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1. #295546
   On April 21st, 2008 at 4:28 pm, wildcat84 said:

   I play the online game EVE Online, which is on a server hosted in London. EVE time is GMT

   They change it to sharia standard time I quit.

2. #295549
   On April 21st, 2008 at 4:29 pm, brooklyn red said:

   Hmmmm, I predict a lot more “premature detonations”.

3. #295550
   On April 21st, 2008 at 4:29 pm, malkin_fan said:

   “Muslim scientists”???????

   I didn’t know they did anything besides design suicide belts

4. #295552
   On April 21st, 2008 at 4:30 pm, feebiebabe said:

   It is called “Ijaz al-Koran”, which roughly translates as the “miraculous nature of the holy text submit-or-die”.

5. #295554
   On April 21st, 2008 at 4:31 pm, giaodn said:

   1. Why is the center of the earth on the outside? Centers are usually on the inside of spheres.

   2. Magnetic poles move.

   Other than that all their other arguments sound awesome!

6. #295556
   On April 21st, 2008 at 4:32 pm, bloghooligan said:

   well, i mean, sure. silly us for not considering Mecca was the true center of the world, galaxy, universe, and in fact, of everything.

7. #295558
   On April 21st, 2008 at 4:33 pm, sierra.caddis said:

   One geologist argued that unlike other longitudes, Mecca’s was in perfect alignment to magnetic north.

   Magnetic north changes and wanders. It also flips with the south pole over geologic time.

8. #295559
   On April 21st, 2008 at 4:34 pm, hrobusto said:

   Maps and compasses anyone?

9. #295561
   On April 21st, 2008 at 4:34 pm, Jim M. said:

   I suppose it is the new standard for timed suicide bombs.

10. #295562
    On April 21st, 2008 at 4:35 pm, nyc123me said:

    LOL.. “The underlying belief is that scientific truths were also revealed in the Muslim holy book, and it is the work of scholars to unearth and publicise the textual evidence.”

    Translation : Once scientific truths are discovered, it is the work of islamic scholars propagandists to distort the muslim holy book to make it fit the existing science.

    Lets see them ‘discover’ something not already discovered..

11. #295564
    On April 21st, 2008 at 4:36 pm, mymanpotsandpans said:

    Channeling George Carlin: It’s 7 o’clock in Los Angeles! It’s 8 o’clock in Denver! It’s 9′ o’clock in Chicago! In Mecca, it’s 863 AD…

12. #295573
    On April 21st, 2008 at 4:41 pm, nyc123me said:

    Sheesh, what next? BTW, if you want to know where the true center of the earth is, it’s approximately 3,950 miles beneath your feet, regardless of where you are on the surface.

13. #295574
    On April 21st, 2008 at 4:41 pm, shooter said:

    And if Mecca didn’t exist any longer?
    Then what?

    ( at risk of being reprimanded, I wont say Nuke the place)

14. #295575
    On April 21st, 2008 at 4:42 pm, dejack said:

    It’s a good plan. Devise a way to remove and isolate their society (I am being very generous with the term)in all manners of time and space from the rest of the world. Maybe if France adapts to it “youths” won’t torch 2000 cars a night.

15. #295577
    On April 21st, 2008 at 4:43 pm, J S Ragman said:

    Muslim scientists and clerics have called for the adoption of Mecca time to replace GMT, arguing that the Saudi city is the true centre of the Earth.

    Unlike Western clocks, which when broken are still right twice a day, the new Muslim clock will only be right once every two millennia.

16. #295581
    On April 21st, 2008 at 4:45 pm, StrangeLove said:

    One geologist argued that unlike other longitudes, Mecca’s was in perfect alignment to magnetic north.

    Magnetic north isn’t static.

    Any ‘geologist’ that says something so dumb needs to go retake geology 101.

    Unless, of course he means two points are in perfect alignment. And that means EVERY point on Earth is in perfect alignment with magnetic north.

    Islam hasn’t given science much over the past 1000 years and it doesn’t look like its going to any time soon.

17. #295583
    On April 21st, 2008 at 4:45 pm, nbarry said:

    I’m reminded of this exchange in Shakespeare:

    “I can call spirits from the vastly deep.”

    “But will they come when you call them?”

18. #295584
    On April 21st, 2008 at 4:46 pm, tropicalwave12 said:

    He said the English infidels had imposed GMT on the rest of the world by force when Britain was a big colonial poweroppressive and murderous anti-muslim infidel country, and it was about time that changed…

    There I think this is what he meant to say.

19. #295585
    On April 21st, 2008 at 4:48 pm, KCK said:

    Magnetic North freakin’ resides in Canada. I’m not Canadian, but if magnetic north alignment is your logic, I’d say Canada gets the win in that argument.

    This is why we need more anti-Islamicist humor out there. If we let these nut balls get by without derision, they will just keep pushing the envelope of the absurd like this.

20. #295586
    On April 21st, 2008 at 4:48 pm, feebiebabe said:

    #15 – (but no one wants to challange them otherwise they’ll cut off your heads and burn all your cards…..)

21. #295587
    On April 21st, 2008 at 4:48 pm, tropicalwave12 said:

    P.S. What does this mean for Beer:30? Or Happy hour?

22. #295588
    On April 21st, 2008 at 4:48 pm, feebiebabe said:

    (ops, cars not cards)

23. #295591
    On April 21st, 2008 at 4:49 pm, sshuffield70 said:

    You’d think that something that was created 125 years ago would be left alone, and not played with just to please the few people.

    If they really want to be in charge of an empire, let’s hurry up with the space station. And then they can make all the suicide blasts they want there because we won’t give a d***!

24. #295592
    On April 21st, 2008 at 4:49 pm, bear1909 said:

    Muslim scientists and clerics have called for the adoption of Mecca time to replace GMT, arguing that the Saudi city is the true centre of the Earth.

    Bear1909 has called for the adoption of little cocktail weenies as the International Food of All Species since it is at the center of his current food fascination.

    Fork that pork, AwkMed.

25. #295593
    On April 21st, 2008 at 4:49 pm, Latino said:

    “Muslim scientists.” ROFL. Too funny.

26. #295597
    On April 21st, 2008 at 4:50 pm, brooklyn red said:

    dejack, re: “Maybe if France adapts to it “youths” won’t torch 2000 cars a night”.

    Ohhh that’s just socialist protectionism… It means new 2000 cars sold the next day, plus all the jobs created by hauling away the burnt shells… I am surprised they haven’t figured it out in Dearbornistan.

27. #295607
    On April 21st, 2008 at 4:57 pm, feebiebabe said:

    ROFLMAO

28. #295608
    On April 21st, 2008 at 4:57 pm, shooter said:

    J S Ragman said:new Muslim clock will only be right once every two millennia.

    pretty funny.

    4:49 pm, Latino said:
    “Muslim scientists.” ROFL. Too funny.

    My thoughts as well.

29. #295615
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:00 pm, wildcat84 said:

    Isn’t “muslim scientist” a contradiction in terms?

30. #295617
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:01 pm, bear1909 said:

    

31. #295620
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:01 pm, aunursa said:

    I suggest a counter-offer: Jerusalem Standard Time?

32. #295622
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:01 pm, Watcherdownsouth said:

    Bear1909 has called for the adoption of little cocktail weenies as the International Food of All Species since it is at the center of his current food fascination.

    Fork that pork, AwkMed.

    Now I don’t care what you say, that is funny….

33. #295623
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:01 pm, DesertLover said:

    Guess we should plan on a Don Williams music comeback … “Living on Baghdad Time” …

34. #295628
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:04 pm, J S Ragman said:

    Afternoon, bear. Good to see you again.

    Several jokes about whether you went to see the Pope are swirling in my mind.

35. #295630
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:06 pm, DJM said:

    Mecca *is* the center of the world, as evident on this Islamic map:

    Islamic World Map

36. #295632
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:06 pm, shooter said:

    I thought bear WAS the pope.

37. #295633
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:07 pm, Watcherdownsouth said:

    Isn’t “muslim scientist” a contradiction in terms?

    Wildcat84, the term I think you are looking for is “Oxymoron“….

    ….with the emphasis on Moron…

38. #295635
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:08 pm, DirkBelig said:

    Anyone else noticing the irony that in the wake of Ben Stein’s figurative crucifixion for daring to call out the militant Darwinists we now have Muslims demanding that the world yield to their call that time be set according to their holy book. Where’s the outcry against this interference from people of faith? (Nevermind, it’s a rhetorical question.)

39. #295637
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:09 pm, shooter said:

    5:06 pm, DJM said:
    this Islamic map:

    Looks more like a scoped target to me.
    hehe

40. #295638
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:09 pm, Watcherdownsouth said:

    DJM #35, that map is funny, too. Y’all are having way too much fun today. Don’t you know you are supposed to be bitter?

    Now, dang it, where did I leave my gun…

41. #295640
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:10 pm, graysonret said:

    Well, I expect Europe to go rushing to change the clocks. They must not upset the moslems, of course. In England, for sure, complaining that changing GMT to “Mecca time” will get one charged with a “hate crime”. Personally, following their reasoning, Canada should have the choice, not Mecca. Any Canadiens complaining will also be charged with “hate crimes”. Maybe the moslems can get laws passed forbidding the magnetic north from changing.

42. #295643
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:12 pm, undrseige247 said:

    Muslim scientists and clerics have called for the adoption of Mecca time to replace GMT, arguing that the Saudi city is the true centre of the Earth.

    Give a monkey a brain and he’ll swear he’s at the center of the universe.

43. #295644
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:12 pm, DesertLover said:

    If Carbon Dioxide (C02) molecules are damaging the atmosphere … just imagine what OXY-MORON (OM3) molecules are doing to it …

44. #295648
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:13 pm, bear1909 said:

    Sharia Standard Time:

    is that a digital thing or an hour glass fulla sand thang?

    can we turn our calendars back that far?

    can moslem scientists look their names up in a phone book in Mecca?

    do they have phone books in Mecca (how do they fit all that big splashy writing?)

    when was the last time you corroborated a law of physics on the research of a Moslem scientist?

    how do Moslem scientific theories about time and space impact the delivery of seven virgins on time to obedient Jihadists? law of supply and demand (that’s 140k for Iraq alone!)

    while we’re at it: standards of weights and measures— the REAL standards, live from Mecca— the WORLD’s BIGGEST LOSER— Mookie Al Sadr….how much does that wiggly weigh, anyway?

    so many questions and sooooo little time!

45. #295650
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:14 pm, John Ansell said:

    Muslim scientists and clerics have called for the adoption of Mecca time to replace GMT, arguing that the Saudi city is the true centre of the Earth.

    Now wait a minute here. Did they check with Obama on that? I thought he made it very clear that He, The Great Obama, is the centre of the earth.

46. #295656
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:16 pm, bear1909 said:

    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:04 pm, J S Ragman said:

    Afternoon, bear. Good to see you again.

    Several jokes about whether you went to see the Pope are swirling in my mind.

    I slipped The Holy Fawda one of these groovy Haitian see-garz Soap sent me a few weeks back.

    I was a little confused earlier last week when i managed to “Piss off the Pope” heading into our PTA elections…..heh heh….”Darlin- was it somethin ah sed?” lol thin skinned local Berkeleyites…..

    it’s always fun until yer BLOOOD ENEMYBEAR gets elected treasurer….BWAHAHAHAHAHHA!!!!

    

47. #295657
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:17 pm, bjf182 said:

    Does that imply we also having Sharia Savings Time?

48. #295659
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:18 pm, bear1909 said:

    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:06 pm, shooter said:

    I thought bear WAS the pope.

    I think the two sayings merged awhile back and people got confused. The Pope is into outdoor plumbing now—- and, as for me, I’m Catholic.

    

49. #295660
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:18 pm, bear1909 said:

    Get the hook! I am supposed to be working!

    

50. #295661
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:19 pm, dcbprime said:

    So, the longitude line through Mecca runs at an angle?

    Let’s see… globe, marker, and run the line from Mecca to Ellesmere Island.

    All longitudes will either need to be adjusted to follow, or will be eliminated. (I’m talking to you, 84-degrees West!)

51. #295662
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:19 pm, bear1909 said:

    I jacked into Starbucks to get away from the phone. And look! I’m “Awn Loin” chattin away like a fiend.

    

52. #295665
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:21 pm, granite said:

    #5 On April 21st, 2008 at 4:31 pm, giaodn said:

    “1. Why is the center of the earth on the outside? Centers are usually on the inside of spheres.”

    They might be referring to it as the center in the sense of the “navel”, which they might think could thus be on the surface.

    (A stone at the oracle at Delphi, in Greece, was considered the “omphalos”, or “navel” (center) of the universe. I saw the stone [or a reproduction of it] when visiting Delphi in the early 90s.)

    Anyway, who knows, and who cares, what those dangerous clowns are thinking, or arer referring to?

    “2. Magnetic poles move.”

    Exactly.
    Learned that way, way back in school.

    “Other than that all their other arguments sound awesome!”

    LOL!
    Good post.
    Thanks.

    #29 On April 21st, 2008 at 5:00 pm, wildcat84 said:

    “Isn’t “muslim scientist” a contradiction in terms?”

    Rim shot to you!

53. #295666
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:22 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    Sheesh, what next? BTW, if you want to know where the true center of the earth is, it’s approximately 3,950 miles beneath your feet, regardless of where you are on the surface.

    nyc, you have left out that really big turtle…

54. #295668
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:22 pm, brooklyn red said:

    Bear, re:”how do Moslem scientific theories about time and space impact the delivery of seven virgins on time to obedient Jihadists? law of supply and demand (that’s 140k for Iraq alone!)

    That’s seventy two virgins… and it’s a time share.

55. #295669
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:23 pm, Frozen Tex said:

    Here in Canada, we learn that that Magnetic North is in Canada, and that Toronto is the center of the universe, let alone the world!

56. #295670
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:23 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    I myself am perfectly aligned with magnetic north. From me to the north is always from me to the north.

57. #295671
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:23 pm, graysonret said:

    Maybe this will be Jimmy Carter’s next “assignment” for legacy…negotiating the GMT with the moslems. Lots of “hugs” to give there, Jimmy.

58. #295676
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:25 pm, Texas Tiger said:

    Mecca Mean Time: The only time zone where it’s never five o’clock.

59. #295677
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:26 pm, DesertLover said:

    brooklyn red said:

    That’s seventy two virgins… and it’s a time share.

    By now they must have had to come up with a recycling program …

60. #295678
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:27 pm, Brian Smaller said:

    The new clock will run anti-clockwise right back to the 7th Century.

61. #295685
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:31 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    By now they must have had to come up with a recycling program …

    But it’s NOT green!

62. #295686
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:33 pm, Mooseman said:

    I’m surprised as well that there are Muslim scientists. If these scientists exist, why hasn’t their culture progressed since they invented algebra?

63. #295687
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:34 pm, Rev Wolf said:

    No one found humor in the fact that the muslim clock would be moving backwards? I’m disappointed in all of you.

64. #295689
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:34 pm, DesertLover said:

    AlohaGuy … I suspect you have a point there …

65. #295690
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:35 pm, brooklyn red said:

    Carbon credits… virgin credits, whatever, same BS.

66. #295695
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:39 pm, bear1909 said:

    brooklyn red said:

    That’s seventy two virgins… and it’s a time share.

    LMAO….boy is my face red!!!!! 1.44 million virgins…..in one place….

    tawk about a time sensitive deliverable.

    in the words of the immortal Russian General Kutuzov….”OH! CHA CHON-YA!”

67. #295697
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:40 pm, brooklyn red said:

    Rev Wolf said:
    No one found humor in the fact that the muslim clock would be moving backwards? I’m disappointed in all of you.

    Uhhh humor? no, not so much… backwards,that is the freakin problem!

68. #295699
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:42 pm, feebiebabe said:

    Faux News Alert:

    Al Gore requesting consideration as Time Mecca spokesperson for the newest Moslem time change campaign . While negotiations are pending, Gore does require that he be able to take full credit of all findings, along with book rights.

69. #295706
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:48 pm, zorro said:

    So instead of Y2K disaster, it’ll be Y700AD

70. #295707
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:49 pm, bear1909 said:

    Gore: “The last Cheetoh is mine too.” (”Never leave your Cheetohs on the table, Tipper!”

71. #295709
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:50 pm, feebiebabe said:

    ehhh, junk food…junk science…potato patato!

    (Or is it Potatoe?…I fergets)

72. #295710
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:51 pm, iowavette said:

    Anyone attempting to torch my cars will find themselves with a hole where their head once was.

    Back on topic: Unlike the elites in politics, academia and the media, thank goodness MM has the cojones to challenge these revisionists. At the end of the day, however, I’m fine with the Mideast attempting to pursue commercial enterprise using proprietary temporal calculations. Considering the western proclivity for massive and inconvenient contortion where dollars are involved, they might finally discover our limits.

73. #295713
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:52 pm, bear1909 said:

    What’s time to a hawg? The piggies will get the last laff on those MoFo’s.

    How many pigs in production in the US alone? How many pork bellies in storage? And the futures market on pork bellies?

    “Oh Deez 2 mohtch for me and brudda AwkMed! Let me die!”

    Hey, Michigan is a pork producing state…what didja think it was gonna be like. SOY AMERICANO!

74. #295714
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:55 pm, brooklyn red said:

    feebiebabe,… are you sure it’s gore not carter?

75. #295720
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:59 pm, feebiebabe said:

    #73 – Brooklyn (can I call ya that?),

    To tell ya the truth, Brooklyn…
    Either would probably work here (yikes)…I was just playing off the carbon credits and the ridiculous junk science bit….

    (the fact she has to explain the joke is not helping her, Brooklyn…..)

76. #295721
    On April 21st, 2008 at 6:00 pm, brooklyn red said:

    I’m fine with the Mideast attempting to pursue commercial enterprise using proprietary temporal calculations.

    wanna buy some carbon credits?

77. #295722
    On April 21st, 2008 at 6:01 pm, bear1909 said:

    “I am a tater tot vegetarian. Tipper and I believed it was impornant
    to model good breeding….er….eeeding habits for the kids.”
    -Aldo Gore
    (y’all dint know he was Sicilian didja?!?!?!?!?!?!)

78. #295725
    On April 21st, 2008 at 6:01 pm, zorro said:

    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:18 pm, bear1909 said:
    On April 21st, 2008 at 5:06 pm, shooter said:

    I thought bear WAS the pope.
    I think the two sayings merged awhile back and people got confused. The Pope is into outdoor plumbing now—- and, as for me, I’m Catholic.

    Let’s not start this again.

79. #295726
    On April 21st, 2008 at 6:02 pm, brooklyn red said:

    # 75, proud to be called Brooklyn!

80. #295728
    On April 21st, 2008 at 6:02 pm, ArmoredCAV said:

    I love it. The aviators always plan air support on zulu time (GMT) instead of local time, leaving the poor ground guys confused as to when the air will show up on station. (Unless you possess superlative skills at addition and subtraction, and a good memory…) If Jihadi Mean Time (JMT) now equals local time in the mideast, us poor dumb ground guys will be straight! Now the bombs will hit when I want them to.

81. #295729
    On April 21st, 2008 at 6:02 pm, feebiebabe said:

    #79 –

82. #295731
    On April 21st, 2008 at 6:04 pm, feebiebabe said:

    #77 – omg…lmao

83. #295732
    On April 21st, 2008 at 6:04 pm, libocrat said:

    Do Muslims allow clocks or watches?
    Of course they do!

    Do they allow women to tell time?
    Not so sure about that.

    In the middle east it’s always time for a woman to shut up, put out, and wear a burqa.

    Thank you and good evening.

84. #295735
    On April 21st, 2008 at 6:08 pm, yt1300inHtown said:

    Now I know where my toilet empties when I flush.

85. #295737
    On April 21st, 2008 at 6:13 pm, brooklyn red said:

    libocrat, “Do they allow women to tell time?”

    Sure, time to cook, time to wash, time for a beating,…

86. #295740
    On April 21st, 2008 at 6:17 pm, libocrat said:

    Time to make the donuts!!

87. #295766
    On April 21st, 2008 at 6:35 pm, fred5676 said:

    Islamic scientists? Yeah, yeah. That’s right. Their societies encourage so much freedom of thought and funds so much basic research with their oil revenue.

    Shortest list in the world: Islamic Nobel Prize winners for physics, chemistry and medicine.

    Not hard to understand when the vast majority of their education system is spent studying first millennium literature.

88. #295777
    On April 21st, 2008 at 6:48 pm, TheCorruptedLamb said:

    Didn’t the USSR try this? It was lame when they did it as well!

89. #295784
    On April 21st, 2008 at 6:52 pm, ArmywifeArmymom said:

    I am quite sure that my back faces Mecca most of the time, but then again Mecca is an unimportant site to me since I am a Christian. Give them an inch and they’ll take the time of day.

90. #295785
    On April 21st, 2008 at 6:52 pm, granite said:

    #62 On April 21st, 2008 at 5:33 pm, Mooseman said:

    “I’m surprised as well that there are Muslim scientists. If these scientists exist, why hasn’t their culture progressed since they invented algebra?”

    I’m not sure it’s quite as simple as that the Arabs invented algebra.
    Yes, algebra is an Arabic term;
    and yes, they developed algebra somewhat, from what I’ve read;
    but, they certainly do not appear to have invented it.
    From what I’ve read, its origins go back to the Babylonians.

    I searched the net with the terms “algebra” + “invented”, and got a good amount of info.

    Also on the topic of math:
    Even though the numerals we use are commonly referred to as “arabic”, the Arabs did not develop them.
    They are actually Hindu numerals, which is the other term for them that I had learned in school way, way back.

91. #295786
    On April 21st, 2008 at 6:53 pm, TeutonicNomad said:

    Hey, it’s a 72-year old virgin, not 72 virgins. Like all jihady’s; they have been lied to by their Iman’s.

92. #295790
    On April 21st, 2008 at 6:54 pm, Watcherdownsouth said:

    On April 21st, 2008 at 6:17 pm, libocrat said:
    Time to make the donuts!!

    I said it earlier to Wildcat, now I’ll say it again to libocrat….I don’t care what you say, that is funny…

93. #295793
    On April 21st, 2008 at 6:59 pm, Watcherdownsouth said:

    Granite #90 –

    Granite, I believe you will find that it was the Assyrians (spelling?) that invented algebra, along with a whole host of other things that Arabs took credit for. When the forces of Islam conquered various peoples of the Middle East around 700-800 A.D., they would assimilate whatever notable science or culture was contained and then claim it as their own.

94. #295797
    On April 21st, 2008 at 7:05 pm, BlameAmericaLast said:

    The meeting in Qatar is part of a popular trend in some Muslim societies of seeking to find Koranic precedents for modern science.

    I’m sorry but, having the word “Koranic” and “modern” in the same sentence just doesn’t work for me.

95. #295798
    On April 21st, 2008 at 7:08 pm, granite said:

    #93 On April 21st, 2008 at 6:59 pm, Watcherdownsouth said:

    “Granite #90 –

    Granite, I believe you will find that it was the Assyrians (spelling?) that invented algebra, along with a whole host of other things that Arabs took credit for. When the forces of Islam conquered various peoples of the Middle East around 700-800 A.D., they would assimilate whatever notable science or culture was contained and then claim it as their own.”

    Yep.

    I read an article quite recently that described how Arabs and Muslims have borrowed virtually everything that they claim, and are popularly (and ignorantly & erroneously) understood, to have “invented” from the peoples and cultures they invaded, fed and leeched off, and ultimately devoured and destroyed, or severely reduced, over the centuries: India, the Assyrians, the rest of the originally Christian Middle East, originally Christian North Africa, the Greeks, the Armenians, ….

96. #295803
    On April 21st, 2008 at 7:15 pm, Billy Mays said:

    I’M HERE TO TELL YOU ABOUT OUR FINE NEW JIHAD STANDARD TIME CHRONOMETER. SYNCRONIZE YOUR SUICIDE BOMBS TO THE SECOND WITH THIS FINE TIMEPIECE AND YOU WILL ALWAYS APPEAR SPECTACULAR NOT ONLY ON AL JAZEERA, BUT ALSO ON CNN INTERNATIONAL. DESIGNED TO RUN BACKWARDS, NOT ONLY WILL YOU BE ABLE TO TELL EXACTLY WHERE MECCA IS (EVEN IF IT’S NOT DRAWN ON THE FLOOR OF YOUR CELL), BUT IT WILL ALSO BE A SYMBOL OF BACKWARDS PROGRESS CELEBRATING OUR IMMINENT RETURN TO THE DARK AGES. THIS WATCH HAS NOT ONE, BUT TWO ALARMS; THAT’S TWO ALARMS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE. THE FIRST ALARM TELLS YOU WHEN TO PRAY AND THE SECOND ALARM ANNOUNCES THAT IT IS AGAIN TIME TO BEAT YOUR WIVES…

97. #295809
    On April 21st, 2008 at 7:18 pm, sam.i.am said:

    Kudos #13 for pointing out one possible difficulty down the road for “Mecca time”.

    But I suppose “Glass Parking Lot” or “GPT Time” could be used in that case.

    But another question:
    Why is Mecca so important? Why don’t Christians obsess about Nazareth or Golgatha? Because Christ is fully man – historical and corporeal – Christ is also fully God – transcendant, and eternal. His legacy is the faithful on earth and the way we live our lives, not a building or single place.

    The dhimmis in Europe and in this country are what scare me. Our resistance to Sharia will be directly proportional to our Christian faith. A secular Europe will easily succomb to their Muslim conquerors – without a moral compass, one soon can’t even recognize evil, let alone have the will or resolve to defeat it.

98. #295816
    On April 21st, 2008 at 7:38 pm, Concerned Citizen said:

    Billy Mays, PLEASE turn off the caps lock.