Indonesian Muslims have been praying in the direction of Somalia, not Mecca
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[url]http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66F3UN20100716[/url]
[release]Indonesia's Muslims learned on Friday they have been praying in the wrong direction, after the country's highest Islamic authority said its directive on the direction of Mecca actually had people facing Africa.
Muslims are supposed to face the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia during prayer and the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) issued an edict in March stipulating westward was the correct direction from the world's most populous Muslim country.
"But it has been decided that actually the mosques are facing Somalia or Kenya, so we are now suggesting people shift the direction slightly to the north-west," the head of the MUI, Cholil Ridwan, told Reuters. "There's no need to knock down mosques, just shift your direction slightly during prayer."
Ridwan said Muslims need not fear that their prayers have been wasted because they were facing the wrong way.
"Their prayers will still be heard by Allah," he said.
Said Agil Siradj, head of Indonesia's largest Muslim organization Nahdlatul Ulama, told English language newspaper the Jakarta Globe that the confusion showed the MUI issued edicts too fast and that this was a lesson for them.
The MUI has, in the past, issued controversial edicts banning Muslims from chanting during yoga, and from smoking.
Indonesia is a majority Muslim but officially secular country.[/release]
Sounds like an Onion headline.
Praying to pirates.
Arr.
Muslims are nothing but puppets under the cleric and leaders hands, they give away all their freedom to that cause. "Mohammad" and "Allah" supposedly trapping them in endless progessional insanity, or in this case, praying in the direction of some stupid mosque.
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[QUOTE=Arrows;23469447]Muslims are nothing but puppets under the cleric and leaders hands, they give away all their freedom to that cause. "Mohammad" and "Allah" supposedly trapping them in endless progessional insanity, or in this case, praying in the direction of some stupid mosque.[/QUOTE]
What crawled in your ass and died?
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[QUOTE=Arrows;23469447]Muslims are nothing but puppets under the cleric and leaders hands, they give away all their freedom to that cause. "Mohammad" and "Allah" supposedly trapping them in endless progessional insanity, or in this case, praying in the direction of some stupid mosque.[/QUOTE]
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What the fuck on earth have you been smoking?
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[QUOTE=Arrows;23469447]Muslims are nothing but puppets under the cleric and leaders hands, they give away all their freedom to that cause. "Mohammad" and "Allah" supposedly trapping them in endless progessional insanity, or in this case, praying in the direction of some stupid mosque.[/QUOTE]
Sounds like the opening of a right-wing propaganda advert.
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[QUOTE]"Their prayers will still be heard by Allah," he said.[/QUOTE]
no.
If their prayers will still be heard then the direction doesn't really matter. It's just a direction.
[QUOTE=DOG-GY;23469829]If their prayers will still be heard then the direction doesn't really matter. It's just a direction.[/QUOTE]
It's still accepted because they made a mistake, and no-one knew about it until now. Once they found out it was wrong, they need to change the direction.
[QUOTE=starpluck;23469588]
Oh and by the way, Islam does not have any leaders. That's Catholics.[/QUOTE]
What about Shi'a Muslims? Well, I know they don't have any sort of central heirarchy, but don't they have imams and whatnot?
And Arrows is a generalizing generalizer.
Probably should just stone them all to death.
I think it'd be funnier if they realized that their prayers couldn't have been heard this whole time.
If they said that though, I would have thought Onion.
Fuck you FP, Allah is the one true God.
What, are prayers like a death beam that you have to focus in the right direction?
[QUOTE=ThatHippyMan;23471039]What, are prayers like a death beam that you have to focus in the right direction?[/QUOTE]
You can't get signal on the iPhone 4 if you hold it the wrong way. Maybe pointing in the wrong direction is blocking the signal to Allah
Right people, synchronized 30 degree turn, and go
I hate it when people refer to their god as "allah", like they can't just say "God".
"Allah" is an arabic for for God. It is the same God that the Jews and Christians pray to, they just have a different prophet who is Mohammed.
Don't get me wrong.. I'm not religious or anything.. but I'm well-educated in religion, plus I lived in the middle east for 10 years and know the Arabic language and culture as well as I know the English language and American culture.
[QUOTE=collegegrad;23471122]I hate it when people refer to their god as "allah", like they can't just say "God".
"Allah" is an arabic for for God. It is the same God that the Jews and Christians pray to, they just have a different prophet who is Mohammed.
Don't get me wrong.. I'm not religious or anything.. but I'm well-educated in religion, plus I lived in the middle east for 10 years and know the Arabic language and culture as well as I know the English language and American culture.[/QUOTE]
Culture.
[QUOTE=Arrows;23469447]Muslims are nothing but puppets under the cleric and leaders hands, they give away all their freedom to that cause. "Mohammad" and "Allah" supposedly trapping them in endless progessional insanity, or in this case, praying in the direction of some stupid mosque.[/QUOTE]
Another fine muslim loving post from Arrows :911:
And I take it other religions are somehow better are they?
[QUOTE=collegegrad;23471122]I hate it when people refer to their god as "allah", like they can't just say "God".
"Allah" is an arabic for for God. It is the same God that the Jews and Christians pray to, they just have a different prophet who is Mohammed.
Don't get me wrong.. I'm not religious or anything.. but I'm well-educated in religion, plus I lived in the middle east for 10 years and know the Arabic language and culture as well as I know the English language and American culture.[/QUOTE]
Mostly culture.
[QUOTE=collegegrad;23471122]I hate it when people refer to their god as "allah", like they can't just say "God".
"Allah" is an arabic for for God. It is the same God that the Jews and Christians pray to, they just have a different prophet who is Mohammed.
Don't get me wrong.. I'm not religious or anything.. but I'm well-educated in religion, plus I lived in the middle east for 10 years and know the Arabic language and culture as well as I know the English language and American culture.[/QUOTE]
Why don't you just call Jesus, Prophet?
:foxnews: Are Muslims praying to pirates who want to take over ships and murder people? Is this proof that the religion-of-peace is really a religion-of-war? This and more on The Glenn Beck Program :foxnews:
[QUOTE=Cirtaboyz;23471254]Mostly culture.[/QUOTE]
Islam recognize every prophet Christianity and what the jews believe in (Moses and Jesus etc.).
[QUOTE=collegegrad;23471122]I hate it when people refer to their god as "allah", like they can't just say "God".
"Allah" is an arabic for for God. It is the same God that the Jews and Christians pray to, they just have a different prophet who is Mohammed.
Don't get me wrong.. I'm not religious or anything.. but I'm well-educated in religion, plus I lived in the middle east for 10 years and know the Arabic language and culture as well as I know the English language and American culture.[/QUOTE]
Actually Allah is the most accurate term to describe God for monotheistic religions. It means one and only God.
I call the flame war- whoops, too late
:downs: hurr which way is northwest?
Haha, wow.
[QUOTE=Arrows;23469447]Muslims are nothing but puppets under the cleric and leaders hands, they give away all their freedom to that cause. "Mohammad" and "Allah" supposedly trapping them in endless progessional insanity, or in this case, praying in the direction of some stupid mosque.[/QUOTE]
don't keep all that crack for yourself, come on share
[QUOTE=Arrows;23469447]Muslims are nothing but puppets under the cleric and leaders hands, they give away all their freedom to that cause. "Mohammad" and "Allah" supposedly trapping them in endless progessional insanity, or in this case, praying in the direction of some stupid mosque.[/QUOTE]
Dude. Mecca isn't a mosque... that would be silly.
It's a rock.
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