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Re: these muslims

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From GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com>
Subject Re: these muslims
Date 2015-04-05 12:18 -0600
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Ezekiel wrote:

> 
> "owl" <owl@rooftop.invalid> wrote in message
> news:hgye0.333tg@rooftop.invalid...
>> John Gohde <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Saturday, April 4, 2015 at 2:12:54 PM UTC-4, owl wrote:
>>>> What should we do about these cockroaches?
>>
>>
>>> Stupid comment made by stupid little old owl.
>>
>> Next time you're in the kitchen, just check and see if the cockroaches
>> don't line up toward Mecca five times a day.  I witnessed this personally
>> at DFS's house just last week.
>>
> 
> "line up toward Mecca" - recently been through this myself.
> 
> We sold our house and moved last summer. We put our house up on the market
> and probably 60% of the people looking at it were Muslim. (30% Asian and
> 10% Caucasian.)
> 
> The first people who looked at the house were Muslim and they went through
> the entire house. The entire time they were busy doing something on their
> iPhone.
> 
> The next family was also Muslim. They went through the house and the wife
> kept pulling out her iPhone and running some app. After they left I asked
> the realtor WTF is going on.
> 
> She said that they're using the compass or an app that shows them the
> orientation of the house and which walls and windows face Mecca. This blew
> my mind. When we went through a house we were 100% busy with the actual
> house and structure. These people sort-of paid attention to the house but
> were very interested in what direction the windows were facing.
> 
> The front of our house faced south and the back faced north where the back
> porches would get some shade in the summer. This means that the end/corner
> of the house was facing Mecca which isn't good.
> 
> But technology had a solution. It turns out that there's this thing called
> "Qiblah" which is how Muslims find the direction to pray in. The "old
> school" method is to pray directly towards Mecca which isn't in good
> alignment with our house.
> 
> The new modern Qiblah is to use the great circle computation where the
> shortest path to Mecca is actually over the north pole. Some Muslims
> believe this is the orientation they should be using and we had a
> fantastic room with lots of huge glass windows facing that direction.
> 
> Who knew?
> 

As one guy put it:  We ain't played cowboys and muslims yet.

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these muslims owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-04-04 18:12 +0000
  Re: these muslims Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2015-04-04 15:28 -0400
    Re: these muslims owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-04-04 21:15 +0000
      Re: these muslims Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2015-04-04 17:59 -0400
        Re: these muslims owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-04-04 23:18 +0000
        Radical Muslims, Nazis, KKK are Social Conservatives Ramon F Herrera <ramon@conexus.net> - 2015-04-05 13:40 -0500
          Re: Radical Muslims, Nazis, KKK are Social Conservatives DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2015-04-05 18:46 -0400
            Re: Radical Muslims, Nazis, KKK are Social Conservatives Ramon F Herrera <ramon@conexus.net> - 2015-04-05 22:15 -0500
              Re: Radical Muslims, Nazis, KKK are Social Conservatives DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2015-04-06 10:50 -0400
            Re: Radical Muslims, Nazis, KKK are Social Conservatives Ramon F Herrera <ramon@conexus.net> - 2015-04-05 22:20 -0500
              Buh-bye Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2015-04-06 08:11 -0400
                Re: Buh-bye Ramon F Herrera <ramon@conexus.net> - 2015-04-06 07:28 -0500
                Re: Buh-bye Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2015-04-06 08:43 -0400
                Re: Buh-bye Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2015-04-06 08:41 -0400
                Re: Buh-bye chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-06 07:59 -0500
                Re: Buh-bye DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2015-04-06 10:55 -0400
                Re: Buh-bye William Poaster <wp@dev.null> - 2015-04-06 22:25 +0100
      Re: these muslims Marti van Lin <ml2mst@nospam.indvalid> - 2015-04-12 13:32 +0200
    Re: these muslims Marti van Lin <ml2mst@nospam.indvalid> - 2015-04-12 13:23 +0200
      Re: these muslims Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2015-04-12 11:31 -0400
        Re: these muslims Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2015-04-12 10:41 -0700
          Re: these muslims owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-04-12 18:56 +0000
            Re: these muslims Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2015-04-12 15:49 -0400
      Re: these muslims Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2015-04-12 13:18 -0400
        Re: these muslims JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2015-04-13 09:23 -0500
  Re: these muslims John Gohde <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> - 2015-04-04 15:26 -0700
    Re: these muslims owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-04-04 23:33 +0000
      Re: these muslims DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2015-04-04 20:48 -0400
        Re: these muslims owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-04-05 14:31 +0000
          Re: these muslims Charlie Croyden <charlescroyden3@gmail.com> - 2015-04-05 07:50 -0700
      Re: these muslims "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2015-04-05 08:34 -0400
        Re: these muslims owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-04-05 14:11 +0000
        Re: these muslims GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> - 2015-04-05 12:18 -0600
          Re: these muslims owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-04-05 20:03 +0000
  Radical Muslims, Nazis, KKK are Social Conservatives Ramon F Herrera <ramon@conexus.net> - 2015-04-05 13:28 -0500
  Radical Muslims, Nazis, KKK are Social Conservatives Ramon F Herrera <ramon@conexus.net> - 2015-04-05 14:08 -0500
  Re: these muslims Marti van Lin <ml2mst@nospam.indvalid> - 2015-04-12 13:12 +0200
    Re: these muslims Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2015-04-12 11:29 -0400
      Re: these muslims DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2015-04-12 12:54 -0400
        Re: these muslims Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2015-04-12 15:39 -0400
    Re: these muslims Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2015-04-12 13:18 -0400
      Re: these muslims owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-04-12 17:38 +0000
      Re: these muslims ronb <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2015-04-12 17:48 +0000
        Re: these muslims owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-04-12 18:23 +0000
        Re: these muslims Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2015-04-12 16:25 -0400
          Little Beaver Chris Ahlstrom Is Still A Kid. He Likes To Wipe Pee Pees While Reading Mad Magazine. Tomas <tgif9fri@numo.net> - 2015-04-12 16:33 -0400
          Re: these muslims owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-04-12 20:51 +0000
        Re: these muslims JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2015-04-13 09:19 -0500
      Re: these muslims chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-13 09:22 -0500
    Re: these muslims Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2015-04-12 10:33 -0700
      Re: these muslims owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-04-12 18:51 +0000
        Re: these muslims Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2015-04-12 11:55 -0700
          Re: these muslims owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-04-12 19:06 +0000
          Re: these muslims Tomas <tgif9fri@numo.net> - 2015-04-12 15:10 -0400
            Re: these muslims Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2015-04-12 15:59 -0400
              Re: these muslims Tomas <tgif9fri@numo.net> - 2015-04-12 16:20 -0400
                Re: these muslims Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2015-04-12 20:44 -0400
            Re: these muslims JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2015-04-13 09:20 -0500
    Re: these muslims GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> - 2015-04-12 13:09 -0600
    Re: these muslims JEDIDIAH <jedi@nomad.mishnet> - 2015-04-13 09:18 -0500
      Re: these muslims Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2015-04-13 12:45 -0400
      Re: these muslims owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-04-13 17:17 +0000
        Re: these muslims Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2015-04-13 13:23 -0400
      Re: these muslims GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> - 2015-04-13 12:22 -0600
        Re: these muslims Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-04-13 11:27 -0700
          Re: these muslims owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-04-13 18:57 +0000
            Re: these muslims Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2015-04-13 12:09 -0700
              Re: these muslims GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> - 2015-04-13 20:35 -0600
                Re: these muslims Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-04-13 19:51 -0700
                Re: these muslims Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2015-04-13 21:03 -0700
                Re: these muslims Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2015-04-13 21:04 -0700
            Re: these muslims Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-04-13 12:10 -0700
              Re: these muslims owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-04-13 19:33 +0000
                Re: these muslims Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-04-13 12:37 -0700
                Re: these muslims Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2015-04-13 13:11 -0700
                Re: these muslims owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-04-14 07:22 +0000
                Re: these muslims Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-04-14 08:45 -0700
                Re: these muslims Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2015-04-13 13:08 -0700
          Re: these muslims GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> - 2015-04-13 13:04 -0600
            Re: these muslims Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-04-13 12:08 -0700
              Re: these muslims GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> - 2015-04-13 20:32 -0600
                Re: these muslims Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-04-13 19:54 -0700
                Re: these muslims owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-04-14 07:41 +0000
                Re: these muslims Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-04-14 08:44 -0700
        Re: these muslims Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2015-04-13 17:49 -0400
          Re: these muslims GreyCloud <mist@cumulus.com> - 2015-04-13 20:28 -0600
            Re: these muslims Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-04-13 19:50 -0700

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