Tuesday, April 22, 2008

the end of Greenwich Mean Time

Saudi clerics lobby for Mecca time to be at zero instead of GMT in Britain.

Some of the quotes address the colonial symbolism of GMT - it quite literally puts Britain at the center of the world. Others say that Mecca is literally at the center of the earth and modern science thus validates "the greatness of the qibla".

Hmm.

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