Muslim call to adopt Mecca time

BBC NEWS ^ | Monday, 21 April 2008 | Magdi Abdelhadi

[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>

[steel_resolve]

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"

[AntiKev]

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

[Sax]

STOP! MeccaTime!

[theDentist]

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

[NativeNewYorker]

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

[Gorzaloon]

Muslim scientists

Hahahahha....Haw Haw haw.

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

[clee1]

Blow it out your arses, sheetheads.

[teacherwoes]

Now if THEY only had a brain!

[clee1]

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

[Tijeras_Slim]

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

[21twelve]

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.

[rbg81]

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

[colorado tanker]

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?

[engrpat]

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!

[infantrywhooah]

[Tijeras_Slim]

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.

[RepublitarianRoger2]

How about all of you idiots go see the TRUE center of the Earth?

[MrB]

Especially Dhimmi Carter.

[Calvin Locke]

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

[Man50D]

Bookmark for later.

[Prole]

Seriously, Mohammedans.

How the h*ll is the Flux Capacitor going to compute "Mecca Time" while the time machine is traveling at 88 miles per hour?

[contemplator]

I first thought this would be a scrappleface article. Sadly it wasn’t. The Islamic tendency to try to co-opt anything it comes in contact with and claim that it was Islamic to begin with is alive and well. Islam, which has wallowed in the 16th century for centuries is now trying to claim that science itself is Islamic and that the foundations of science have always been laid out in the Koran for all to see. Now that they’ve co-opted science itself, they are claiming that science has proven that Mecca is the center of the earth (I must have missed when that earthshaking conclusion was published in a true scientific review journal). Leave it to this deluded group to take this nonsense one step further to use this as justification that GMT should be moved (GMT is an arbitrary line to begin with, you shouldn’t need scientific ‘proof’ to try to move it). What will Islam try to take next? The Chinese new year? My instinct is to ask what is it about these people that makes them believe that others will accept such nonsense without skipping a beat? Well, the BBC didn’t question it in their article....

[weegee]

If Mecca is the center, then persons of all faiths and the absence of faith should be able to freely visit this muslim only under penalty of DEATH Islamic supremacist city.

[F15Eagle]

I knew it was coming, LOL

[trumandogz]

Living on Mecca time.
Living on Mecca time.
Gonna set my watch back to it
cause you know that Ive been through it.
Living on Mecca time.

[tacticalogic]

Why the hell should we adopt their time? Near as I can tell, they still think it’s 600 AD. They can’t even get a calendar to work right.

[TheBlueMax]

Did they say Macaca time? ;-)

[Snowyman]

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

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 and is supposed to help Muslims determine the direction of Mecca from any point on Earth.

OK , the anti clockwise part seems fairly consistent with Muslim logic..

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Da-da-da-da-da-da
Da-da-da-da-da-da
Da-da-da-da-da-da

Well . . .
Mecca in the mornin’
Mecca in the evenin’
Mecca at suppertime
Be my little Mecca
And love me all the time

Abdul in the mornin’
Achmed in the evenin’
Mecca at suppertime
So by my little Mecca
And I’ll face you all the time

Strap some bombs around me
And swear by stars above
Virginsll be mine forever
In a heaven of love

Mecca in the mornin’
Mecca in the evenin’
Mecca at suppertime
Be my little Mecca
I’ll face you all the time

[domenad]

The only thing I’d set to Mecca time is when to start the pork chops marinating.

[big'ol_freeper]

Center of the Earth....my hope is someday it is a crater. That’ll make it closer to the center of the Earth.

[cake_crumb]

You know, I never thought of it that way, but Hubby would also be facing East, LOL! Wait’ll I tell him that one, he’ll love it!

[reagan_fanatic]

Delusions of grandeur.

[reg45]

my hope is someday it is a crater

I was thinking "pig farm".

[MrB]

Actually, and I think this is generous, but the book “The Rise of Modern Science: Islam, China and the West” credits Islamic societies as developing nearly on par with other cultures until about 1200 AD.

The author did say that they significantly slowed their pace of development prior to this.

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”.

[cake_crumb]

"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."

Only if Mecca were situated in Earth's core. "Muslim scientist" is an oxymoron.

[rawcatslyentist]

my hope is someday it is a crater

I was thinking "pig farm".

How about a radioactive pig farm!

[cake_crumb]

"I had a black muslim tell me that airplanes can't fly over Mecca because there is no gravity there."

See?? "Muslim scientist" IS an oxymoron.

[DoughtyOne]

I am comforted to know that the Muslims don't want to take over the earth or change western civilization. /s

If we only new the full list of the things they would change, new year start/end, no Christmas or other Christian holidays, marriage as we know it, freedom for women as we know it, the ability to practice Christianity, our freedoms as we know them...

The U.S. Constitution would have to go.

Yep, let's just move as many of these people into our midst as we can, because it will not result in conflict over time. /s

Folks, as the muslim presence grows, their thought that their culture should dominate is only a matter of natural progression.

We are not talking about assimilation here.

If we believe in Christianity, then flooding our nation with non-believers becomes problematic. And with the cultural differences inherent, we're talking about serious trouble ahead IMO.

[informavoracious]

All in good time, my little dhimmis, all in good time...

SURRENDER INFIDEL

[cake_crumb]

"If we only new the full list of the things they would change, new year start/end, no Christmas or other Christian holidays, marriage as we know it, freedom for women as we know it, the ability to practice Christianity, our freedoms as we know them...

"The U.S. Constitution would have to go."

Sounds like Barack Hussein Obama's campaign platform.

[reg45]

How about a radioactive pig farm!

No. I don't want my Sausage McMuffin to glow.

[MrB]

The goal is the same, whether they are taking over a country through immigration and population, or violently invading.

The goal is worldwide sharia law, with unbelievers either living in dhimmitude or dead.

[skully]

Mecca is the middle of the world huh?? Geez and this is the culture that gave us Algebra & the concept of Zero.

Hey camel humpers: The earth is round, so anywhere can be the middle of the earth,,, all depends on where you start measuring from...Idiots!! You may now return to beheading and blowing up people who don't agree with the tenets of your religion of dirt.

[cake_crumb]

"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."

Post of the day!

[tacticalogic]

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”.

Refusing to pursue scientific inquiry because it might conflict with ancient religious texts is, IMHO, a really bad idea.

[brooklyn dave]

Let’s try siderial time.

[brooklyn dave]

Forget about Mecca Time I set my watch to MILLER TIME

[kalee]

Moslem scientists? I don’t think they exist.

[MrB]

Yeah, that’s why the Judeo-Christian cultures were/are able to pursue scientific enquiry, and still do, ethically.

Old texts aside, there are certain proscriptions that all humans know - like live vivisection, experimentation on humans, etc. We’ve done these things in history, but we all know they’re wrong.