Mecca mosques 'wrongly aligned'

Some 200 mosques in Islam's holiest city, Mecca, point the wrong way for prayers, reports from Saudi Arabia say.

All mosques have a niche showing the direction of the most sacred Islamic site, the Kaaba, an ancient cube-like building in Mecca's Grand Mosque.

But people looking down from recently built high-rises in Mecca found the niches in many older mosques were not pointing directly towards the Kaaba.

Some worshippers are said to be anxious about the validity of their prayers.

There have been suggestions that laser beams could be used to make an exact measurement.

Tawfik al-Sudairy, Islamic affairs ministry deputy secretary, downplayed the problem in remarks quoted by the pan-Arab newspaper al-Hayat.

"There are no major errors but corrections have been made for some old mosques, thanks to modern techniques," he said.

"In any case, it does not affect the prayers."

Oh the horror of it. Can you imagine that your prayers may not have been heard by allah the pagan moon god?

Jordanian mans stabs sister to death

Amman: Jordan's Criminal Court has charged a 19-year-old man with stabbing to death his sister in what is believed to be an honour killing.

Judge Jihad Al Dridi charged the man on Monday with premeditated murder and the possession of a dangerous weapon.

Al Dridi said the man confessed to repeatedly stabbing his 22-year-old sister to cleanse the family honour because she left the house too often.

The victim is the eighth person to be killed in honour crimes this year.

The name of the man and the victim were not revealed due to the sensitivity of the case.

Oh, and by the way, islam had nothing to do with this.

Hamas couldn't fire smuggled Stingers against Israelis due to embedded ID system

GAZA CITY — The Hamas regime acquired U.S.-origin air defense systems but was unable to use them in combat.

Hamas sources said the Islamic military has acquired the Stinger man-portable air defense system. The sources said the Stingers were acquired from smugglers in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula in 2008 and deployed in the 22-day war against Israel in January 2009.

"We were disappointed by them, and they were found to have been useless," a Hamas source said.

The source said Hamas smuggled four Stinger systems in 2008. The source said the Hamas military deployed the Stingers against Israel Air Force AH-64 Apache attack helicopters during strike missions in the northern Gaza Strip.

Gee, where did they get these from? Oh yeah, we gave them to the mujahadine in the 1980s. We are idiots to think that islam is not at war with the West.

Husband chops off wife’s nose on alleged infidelity

SUKKUR: A husband cut her wife’s nose on allegations of having illicit relations with another man here in Kashmor.

According to police, a man named Jalnar Mamdani chopped off his wife Asia Mamdani’s nose with a sharp edged tool after blaming her of having illicit relations with another man. Following the incident, the man took his two children along and escaped.

Asia Mamdani was first admitted to Kashmor Hospital and later she was shifted to Sukkur Hospital where her surgery was carried out.

Injured Asia has appealed the police for providing her security.

DCO Kashmor Syed Abid Ali Shah hoped that Jalnar Mamdani would soon be arrested.

Ahh, the religion of peace. See how peaceful muslims are toward their own family. You know that this woman would never have an affair. She knew that this could happen.

Obama: EU membership for Turkey would be positive signal to Muslim nations

PRAGUE (AP) — President Barack Obama is urging the European Union to accept Turkey as a member, saying it would be a positive sign to the Muslim world.

Obama spoke Sunday at a luncheon for leaders of the EU's 27 nations in Prague. He said the West should seek greater cooperation and closer ties with Islamic nations. He said letting Turkey into the EU would be an important sign of those efforts.

France, Austria and other nations oppose Turkey's long-running efforts to join the European Union. EU members have urged Turkey to do more to guarantee minority rights, curb powers of its military and pass new rights for trade unions.

Turkey's population is mostly Muslim. Obama visits there Monday and Tuesday.

This cannot be allowed to happen. Turkey is about ninety five percent muslim. If allowed into the EU those muslims would be allowed to move freely to any EU nation. They would flood in an Europe would be lost to islam forever.