Giant Mecca clock seeks to call time on Greenwich

[Fu Manchu]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiarabia/7937123/Giant-Mecca-clock-seeks-to-call-time-on-Greenwich.html

According to Yusuf al-Qaradawi, an Egyptian cleric known around the Muslim world for his popular television show "Sharia and Life", Mecca has a greater claim to being the prime meridian because it is "in perfect alignment with the magnetic north."

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.

damned infidels and their science

 

[kato]

islam

fun for all

 

[Fu Manchu]

....and all for fun!



see whgat i did there?

 

[kato]

yap!!!!11

 

[Polaroid]

I hope that Abdel-Baset al-Sayyed doesn't get involved in things like designing airplanes.

 

[Fu Manchu]

really? i was hoping that aeronautical engineering would be EXACTLY the field that he tries to go for next.