Muslims Want World to Drop GMT and Adopt ‘Mecca Time’
More proof that Muslims think the world revolves around them..
H/T – Warner
Muslim call to adopt Mecca time
By Magdi Abdelhadi
BBC Arab affairs analyst
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.
What a crock! Yemen and Oman are closer to a zero degree magnetic declination than Saudi Arabia – Here, let me provide you with a magnetic declination map:
If anyone has a claim to a near perfect magnetic alignment, it would have to be the Americas with a Zero degree magnetic declination line neatly running from North to South…
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.
By force? Gee, I must have missed the GMT War in my history book…
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.
Maybe if Mecca was sucked into the bowels of the Earth, then, and only then, would it be the ‘true centre of the Earth.’
The meeting also reviewed what has been described as a Mecca watch, the brainchild of a French Muslim.
The watch is said to rotate anti-clockwise and is supposed to help Muslims determine the direction of Mecca from any point on Earth.
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.
Just about every “scientific truth” in the Qur’an has been proven false, just like the prophet…
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.
In other words, the Qur’an is a mess when it comes to science…’
22 April, 2008 at 11:12 am
Since the late 19th century, the Prime Meridian at Greenwich has served as the co-ordinate base for the calculation of Greenwich Mean Time. Before this, almost every town in the world kept its own local time. There were no national or international conventions to set how time should be measured, or when the day would begin and end, or what the length of an hour might be. The worldwide need for an international time standard became imperative.
The Greenwich Meridian was chosen to be the Prime Meridian of the World in 1884. Forty-one delegates from 25 nations met in for the International Meridian Conference. By the end of the conference, Greenwich had won the prize of Longitude 0º by a vote of 22 in favour to 1 against (San Domingo), with two abstentions (France and Brazil).
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/conWebDoc.13496
22 April, 2008 at 11:12 am
Since the late 19th century, the Prime Meridian at Greenwich has served as the co-ordinate base for the calculation of Greenwich Mean Time. Before this, almost every town in the world kept its own local time. There were no national or international conventions to set how time should be measured, or when the day would begin and end, or what the length of an hour might be. The worldwide need for an international time standard became imperative.
The Greenwich Meridian was chosen to be the Prime Meridian of the World in 1884. Forty-one delegates from 25 nations met in for the International Meridian Conference. By the end of the conference, Greenwich had won the prize of Longitude 0º by a vote of 22 in favour to 1 against (San Domingo), with two abstentions (France and Brazil).
22 April, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Since Koranists are out of this world anyway I say let them live on Mecca time-different time for a different planet.
22 April, 2008 at 12:25 pm
“…The watch is said to rotate anti-clockwise…”
Muslim time running backward? How apropos…
22 April, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Well, the muslims use their own calendar so for them it’s the year 1428. In general they seem to behave as if the year were 1428. In another 600 years maybe their attitudes will catch up to today’s civilized world. Then again, the western world may become too complacent and in 600 years we would have adopted the backward muslim ways … after all, you can’t make any valid criticism of mohammedanism in public without idiots calling you racist … (as if muslims constituted a race – that’d be like being called racist for calling idiots idiots).
23 April, 2008 at 10:27 am
Of course, it’s well recognised that holy books of all origins are full of it … funny that the Qur’an shouldn’t be any different. Do you know that there are those who believe that God created everything virtually as it is now, barmy I know, but true!
23 April, 2008 at 3:01 pm
dan. 7:25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
26 But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.
23 April, 2008 at 4:21 pm
The Islamic clock rotates anti-clockwise because “they” circumambulate that way around the black stone. A (pseudo)-scientist explain it clearly on the following clip:
http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1349.htm
( Who was writing about IQ and diploma in the comments lately?)
Cookies by Martha Graham is a book inspired by God, not the Koran. The Koran is good only for fruitcakes…
23 April, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Oops I meant Martha Stewart not Graham
23 April, 2008 at 5:18 pm
TNR,
Oh… I see you’ve met ‘Amin…’
http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/fitna-english-version/#comment-47288
Yeah… I didn’t have the heart to tell him about my doctorate in physics, ’cause, quite obviously, as Amin corroborates, an education does not necessarily equate to a higher I.Q.
Cheers
23 April, 2008 at 7:49 pm
Set your clocks back fourteen hundred years folks.
Phew !!!!…….I’m bushed!…all that winding.
24 April, 2008 at 8:12 pm
I found two more videos of this Dr Al-Sayyid of the Egyptian National Research Center
In first one he explains that the black stone is a semi-conductor coming from outer space:
http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1085.htm
I read yesterday night that …..” in 930, the stone was removed and shattered by an Iraqi sect of Qarmatians, but the pieces were later returned. The pieces, sealed in pitch and held in place by silver wire, measure about 10 inches in diameter altogether and several feet high; they are venerated today in patched-together form.”….. on this page:
http://www.bible.ca/islam/islam-photos-islam-today.htm
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The second clip is about the centrality of Mecca as it has been proved by Neil Armstrong (by the way, some Muslims say that Armstrong heard a call to prayer while walking on the moon and converted after that….!!!!)
http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/545.htm
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24 May, 2008 at 8:05 pm
Just about every scientific claim in the Qur’an has been debunked, just like their Prophet?
Dawg, you need to stop looking at answer-islam and answering-christianity. Those sites are bad for your brain.
24 May, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Damon,
Not as much as Islam is…
But, I always find it interesting when someone tries to discredit something without providing any proof, and implies that I’m linking to a picayunish site, as if that is the only one out there…
Perhaps you missed the fact that I’m a physicist. I, too, could go (and have gone) point by point and discredit the Qur’an’s scientific accuracy; but, then Muslim apologists would say that I’m taking things out of context, I’m not reading it in Arabic, I’m full of shit, etc., etc.
It’s just not worth the effort. I can link numerous other exegetes on the web who have done a thorough job of dispelling the scientific accuracy of the Qur’an, if that would make you happy. But, something tells me it just won’t matter.
Cheers