Muslim call to adopt Mecca time
22-04-2008, 11:28
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Re: Muslim call to adopt Mecca time
I wonder if Mecca time will have a daylight savings option..
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22-04-2008, 12:03
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It's perfectly possible to be racist against one particular race (although as noted earlier, Islam is a religion) and be fine with others.
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I think a lot of people forget that anyone can be racist - it's not solely a white thing - I know Indians that are racist to black people, muslims.
I know black people that are racist to Nigerians.
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22-04-2008, 12:40
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Well, Not me. I have LOADS of white friends
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ah but do you have a ginger friend 
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22-04-2008, 12:58
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22-04-2008, 13:17
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22-04-2008, 13:23
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Re: Muslim call to adopt Mecca time
Oh, Nugget, Xaccers says you have no friends..
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22-04-2008, 14:18
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Re: Muslim call to adopt Mecca time
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I thought he employed them?
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22-04-2008, 14:30
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22-04-2008, 15:12
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Re: Muslim call to adopt Mecca time
The video interview says it was filmed Dec 26, 2006. And the BBC is only now writing an article on it? When did they switch to SNDT (Slow News Day Time)?
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22-04-2008, 15:18
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Re: Muslim call to adopt Mecca time
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The video interview says it was filmed Dec 26, 2006. And the BBC is only now writing an article on it? When did they switch to SNDT (Slow News Day Time)?
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Yes, but the conference in which the call was made was held on April 21, 2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecca_Time
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The Mecca Time concept asserts that Mecca, the holiest city of Islam located in Saudi Arabia, is the true center of the Earth, and thus should replace the Greenwich Meridian (GMT). The demand was made by Muslim scientists and clerics meeting in Doha, Qatar on April 21, 2008 for a conference titled "Mecca: the Center of the Earth, Theory and Practice."[1] The conference sought to promote "Ijaz al-Koran" - the belief and growing trend amongst Muslims that the Koran, the central Islamic religious text reveals many scientific facts.[2]
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22-04-2008, 15:56
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Re: Muslim call to adopt Mecca time
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Ah, I missed that, thanks! (The BBC article doesn't have the date of the conference noted.) Makes more sense now.
If Mecca is now in perfect alignment with the magnetic north, what's going to happen if/when the magnetic north pole shifts again? Will they adjust Mecca time accordingly? Could they even do that, given that this would mean that Mecca would presumably no longer be aligned to the magnetic north?
The Mecca watch sounds pretty cool, actually.
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22-04-2008, 16:17
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Re: Muslim call to adopt Mecca time
Personally I think we should all switch over to 'Hammer Time!'
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22-04-2008, 16:40
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Re: Muslim call to adopt Mecca time
Or the Justin Zone
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22-04-2008, 16:40
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Re: Muslim call to adopt Mecca time
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Personally I think we should all switch over to 'Hammer Time!'
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Do you think it'll catch on?
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22-04-2008, 16:48
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Re: Muslim call to adopt Mecca time
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Do you think it'll catch on?
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