Saudis Want 'Mecca Time' to Replace GMT

aolnews ^ | 08/11/2010 | Lauren Frayer

[LonelyCon]

For centuries, an astronomy observatory in Greenwich, London -- the namesake of Greenwich Mean Time -- has been the reference point for lines of longitude, ships' navigation on the world's seas and the time zones used today.

But Saudi Arabia wants to change that. It's building what it calls the largest clock in the world, atop the second-largest skyscraper in the world, in the Islamic holy city of Mecca -- in hopes of replacing GMT with "Mecca Time."

The clock dwarfs London's Big Ben, with four huge faces each about 130 feet in diameter and inscribed with the Arabic words "God is greatest." Only one of the clock's faces has been completed so far, covered with 98 million pieces of glass mosaics. Details were first released by the Saudi official news agency and picked up by several foreign media.

It's still under construction atop a nearly 2,000-foot-tall building overlooking Mecca's Grand Mosque, the point where Muslims around the world turn toward during their five daily prayers. Millions of faithful visit the site as part of the Muslim hajj voyage and other pilgrimages each year.

"We in Mecca hope to be the world's central time zone, and not just have a clock to look at, to show off," Mecca resident Hani al-Wajeeh told Agence France-Presse.

"Putting Mecca time in the face of Greenwich Mean Time, this is the goal," Mohammed Al-Arkubi, general manager of Royal Makkah Tower Hotel, told the Arab News, a Saudi newspaper.

[LonelyCon]

[dfwgator]

In a related story, people in Hell want ice water.

[rahbert]

why not Miller Time?

[Personal Responsibility]

And I want a warehouse full of gold. We all want things.

[2banana]

Remember - infidles are not allowed in the city of mecca to see the moon rock...

[Yo-Yo]

[2banana]

ps - wonder if a plane can be flown into it?

[Sir Gawain]

Die already.

[texmexis best]

Cargo Cult. Build the world’s biggest clock and everyone will start using Mecca time.

[musicman]

"Saudis Want 'Mecca Time' to Replace GMT"

[wilco200]

Mecca time = GMT minus 6000 years

[dfwgator]

Make it Suntory Time.

[Sir Gawain]

Predator drone would work. I can’t wait for the New Templars to form and get started cleaning the trash.

[Ammo Republic 15]

But what would Admiral Boom say about this?

[Joe 6-pack]

I prefer this one...

[Tolsti2]

Sure is gaudy, looks like a casino to me.

[dfwgator]

I want a pony.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

These people have only the most cursory understanding of time keeping and timescales.

It’s a sick joke.

[a fool in paradise]

Only one of the clock's faces has been completed so far, covered with 98 million pieces of glass mosaics

We are told some muslims resort to terrorism because they are a poor people.

We are told that it has nothing to do with global conquest.

Except there are those swords of "peaceful" submission and the whole world should switch our reference points to the segregated city of Mecca (a standing death penalty for any sub-human kufir who'd dare enter).

[The_Media_never_lie]

Saudis Want 'Mecca Time' to Replace GMT

Clocks run backward on Mecca Time.

[andy58-in-nh]

[a fool in paradise]

ps - wonder if a plane can be flown into it?

If there is, will Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, Scientologist, Satanists, Randians, Pagans, and Atheists be able to set up educational centers in Mecca to express "tolernace"?

[Candor7]

I think we should use Rocky Mountain MT, using the Livermore Atomic clock...much more accurate than the 5 calls to prayer that the Mushstaffa Mullah Dingbats use.

[oneamericanvoice]

Good luck with that. About the time that pigs fly. But then I’ve seen stranger.

[Solitar]

Nuke Mecca and it will be set back even further than 6000 years.

We gotta stop these barbarians before they send us all back thousands of years.

[a fool in paradise]

It IS a really big clock after all.

Perhaps this calls for some kind of secret weapon, like a really big shoe!

[marron]

I propose Miami time as the world standard. No one really cares what time it is in Mecca. Seriously.

[dfwgator]

It’s always 5 O’Clock somewhere.

[Paladin2]

Shouldn’t sharia time have 11.5 hours/day? How infidelistic to use Roman numerals and the 24 hr day.

[Da Coyote]

That’ll be easy - the Mecca clock is stuck on AD (that’s as in Anno Domine - GOD for you muzzies) 600.

[Category Four]

What’s Arabic for “Get bent”?

[ElkGroveDan]

...and I want a pony.

[True_Kon]

LOL!

[FlingWingFlyer]

This is a great (and funny) thread! The American spirit still lives in spite of Barack Hussein Obama!

[Scythian]

I'm thinking of going to this place and handing out Christian track's, would that be bad?

[Red Badger]

Saudis Want ‘Mecca Time’ to Replace GMT

GMT to mean Goat Me Time?................

[dfwgator]

Maybe they’ll name the clock “Big Bin.”

[Stormdog]

What’s Arabic for “Get bent”?

Fuqwa youssef

[dfwgator]

What’s Arabic for “Get bent”?

Bakka lakka dakka dirka dirka Muhammad Jihad.

[Red Badger]

Shouldn’t that sign say “Makakah”?..........

[dfwgator]

George Allen, is that you?

[MamaTexan]

Saudis Want 'Mecca Time' to Replace GMT,

And I want the Saudis to admit it's the spawn of their country that brought down the Twin Towers.

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These fools can kiss my grits....

AND ham!

[andy58-in-nh]

Big Bin

I like that. I really like that. ;-)

[firebrand]

I see.

Astronomical observatory = big ol’ clock with mosaic tile face.

They’ll show us, by golly.

[gop4lyf]

“And he (the Anti-Christ) shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the
most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a
time and times and the dividing of time.” (Daniel 7:25, KJV)

So they want to change time huh? The Anti-Christ will be a muslim, mark my word!

[equalitybeforethelaw]

I think what they are missing is that they are constructing a clock, which was invented by Christians, on a time scale discovered by pagans, whose design was created by Europeans, and engineered by Europeans. So its like they buy a fancy Rolex and they think they accomplished something. Shoosh, hey abdul, go to any pawn shop and pick out a Rolex, it still keeps non-moooslum time.

[b4its2late]

Hani al-Wajeeh

How can anyone take this seriously. I can't get past the dudes name....

Hanialwahgee......

[Bringbackthedraft]

WOW, it looks like Rockefeller Center. They’re skating around the Arabic Cube?

[equalitybeforethelaw]

“They’re skating around the Arabic Cube?”

The funny thing is their cube is pre-islamic. Kind of like us having a Christian revival at Stonehenge.

[TomServo]

Saudis Want 'Mecca Time' to Replace GMT

I have a better idea...how about "Nuke Mecca Time".