Giant Mecca clock seeks to call time on Greenwich
11th August 2010
But Islamic scholars hope the clock’s influence will stretch far further than the sands of Saudi Arabia, as part of a plan for Mecca to eclipse the Greenwich Observatory as the “true centre of the earth”.
As Mohammed al-Arkubi, manager of one of the hotels in the complex, put it: “Putting Mecca time in the face of Greenwich Mean Time. This is the goal.”
This claim that the holy city is a “zero magnetism zone” has won support from some Arab scientists like Abdel-Baset al-Sayyed of the Egyptian National Research Centre who says that there is no magnetic force in Mecca.
“That’s why if someone travels to Mecca or lives there, he lives longer, is healthier and is less affected by the earth’s gravity,” he said. “You get charged with energy.”
Western scientists have challenged such assertions, noting that the Magnetic North Pole is in actual fact on a line of longitude that passes through Canada, the United States, Mexico and Antarctica.
But what is mere science if Muslim supremacy is at stake?
August 11th, 2010 at 06:08
Muslims are really just this stupid. ‘If it isn’t in the Koran then they don’t need to know it.’ They are anti science, anti-woman, anti-freedom, anti-democracy, pro-rape, pro-sexual apartheid… They are primitive seventh century moonbats.
August 11th, 2010 at 07:25
…the Magnetic North Pole is in actual fact on a line of longitude that passes through Canada, the United States, Mexico and Antarctica.
Whaaaat?
August 11th, 2010 at 08:28
I think what they mean by that is that the Magnetic North Pole is actually “south” of the True North Pole and that displacement is along a line of longitude etc.
August 11th, 2010 at 11:16
One does have to take a certain amount of pleasure in knowing that Muslims are allowing 7th century thought to supplant science and technology. If you have to go head to head against a group, you could not ask for a larger advantage.