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UK - Jail toilets face away from Mecca

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A rather amusing manifestation of dhimmitude.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/4926114.stm

Facilities in a prison are being built so Muslim inmates do not have to face Mecca while sitting on the toilet.

The Home Office said two new toilet blocks are being installed as part of a refurbishment at Brixton jail in south London.

Faith leaders had told prison bosses it was unacceptable for Muslim inmates to face Mecca while using the toilet.

"The refurbishment has been carried out with due consideration for all faiths", a Home Office spokeswoman said.

"Following consultation with faith leaders within the prison, various small adjustments were made to ensure the faith issues of all prisoners are taken into account."

She added: "The money spent did not affect the overall cost of the refurbishment programme."
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#1 gwayneco, Apr 21, 2006

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Isn't the world round?

#2 MR. MEOWGI, Apr 21, 2006
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That's some funny ****.

Thanks, I'll be here all week.

#3 rhadamanthus, Apr 21, 2006
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rhadamanthus said:

That's some funny ****.

Thanks, I'll be here all week.
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TGIF

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MR. MEOWGI said:

Isn't the world round?
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So its better for your rear to face Mecca when defacating? It is really a wonder that the human race has made it this far.

A Muslim really has to worry about which direction a toilet faces?

If there really are space aliens observing Earth, I would just love to read what they think of us.

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Saint Louis said:

If there really are space aliens observing Earth, I would just love to read what they think of us.
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Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.

Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches.

Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.
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yet ANOTHER victory handed to the Jihadasses.

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Jihadists 101
America 0

#8 Baqui99, Apr 21, 2006
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Jihadists have now surpassed the Texas Longhorns for longest active winning streak.

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Baqui99 said:

Jihadists 101
America 0
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America's a second half team.

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SamFisher said:

Jihadists have now surpassed the Texas Longhorns for longest active winning streak.
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Yes, but do you think the Jihadists could beat Ohio State in the Horseshoe - AT NIGHT?

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I'm all for being culturally sensitive but if you have ass direction issues all I have to say is DON"T COMMIT A CRIME!!!

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losttexan said:

DON"T COMMIT A CRIME!!!
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your use of the term dhimmitude is quite puzzling gwayneco

#14 CreepyFloyd, Apr 21, 2006
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LMAO! Good one, gwayneco, thanks for posting

Now excuse me while I parse through the holy texts to find a reference that bans toilets from facing mecca; this is a new one...

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Gwayneco, man you have a lot of hate against Muslims... you must waste a lot of time looking up articles like these, a normal person wouldn't go out of his way for posting an article everyday which has the same theme. There is definitely something disturbing you, you need help.

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for those of you saying that the world is round, and that you can face your ass towards mecca.

the islamic way says that

'do not face the front or back towards the Qiblah (when relieving onself).'
(Tirmidhi vol.1 pg.8; HM Saeed Company)

the qiblah would be the way we face during prayers.

it is a sign of respect.

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adeelsiddiqui said:

for those of you saying that the world is round, and that you can face your ass towards mecca.

the islamic way says that

'do not face the front or back towards the Qiblah (when relieving onself).'
(Tirmidhi vol.1 pg.8; HM Saeed Company)

the qiblah would be the way we face during prayers.

it is a sign of respect.
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Never heard of such thing, and may be it would make sense in a Muslim country where houses/facilities might be built to comply with these specifications, but not in a British jail.

Come to think of it, my house in Saudi had a toilet facing the qibla..crap!

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tigermission1 said:

Never heard of such thing, and may be it would make sense in a Muslim country where houses/facilities might be built to comply with these specifications, but not in a British jail.

Come to think of it, my house in Saudi had a toilet facing the qibla..crap!
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again, if you read my post in the other thread it clearly specifies that there is a strong opinion that if you are relieving yourself with a barrier b/w you and the qiblah then there is no problem. its just when you are in the open...

I dont think you are qualified enough to lay judgement on where it would make sense to comply with the specifications or not.

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adeelsiddiqui said:

again, if you read my post in the other thread it clearly specifies that there is a strong opinion that if you are relieving yourself with a barrier b/w you and the qiblah then there is no problem. its just when you are in the open...
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I doubt many people **** in the open...

Anyways, "ennama al-a'mal bel neyyat".

#20 tigermission1, Apr 22, 2006

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