April 21, 2008
Muslim scientists and clerics: It's time for Mecca Time
They want to replace Greenwich Mean Time with Mecca Time, since, after
all,
as everyone knows, Mecca is the center of the earth.
And then the noble mujahedin can sing this song to the dirty kuffar:
When it's time to relax
One thing stands clear:
If you've got the time
We've got the bier!
Cultural Supremacism Alert: "Muslim call to adopt Mecca time," by Magdi
Abdelhadi for BBC News (thanks to all who sent this in):
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.
Mecca is the direction all Muslims face when they perform their daily
prayers.
The call was issued at a conference held in the Gulf state of Qatar
under
the title: Mecca, the Centre of the Earth, Theory and Practice.
One geologist argued that unlike other longitudes, Mecca's was in
perfect
alignment to magnetic north.
He said the English had imposed GMT on the rest of the world by force
when
Britain was a big colonial power, and it was about time that changed.
Mecca watch
A prominent cleric, Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawy, said modern science had
at
last provided evidence that Mecca was the true centre of the Earth; proof,
he said, of the greatness of the Muslim "qibla" - the Arabic word for the
direction Muslims turn to when they pray....
The meeting in Qatar is part of a popular trend in some Muslim societies
of seeking to find Koranic precedents for modern science.
It is called "Ijaz al-Koran", which roughly translates as the
"miraculous
nature of the holy text".
The underlying belief is that scientific truths were also revealed in
the
Muslim holy book, and it is the work of scholars to unearth and publicise
the textual evidence.
But the movement is not without its critics, who say that the notion
that
modern science was revealed in the Koran confuses spiritual truth, which
is
constant, and empirical truth, which depends on the state of science at
any
given point in time.
Gee, ya think?
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