Saudis Hope Giant Clock Will Set 'Mecca Time' (It's Mecca Time)

Yahoo News ^ | 8/10/2010 | Yahoo News

[Dallas59]

Muslims around the world could be setting their watches to a new time soon when the world's largest clock begins ticking atop a soaring skyscraper in Islam's holiest city of Mecca.

Saudi Arabia hopes the four faces of the new clock, which will loom over Mecca's Grand Mosque from what is expected to be the world's second tallest building, will establish Mecca as an alternate time standard to the Greenwich median.

The clock is targeted to enter service with a three-month trial period in the first week of the holy month of Ramadan on or about August 12, according to the Saudi state news agency SPA.

[Dallas59]

Hammer Time

[La Lydia]

There is a fine one here:

http://shiitehappens.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/bomb_mecca450.jpg

[DBrow]

All our maps would be obsolete. If adopted by the UN, then an airplane arriving from a Mecca clock compliant country would be using charts based on a different meridian.

The time issue is nothing compared to the full implications of moving our standard for world navigation.

[La Lydia]

Good one! Scattered Shiites.

[Dallas59]

Bammy may get this implemented ASAP....He’s already got NASA working to make them “feel good”....

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Not impressed at all.......

[DTogo]

A nice tall “bulls eye” to aim the nuke-tipped cruise missile at...

[PATRIOT1876]

*The clock will run backwards until it reaches the 12th century when it will once again be correct.*

Very good!

[a fool in paradise]

Saudi Arabia hopes the four faces of the new clock, which will loom over Mecca's Grand Mosque from what is expected to be the world's second tallest building, will establish Mecca as an alternate time standard to the Greenwich median.

Seeing as Mecca is a segregated city with the discriminatory policy of EXECUTING any non-muslim who'd dare enter, I say HELL NO to Islamic Imperialism.

Where are the "moderate" muslims who say that none of this reflects upon them? They ALL bow to Mecca 5 times a day every day and never speak out. It's the capital of their fricking global empire.

[a fool in paradise]

If you put a clock at the top of the second tallest building in the world, how is anyone going to be able to read what time it is?

[bmwcyle]

This could be NYC in 10 years.

[a fool in paradise]

Since Mecca is an Islamic supremacist paradise (no sub-human kufir permitted), will they also be calling for the smiting of kufir who gaze upon the global Mecca clock?

[DBrow]

You make the clock faces HUGH!

[Charles Martel]

Note the crossed scimitars, always a popular image with the Religion of Peace.

[DManA]

Kind of reminds me of Moscow University

http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&source=imghp&biw=1440&bih=710&q=moscow+university&gbv=2&aq=f&aqi=g1&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

[Colorado Cowgirl]

Mecca time: that means you are in the shit hole of the world, and I’m glad it’s 7653 miles away from Denver Colorado. It’s far enough away I can’t smell it!

[a fool in paradise]

If some non-muslim flies a plane into that building and destroys it, will Buddhists, Christians, Jews, Hindus, and Scientologists, Satanists, Randians, Rastas... be permitted to construct a worship place within Mecca to express tolerance for followers of Islam and victims of the attack?

[DManA]

Does anybody really know what time it is
In Mecca
Does anybody really care
care
If so I can’t imagine why
about time
We’ve all got time enough to die
Oh no, no

[a fool in paradise]

Either that or a Judge will rule that we must use Sharia time with all muslim’s or activities they are involved in.

If muslims are going to argue that point, then they will be waking up in the middle of the night for their first call to prayer and staying up until our sun rises over here.

[a fool in paradise]

All our maps would be obsolete. If adopted by the UN, then an airplane arriving from a Mecca clock compliant country would be using charts based on a different meridian. The time issue is nothing compared to the full implications of moving our standard for world navigation.

If Mohammed won't go to the mountain that you bring it to the Mohammedians.