mecca watch, the brainchild of a French Muslim. The watch is said to rotate anti-clockwise
This HAS to be satire.
I'm say Mecca,
Mecca,
A song of you
Comes as sweet and clear
As moonlight through the dunes...
Other arms reach out to me,
Other eyes smile tenderly,
Still in peaceful dreams I see
The road leads back to you...
I said Mecca,
Ooh Mecca, no peace do I find,
Just an old sweet song
Keeps Mecca on my mind...
an entire Mecca thread without a mushroom cloud image?
How many muslims does it take to change a light bulb?
11. One to unscrew the bulb, 10 to praise Mohammad for inventing the light bulb.
ML/NJ
“I had a black muslim tell me that airplanes can’t fly over Mecca because there is no gravity there.”
If black holes pull everything in because of increased gravity...why is Mecca still on the map? It seems Mecca would float out into space because of the lack of gravity. Have I been flubberized or is this another of the Muslim truths that have no basis in fact.
“Delusions of grandeur.”
Don’t joke about it — more of their hallucinations are becoming acceptable in the cowardly West.
“MUSLIM SCIENTISTS”??????
Ain’t no such animal.
Mecca is nearly at 40° E. If for some crazy reason we moved the prime meridian there, the other side would be nearly at what we call 140° W, or close to most of the border between Alaska and the Yukon. If the "new" International Date Line adjusted similarly, it would have to make a huge jog in places, or else Alaska and Hawaii would be on the other side from most of the U.S. If the line didn't adjust similarly, then we'd have our current line somewhere around the new system's "140° E."
Also, the existing time zones, while not perfectly regular for practical and political reasons, are largely centered on longitudes like 0°, 15° (east or west), 30°, 45°, 60°, etc. As you can tell, roughly 40° E is not one of those longitudes. If the boundaries of time zones remained the same, the "open ocean" boundaries of time zones would stick out as irregularities. (Of course, if we go through the incredible and pointless inconvenience of shifting the prime meridian, we'd might as well shift the time zones too. :p)
Easy said when you don’t have all those pesky digital clocks to reset...
And another 10 to shout “Allah Akhbar” and shoot their AK-47s in the air.
The reason is that it is considered apostasy to pursue studies (theology, law, science) outside of the ideas in the Koran because it is “complete and perfect work”.
A timeline would be interesting, a kind of Decent of Man thing.
750: "Abu Abdallah Muhammad Ibn Musa Khawarizmi (780-850),"we call this unknown quantity, "Al Gebra, "The Heap".
750: Koran begins to appear.
1000: Advances in Chemistry( Alchemy) have ceased.
1500: "Grunt*. Food. Breed cousin. *Grunt* Kill. *Grunt* Heeheeh Infidel guts."
Perhaps because I’m sick at home with pneumonia, I can’t find humor here. This is a perfect metaphor for what the Islamic world wants to do with humanity. My response is somewhat similar to Bender’s famous rejoiner on “Futurama.”
Cheer up. If it’s still shiny, you can’t be that sick!
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