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2007-04-13 Olde Tyme Religion

Police gaffe makes Muslims pray in wrong direction

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Posted by tu3031 2007-04-13 12:05|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 AAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

They are all going to hell now for praying in the wrong direction!

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-04-13 12:49|| 2007-04-13 12:49|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2007-04-13 13:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Screw the arrows Muzzies, just face the toilet.

Posted by Icerigger">Icerigger 2007-04-13 13:34|| 2007-04-13 13:34|| Front Page Top

#4
Praying towards the Vatican??

Posted by macofromoc 2007-04-13 13:44|| 2007-04-13 13:44|| Front Page Top

#5 Nope. Towards Tsahal's headquarters?

Posted by JFM">JFM 2007-04-13 13:55|| 2007-04-13 13:55|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2007-04-13 14:01|| Front Page Top

#7 A cop's a cop. the humor is the same.

Posted by Xenophon">Xenophon 2007-04-13 14:07|| 2007-04-13 14:07|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2007-04-13 14:14|| Front Page Top

#9 give the man who painted the arrows a medal

Posted by sinse 2007-04-13 14:19|| 2007-04-13 14:19|| Front Page Top

#10 I just hope the crappers are facing the right way.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2007-04-13 14:50|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2007-04-13 14:50|| Front Page Top

#11 Police gaffe makes Muslims pray in wrong direction

when in doubt

paint arrow pointing to the nearest --->> Pedophile

Posted by RD">RD 2007-04-13 15:32|| 2007-04-13 15:32|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2007-04-13 15:42|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2007-04-13 15:51|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2007-04-13 15:54|| Front Page Top

#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">Zenster 2007-04-13 15:57|| 2007-04-13 15:57|| Front Page Top

#16 Silly rabbit, trix are for kufrs!

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2007-04-13 15:58|| 2007-04-13 15:58|| Front Page Top

#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.">Mitch H. 2007-04-13 17:25|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2007-04-13 17:25|| Front Page Top

#18 Have the arrows point to the nearest Kosher delicatessen.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2007-04-13 17:59|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2007-04-13 17:59|| Front Page Top

#19 Or pig farm.

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2007-04-13 18:16|| www.ncobrief.com]">[www.ncobrief.com] 2007-04-13 18:16|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2007-04-13 21:44|| Front Page Top

#21 ALLLAHUoooops.

Posted by OldSpook 2007-04-13 21:54|| 2007-04-13 21:54|| Front Page Top

#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.">Dave D. 2007-04-13 21:56|| 2007-04-13 21:56|| Front Page Top

#23 why paint anything? ~~Fuck em~~ Allah will guide them

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-04-13 22:06|| 2007-04-13 22:06|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2007-04-13 22:08|| Front Page Top

#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.">Dave D. 2007-04-13 22:11|| 2007-04-13 22:11|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2007-04-13 22:35|| Front Page Top

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