If you were a muslim and you lived in South America......

[Fountain79]

and you were trying to pray towards Mecca. Which way would be closer....east or west? My students asked me and I have no idea...

[DS1]

1. Isn't it ridiculous to think that you can bend prayers?

But it's definitely East. By a huge amount. Do you not have a globe handy? It's painfully obvious when you look at one.

[Blue-Jay]

7. God doesn't hear counter-clockwise prayers.

It's some convoluted shit about the international date line that screws up the reception, but I forget the details. Kirk Cameron explained it to me but after the first few sentences, I couldn't get past the idea that Mike Seaver was waving a banana at me and showing me pictures of the elusive crocaduck.

[Iris]

16. OT - Love your license plate!

Swift would be proud!

[Dr. Strange]

2. Yep, east.

[DarkTirade]

6. On the other hand, if you lived in Hawaii...

:shrug:

[Dr. Strange]

8. Very funny.

There are no Muslims in Hawaii. I've thwarted your trick question!

[DarkTirade]

9. What about tourists though?

Don't have to live there to pray there.

[Dr. Strange]

13. Going to Hawaii...

is expressly forbidden in Islam. It's one of the fundamental tenets.

[DarkTirade]

15. Ah, okay.

So the only ones that would go there would be the ones lax enough not to pray.

[KamaAina]

11. Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzt!!

http://starbulletin.com/2005/01/01/news/story6.html

At Manoa Valley's mosque yesterday afternoon, Hawaii Muslims also prayed for five island families that have lost relatives in southern Asia's deadly seismic waves.

Some of the families, all of whom attend the mosque, have lost as many as four family members in the disaster.

"It's actually people we know who are directly affected," said Hakim Ouansafi, president and chairman of the Muslim Association of Hawaii. "As Muslims, we have to do whatever we can."

About 150 Muslims gathered yesterday to pray for the victims of the tsunamis and donate funds for relief efforts. The families that lost relatives asked for privacy.



Thanks for playing, though, and I'm sure you'll enjoy this copy of our home game.

[Dr. Strange]

12. They're not REAL Muslims!

They don't have the ceremonial kilt!

:eyes:

[madinmaryland]

3. A brazilian muslims?? How many is that?

[Fountain79]

5. In this case it would be Colombian muslims....

and they are very rare indeed.

[Bucky]

4. Still eastward. The opposite side of the world from Makkah is out in the Pacific Ocean

[La Lioness Priyanka]

10. east.

[Bake]

14. So if you're in South America,

Wouldn't it be more northeast? Depending, of course, on how far south in S.A. one is.

Bake

[Evoman]

17. Lol....I suppose it depends if prayers are affected by gravity.

If they are, either way will eventually get you to Mecca anyways. If it's not, east won't help you anyways, because your prayers are going into outer space.

[trof]

18. And you have to take the corriolus effect into account.