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Europe
A cell phone that points to Mecca
2005-10-09
Via Israelly Cool:
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - For Muslims, it's a high-tech call to prayer. A new cellular telephone generates five automated reminders a day at prayer time and points Muslims in the direction of Mecca. It also contains a copy of the Islamic holy book, the Quran, in both Arabic and English. Already available in the Middle East and Asia, Ilkone — Arabic for universe — recently went on sale in the Netherlands for its European debut. It will be followed by launches in France, Germany, Italy, Denmark, Belgium and Bosnia in coming months, said Peter Suyk, the managing director of Lebara BV, the phone's European distributor.

Some Muslims were skeptical.

"I wouldn't buy one," said 15-year-old Mohammed Bouyeri, sitting outside Rotterdam's largest mosque, the Mevlana.
I note the AP reporter either doesn't know or doesn't care that he's talking to a fifteen year-old punk lounging outside a mosque and pretending his name is the name of Theo Van Gogh's killer. If AP sent a lady reporter he would have spat on her and refused to even look at her. Punk ass kid. Dipshit "journalist". Bah.
"It might be useful for someone at home or traveling, but not at the mosque. Everyone here already knows what time prayers are."
Posted by:Seafarious

#1  I think that this cell phone is ripe for some dastardly clever countermeasures, just for an innocent source of merriment, ya know.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2005-10-09 22:08  

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