"I'd buy that fer a riyal"
clinging
Muslim scientists [now *there’s* an oxymoron] 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.
This is where all those places who’ve put in footbaths institute a double clock rule.
...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.
*slap* goes the Victim Card…
The watch is said to rotate anti-clockwise and is supposed to help Muslims determine the direction of Mecca from any point on Earth.
An “anti-clockwise watch.” Perfect.
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.
Re-interpretation with agenda aforethought is not “miraculous;” it’s merely a demonstration of the staggeringly credulous.
You really gotta give us a heads up for these. I’m recovering from a nose full of coffee, resulting from unavoidable hysterical laughter.
Do a Google for Mr al-Qaradawy (also Qaradawi).
He speaks with forked tongue. Quotes from two sites:
#1 : Saykh Yusuf al-Qaradawi delivers the sermon. [to fellow Muslims, given over Qatar TV in 2002]...
Concluding, the imam prays to God: “O God, give us victory over your
enemies, the enemies of Islam. O God, protect us from their evils, weaken
them, wipe them out, destroy their power, and prevent them from committing
aggression against your servants. O God, destroy the aggressor,
treacherous Jews. O God, destroy the aggressor Americans. O God,
destroy the fanatic pagans. O God, destroy the tyrannical Crusaders.”#2: YOUSSEF AL QARADAWI: [given at an international conference in Qatar, also in 2002] ... I would like from this platform to make quite sure about one thing that the world seems to be engaged in, and that is the question of terrorism and violence, to say to you that we are against terrorism and violence. ... We condemn violence and we condemn terrorism ...
Posted by ZZMike on 04/22/08 at 04:42 PMhappy to oblige, ZZM!
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Posted by Claire on 04/22/08 at 07:44 PM
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