Saudi mosques 'not facing Mecca'

AKI - Adnkronos International ^ | 27 July | staff

[citizencon]

Heads will roll...literally...

[rogue yam]

There’s just not one thing the Arabs consistently get right.

[Hoosier-Daddy]

Like you know, for goodness sake.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Would rather believe in a GOD that may or may not exist than bypass a GOD that does exist and spend eternity in Hell..

What if you choose the wrong god? Seems to me in that case this god will be a little more favorably disposed toward me than you.

If you are right, so what.

If I'm right, I've spent an entire lifetime not worrying about aiming my head at Mecca and performing the thousands of other rituals apparently needed to keep gods happy. I've got enough real things to worry about.

[Pontiac]

Gosh, I’m so happy that I serve a GOD that doesn’t care which way I’m facing when I pray to HIM. All he cares about is that I pray.

Well the Muslim’s God is a rock and rocks are notorious for their inferiority complexes. They demand that you be looking at them or at least in their direction when praying.

Other wise they feel you don’t respect them. (hey its a rock after all)

[Allan]

The Dome on the Rock in Jerusalem does not face Mecca either.
It was built before the Koran was written
and the myth of Mohammed was invented.

[Beckwith]

This cartoon overlooks the fact that Mecca is off-limits to kaffir (infidels).

It is not possible to visit Mecca because of the controls of the Religious Police. These policemen watch that you observe the Sharia and all other Muslim rules, otherwise they can punish you or expel you from Arabia.

They ask for Muslim documents to visit these places.

[seemoAR]

I wonder what would happen if a pig farmer or a pork processor was located between the mosque and mecca. Would they be praying to a hog?.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

[Scotswife]

“So mosques can’t get themselves pointed in the direction that Allah demands, unless the imams use the services of evil capitalist infidels to figure out which way Mecca is? Oh my, they’ve got themselves in a quandary here. How to explain to the faithful that the mosque must be re-positioned according to directions provided by evil capitalist infidels? And if this is the only way to get the mosque pointed the right way, could they possibly have been mistaken about the need to exterminate infidels and western capitalism?”

Good point!
If they’re so tight with Allah why couldn’t they have figured this out a long time ago?

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Back to the old drawing board.

[southernnorthcarolina]

Possibly things weren’t so tight back in 1938 when Peter Arno drew the cartoon.

[Beckwith]

It’s always been that way — especially since the Family of Saud became indebted to the Wahabbis.