Jail cell “compass” has Muslims praying in wrong direction
A Dutch police station trying to help Muslim
detainees face Mecca for their prayers painted arrows in cells pointing in the
wrong direction.
A Dutch police station trying to help Muslim detainees face Mecca for their prayers painted arrows in cells pointing in the wrong direction.
Muslims pray five times a day, facing east in the direction of Mecca. But the arrows in Segbroek pointed west.
“This is a really gigantic, stupid blunder,” a police spokesman told the De Telegraaf.
“The faulty compass marks have been immediately corrected. It is a mystery for us how this could have possibly happened.”
Uh, which is it: a smartass copper or a dumbass copper?
Posted: Sun - April 15, 2007 at 09:08 AM