At a motorway service station near Birmingham, two or three cars of Muslims turned up and parked beside us. Obviously they were highly religious Muslims, being dressed in full regalia. Next thing you know after standing around in the car park for a while, they start handing out prayer mats and praying, taking their shoes off and bowing down with their faces to the ground. Right there in view of everyone. I considered taking a video of them but reckoned discretion was the better part of valour, since they were 20 feet away and you never know what they'd do. I remember making a smart comment to one of the others I was with along the lines of "at least we know what way Mecca is" I also thought to save the exact location into my sat nav, with a mind to check it out later. This I did today. I don't know who was in charge of reading the compass or whatever for those Muslims, but he obviously failed orienteering. A line drawn on google earth from the roof of the Kaba to that exact location in the m-way services car park comes in from the south east, coincidentally paralell to the wall of the actual service building. The direction they were praying turns out to be northwards, about maybe 120 degrees off from the actual direction of Mecca. Yeah, it does give me a wee laugh.
Most boring story ever! You should have at least included a disclaimer at the start declaring that you were gonna waste about 2minutes of my life! F*cking A Man!
Poor guy. Can't even start a thread about his vacation without getting sidetracked by his Muslim obsession.
But you yanked their beards though, right? Come on, inject something into this drivel that makes it even remotely interesting.
Get a fucking life if you are on vacation and the minute you see Muslims praying you need to take note and check Google Earth to make sure they got the direction right. I mean....damn. Get laid, get a beer, go to an amusement park...anything but something so frigging lame. Are you God? No? Then it's none of your concern. Is your relationship with Him so perfect you can cast aspersions on others "sins"? No? Then shut the fuck up.
Not to mention that I'm pretty sure it's the intention that counts, so if someone was to show them they were facing the wrong direction they would probably just turn around and that would be that, wouldn't be a major crisis or anything.
Honestly, it might have been the highlight. I just got back from England and it pretty much sucked. To each his own tho... Then again, I'm sure the Muslims in question were already under the government eye.
