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Olde Tyme Religion
Police gaffe makes Muslims pray in wrong direction
2007-04-13
Aw, jeez...this is just sooooo embarrassing...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Dutch police station trying to help Muslim detainees face Mecca for their prayers painted arrows in cells pointing in the wrong direction.
Should've painted five arrows. Tell them it depends on what time of the day it is.
Muslims pray five times a day, facing east in the direction of Mecca. But the arrows in Segbroek pointed west."This is a really gigantic, stupid blunder," a police spokesman told the De Telegraaf.
And I'm not just saying that. Really, I'm not...
"The faulty compass marks have been immediately corrected. It is a mystery for us how this could have possibly happened".
A mystery, I tells ya! A mystery!!
All other police cells in the Dutch capital will soon get similar compass marks.
Planning on arresting a lot of our Muzzie friends are they?
Posted by:tu3031

#26  Wouldn't it be more accurate to paint the arrow on the wall pointing down (to hell....)?
Posted by: CrazyFool   2007-04-13 22:35  

#25  "why paint anything?"

Just... because, that's why.

Paint a small circle in the middle of the floor of each cell, with the instructions "BANG HEAD HERE".

Posted by: Dave D.   2007-04-13 22:11  

#24  Mitch H., was that wrong-facing mosque possibly pointed toward Jerusalem? I've heard that originally Mohammed had his followers praying toward Jerusalem, and only changed directions when the Jews refused to convert.

Y'all are just full of wonderful ideas today!
Posted by: trailing wife   2007-04-13 22:08  

#23  why paint anything? Fuck em Allah will guide them
Posted by: Frank G   2007-04-13 22:06  

#22  Paint the arrows in their cells all pointing in different, random directions. And when it drives them bugshit, adamantly REFUSE to do anything about it.

Posted by: Dave D.   2007-04-13 21:56  

#21  ALLLAHUoooops.
Posted by: OldSpook   2007-04-13 21:54  

#20  Haha, just got an idea for a new product.
Mecca compass, points toward Mecca from all over the world. It would be a real compass with the arrow above the face offset from the magnetic arrow below the face. You set the arrow at the point of sale, then sell a bunch, then go back to used cars.
Mecca Compass (TM) $50.00 each
Profits go to Allan's Snackbar boys school, void in Delaware.
Posted by: wxjames   2007-04-13 21:44  

#19  Or pig farm.
Posted by: Sgt. Mom   2007-04-13 18:16  

#18  Have the arrows point to the nearest Kosher delicatessen.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2007-04-13 17:59  

#17  I seem to remember from the articles about that "white raisins" guy that one of the datapoints for thinking that Mecca was actually some other place other than the current Mecca was that one of the earliest mosques in southern Iraq was discovered to have originally been oriented in the wrong direction to have been facing Mecca - too far north, or something like that.

My opinion at the time was that it was more likely an ignorant seventh-century architect who just got the direction wrong, but one of the white-raisins guys wanted to build a grand conspiracy theory about eighth or ninth century caliphs eradicating evidence of the "real Mecca".
Posted by: Mitch H.   2007-04-13 17:25  

#16  Silly rabbit, trix are for kufrs!
Posted by: Seafarious   2007-04-13 15:58  

#15  After I'm done laughing at the spokesman's apologies, please remind me to file this under: "Who Gives A World Class Shit?"

Accommodating the selective needs of prisoners is simply ridiculous. If they wanted to be sure of praying correctly, stay the FUCK out of prison. Similarly, if they're so concerned about eating halal food, don't get incarcerated. Prison is supposed to be a form of punishment, not limitless molly-coddling. If it were a tad more unpleasant, instead of being akin to a MME (Muslim Middle East) three star hotel, then maybe people would avoid doing things that got them imprisoned in the first place. Any chance that Jewish prisoners are informed of when the first star appears during Sabbath? No wine or wafers on Sunday for the Catholic jailbirds? Oh, the fucking humanity!

Worst of all is how this sort of appeasment merely triggers successive levels of increased Muslim entitlement and decreases the threshold of where their endless sensitivities kick in. Until we start kicking Islamic butt so regularly that you can set your watch by it, be prepared to see even more outrageous demands for preferential treatment.
Posted by: Zenster   2007-04-13 15:57  

#14  The world is a globe, there is a pretty good chance that the arrow still more or less points to Mecca, just the long way around.

rj, I don't think Columbus had made his voyage yet when Mo made up that rule. But you'd think if he was so holy he'd have known anyway.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2007-04-13 15:54  

#13  Imagine if the arrows, when you look real close, are really made up of tiny little pictures of the Hindu god Ganesh
Posted by: John Frum   2007-04-13 15:51  

#12  OK, people, I'm really upset now. I was on my way to lunch, waiting for the elevator, and when the elevator door opens two "persons" in black burkas walked out of it. Only their eyes were showing. My heard skipped a beat because it was truly starting. They could have been two cobras and my reaction would have been the same. I decided I could take the stairs. I'm sorry but in my culture that kind of outfit means only one of two things: (1) it's Halloween or (2) they're getting ready to rob a bank.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2007-04-13 15:42  

#11  Police gaffe makes Muslims pray in wrong direction

when in doubt

paint arrow pointing to the nearest --->> Pedophile
Posted by: RD   2007-04-13 15:32  

#10  I just hope the crappers are facing the right way.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2007-04-13 14:50  

#9  give the man who painted the arrows a medal
Posted by: sinse   2007-04-13 14:19  

#8  The world is a globe, there is a pretty good chance that the arrow still more or less points to Mecca, just the long way around.

I always wondered how the few Muslims that went up into space managed. With a 90 minute orbit you'd need to pray quick or shift a bit between each bow or you'd be facing the wrong way pretty darn quick.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2007-04-13 14:14  

#7  A cop's a cop. the humor is the same.
Posted by: Xenophon   2007-04-13 14:07  

#6  This will be getting some serious scrutiny by Amnesia international and the Useless nations soon.
in the meantime: pay raises to all the Dutch involved.
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2007-04-13 14:01  

#5  Nope. Towards Tsahal's headquarters?
Posted by: JFM   2007-04-13 13:55  

#4  
Praying towards the Vatican??
Posted by: macofromoc   2007-04-13 13:44  

#3  Screw the arrows Muzzies, just face the toilet.
Posted by: Icerigger   2007-04-13 13:34  

#2  Hey Achmed - The virgins are over T-H-A-Y-A-R-R-R-E .......
Posted by: Lone Ranger   2007-04-13 13:13  

#1  AAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

They are all going to hell now for praying in the wrong direction!
Posted by: DarthVader   2007-04-13 12:49  

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