Monday, April 21, 2008

Muslim Leaders Want Mecca to Be Center of World Time Zones

From Fox News:

The Islamiczation of the world has begun. There is nothing wrong with Greenwich Mean Time. Mecca is not the center of the world. This planet has no center.

Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) could be replaced by "Mecca Time," if a group of Muslim leaders get their way.

At the conference, "Mecca, the Center of the Earth, Theory and Practice," Muslim scientists and clerics called for the change, arguing that the holy city in Saudi Arabia is the center of the Earth and should be the reference point for world time, not Greenwich, England, the British Broadcasting Corp. reports.

One geologist at the Qatar conference said Mecca's longitude is perfectly aligned with magnetic north and should therefore replace the English city, which has been measuring time zones since 1884, the BBC reports.

Attendees of the conference also reviewed the "Mecca Watch," an invention by a French Muslim which reportedly rotates counter-clockwise and displays Mecca's direction from any point in the world, the BBC said.

The conference is part of a trend called “Ijaz al-Koran" or "miraculous nature of the holy text," which tries to find precedents for modern science from passages in the Koran, the BBC reports.

But its critics say Ijaz al-Koran confuses spiritual truth — which depends on constant faith — with empirical truth, which depends on ever-changing science, the BBC said.

It is in my humble opinion that this is only the first step. What next? Forcing us to adhere to Shar'ai law in all nations?

5 comments:

Roger W. Gardner said...

Incredible.
Welcome to the blogoshere Findalis!
Love your blog, love your blog name.
If the article you just posted is a sample of what's to come, you're going to definitely be successful.

re: the article. This nonsense perfectly proves that Islam is at least 600 years behind Christianity, and a couple of thousand years behind Judaism. As I'm sure you know, during the time of the early Christian church all maps were Jerusalemcentric. We've learned, we've changed, they haven't.
Good luck, I'll certainly be back often.
rg

Findalis said...

Thank you Roger. You should be happy to know that there will be more of the same on this site. And know that your site is one of the first I view each day.

Maggie Thornton said...

I also love the name of your blog. With your background (very interesting, BTW) you will love blogging.

Well, this further confirms that Islam plans to be the center of all of our worlds.

The ArchBishop of Canterbury has already advocated for Shariah in parts of London. That idea was shot down with gusto.

Good post. I'll look forward to visiting you.

Maggie
Maggie's Notebook

Findalis said...

Thank you Maggie and If you let me I'll put up a link to your blog here.

I forgot about our dear friend the ArchBishop of Canterbury. A good friend of mine in England who's a vicar is embarrassed by him. This friend who asks to remain Anonymous, tries to promote his faith (Christianity), but is blocked from that. Now he is told to promote Multi-culturism. So much for the Church of England. The Islamists are controlling that too.

pounce_uk said...

Just a little further info on this call for GMT to become MMT.
The man behind this move is ‘Sheikh Youssef al-Qaradawy’
Who in Feb of this year found he was banned from visiting Britain. Because of his views on Jews, women and gays.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7232398.stm

This story has more to do with sour grapes than somebody finding that wine-ding up his watch in Mecca is more accurate than doing the same at Greenwich , London.