Big Bin – the royal clock tower of Mecca – is nearing completion.
Not on Twitter yet, unlike @Big_Ben_Clock
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aziz
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aziz
Prayers in Mecca at the Grand Mosque will be streamed live on YouTube during Ramadan at: http://www.youtube.com/MakkahLive
the press release:
Google has announced that it will show prayers live from Makkah during Ramadan on its video-sharing service, YouTube.
The internet giant confirmed on Monday that it had been working in close partnership with the Saudi Ministry of Culture and Information.
“This is the first LiveStream event coming from MENA, specifically Saudi Arabia, and we hope that it will give the opportunity not only to two billion Muslims but to the entire world to observe one milion Muslims praying each day from the holiest point in Makkah, the Kaaba, for the first time in history,” said a Google statement.
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aziz
Live video from the Great Mosque at Mecca: http://live.gph.gov.sa/index.htm
sadly, not embeddable.
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aziz
Immigrant laborers are striking in Makkah to protest wage and working conditions.
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Dean Esmay
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Arwi
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Abu Noor Al-Irlandee
Allahu Akbar! May Allah (swt) strengthen and support these workers and every human being struggling for justice!
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AA
Is this supposed to be funny?
In a severe case of clock envy, Saudi Arabia has erected a nearly 2,000-foot-high timepiece intended to stake a symbolic claim for Mecca as the world’s center. Islamic scholars have proposed that the Royal Mecca Clock Tower supplant the observatory in Greenwich, England, to set the new global standard time. It is the latest form of Muslim global outreach – taking control of time itself.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/aug/11/no-time-for-islam/
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Tec15
I don’t know. Is linking to the moonie times supposed to be funny?
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thabet
Sorry to be so blunt, but when you blog/comment on Saudi you a sound like a loon.
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AA
I am not sure which blog/comment of mine on Saudi you are perceiving as loony, but anyways, do you have a comment on this clock? The news is out there on several sources, I just happened to have clipped from the first I came across (so what if it is from moonie times).
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Pretty Pink Ponies
LOL, clock envy. *snicker*
TAKING CONTROL OF TIME ITSELF!!!!1!!!!1! ZA WARUDOOOOOOO!
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AA
Another “time” issue and solution
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jKIMRsHBHYKkAmRh6F70lmnrFWWQD9HI4BV00
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Yakoub
The Daily Fail cover this story, too. As one reader’s comment astutely notes, “Daily mail obsession with the Saudi’s continues…………whether its the expensive cars getting clamped outside Harrods or big clocks they contruct in their own country………. Must be a slow news day.”
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aziz
Ever wondered where the antipode of Mecca was? Luckily, someone else did the math (though they kind of cheated)
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thabet
And check out the massive historical record of “peaceful” Christians raping and bombing their way around the world, FTW!
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Dan
Yeah, like Radovan Karadzic, who is seen as a hero by many Greeks, Serbs, and other dipshit Orthodox Christians who think every Muslim is a “dirty Turk”.
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midwinterspring
Obviously there’s no island there now after Locke moved it.
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Pretty Pink Unicorns
Then the opposite of Makka = a giant statue of T3wrt “The Great One”, broken off at the foot.
I’m so sad Sa3iid Jarraah (“Sayid Jarrah”) seems to be naughty now. He has always been my favourite tortured character. I mean, they’re all tortured, so I could have just said “my favourite character”, but…
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aziz
***LOL***
so, LOST is dawah and the viewers are dhimmies after all. Someone alert jihadwatch…
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thabet
Islamist propaganda has infiltrated American television!
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buzz
Emmerich reveals fear of fatwa axed 2012 scene
Roland Emmerich, the director of the ‘end of days’ disaster movie, had wanted to depict the destruction of Islam’s holiest site, but was persuaded not to.
He blew up the Empire State Building and the White House in Independence Day, sent a giant monster careering through the heart of Manhattan in Godzilla and destroyed the famous Hollywood sign in The Day After Tomorrow. But it seems there are places even Roland Emmerich will not go – the German film-maker has revealed he abandoned plans to obliterate Islam’s holiest site on the big screen for fear of attracting a fatwa.
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Willow
Doesn’t the destruction of the Kaba play some part in our eschatology? Where’ve I read that?
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Buzz
Good question. Have not heard that one. Now that you bring it up, I remember the Holy Prophet foretelling that the white and yellow people would engage in a conflict that would end the human race. I think it must be a hadith but I forget where I picked that up.
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Abu Noor
Willow, i don’t have it in front of me to know the evidence he cites, but I know Ibn Kathir rahimuAllaah does include destruction of the kabah as one of the major signs of the Day of Judgement
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thabet
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Dan
lol I’m guilty of posting in this blog post’s comments due to boredom. Christ, there are a lot of anti-Muslim pricks out there.
That being said, there are plenty of other buildings that Emmerich could have opted for. Hagia Sofia, Blue Mosque, Burj al-Arab, the city of Esfehan, Samarkhand, etc.
Shame on him for not including it. If I was the director, I would have included it.
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Dan
Sorry, didn’t link it correctly. Here it is
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Buzz
I saw a lot of unpleasant postings and comments in the film industry about the planned film on the Prophet. The need to move on. Islamophobia is sooooo 2001-2008.
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Christian
Mohamed, there are a lot of Muslim pricks out there.
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aziz
200 mosques aren’t facing Mecca… in Mecca.
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plimfix
I am against war, not least because it is rarely a viable political solution. But in my dreams, there is one victorious battle I fear I might approve of. It would be the victory whereby a pious Muslim army, independent of the West or any specific nation and led by Sufis (yes, there have been Sufi soldiers), ceases control of Makka and Medina. This is just one reason why.
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Conrad Barwa
Is it not a bit sectarian for the liberation army to consist of Sufis?
And of course there have been Sufi soldiers, Sufis have a very long and established martial tradition. Individual Sufis may have been pacifists, their followers often were not. The Naqshbandi order in South Asia comes to mind as a prominent example.
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plimfix
Yes, much better – a non-sectarian army. Shukran.
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kaitlin
Plimfix, a picture for you.
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PI.info
Unfortunate that the Saudis lack the diversity of the Sufis. Where is the Islamic/political branch of Saudi Salafism/Wahhabism that sets before itself the admonition to be a mercy to Muslims and a mercy to mankind? I suppose if one defines “mercy” broadly enough, then one could claim somehow that the whipping is “merciful” – if you accept the Muttawa’s excretable narrative of the event, along with their excretable view of the potential of human nature.
At the level of fitrah one can see how far from God the Saudis are in the matter linked. Of course Allah (swt) has set in Plimfix a desire to set Mecca and Medina right – at least to the level of virtue knowledge we are born with, if not to an actual fully functioning rightly-guided society itself.
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Conrad Barwa
Yes, much better – a non-sectarian army.
To be fair I misread you, you did say ‘led by Sufis’ rather than consisting entirely of Sufis; which is obviously not sectarian and acceptable.
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Ali
The hell with war! I’m looking to party. How come the Cheerleaders are not here? WE WANT THE CHEERLEADERS!
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plimfix
Saudi ‘Obama’: First Black Imam of Mecca. Imam of Grand Mosque does not mind being compared to US President, praises King Abdullah for appointing him.
Abu Noor Al-Irlandee, 
Arwi, and 
AA, 
Pretty Pink Ponies, and 2 others are discussing. 
thabet, 
Christian, 
Ali, 
Conrad Barwa, 
“Immigrant laborers” in that part of the world are typically treated pretty much as indentured servants with virtually no rights to speak of. Seeing something like this on House of Saud-dominated soil is just… my God, this is so amazing to watch. It may make the wake of the Berlin Wall falling look small.