There have to be 19 images of the same GIF.
.... Just to get it right.
/sarc
Nelson Ha Ha!
Has anyone in the media ever referenced “The Holy City of Jerusalem”, or “The Holy City of Bethlehem”?
I watched this documentary a month or two ago. The most interesting piece of this is there’s a fair number of Islamic archeologist and scholars who are going through the data and the archeological evidence and also saying the same thing. Everything is adding up to - If we are to be historically accurate, we have Mecca in the wrong spot.
And at what point in history were Muslims forced to abandon Mecca so that such a switch could be a possibility?
To quote Hillary, “At this point , what difference does it make?”
the only thing we need to get right are the targeting coordinates.
The Kaaba (the big cubic pile of rocks in the middle of the Grand Mosque) used to have a squat, Buddha-like idol seated atop it. The circling of the Kaaba seven times that goes on as part of "Islamic" ritual is actually quite ancient and points to the worship of a different critter altogether. Also, up until the 19th century or thereabouts, the now-subsumed avenue leading up to the Kaaba was still showing the signs of the line of statues that, uh, lined the avenue. The last of the statues was destroyed less than 200 years ago, if memory serves.
I've yet to view the vid, and I didn't add the GGG keyword, but I'm going to ping this for fun, under the subheading "Oh So Mysteriouso".
I guess they’re all going to hell then.
When have the muzzies ever gotten it right?
The koran is a holy book. It is not, it is a hodgepodge of stories and sayings put together in illogical and unreadable fashion. Even Arabic scholars agree that 80% is unintelligible. The qa'ba is nothing but a rock with a few hundred names of allah on it, nothing more, yet is deserves veneration and the haj is made into a pillar of Islam. If it were to disappear, the entire religion would collapse. Phony prophet, phony book, phony rock, phony city, ergo: phony religion.
Reminds me of a Glencannon story I read in my youth in the Saturday Evening Post in which the unscrupulous Glencannon persuades a praying Malay (I think) that he’s pointed in the wrong direction and sells him a pocket compass at exorbitant price. I forget whether he leaves the Malay praying to magnetic north or not.
Have to recalibrate all those prayer mats w/ a built in compass. Business opportunity!
Yep - they are supposed to face straight down - that's where their "god" lives.
I am the Monarch of the Sea...
IIRC, originally Mad Mo’ wanted his followers to pray in the direction of Jerusalem.
They’re praying to a false god. Why would it be any surprise if they were praying in a false direction?
