UK: Jail toilets face away from Mecca

British taxpayers: behold the fruit of your labors. "Jail toilets face away from Mecca," from the BBC, with thanks to all who sent this in:

Facilities in a prison are being built so Muslim inmates do not have to face Mecca while sitting on the toilet.

The Home Office said two new toilet blocks are being installed as part of a refurbishment at Brixton jail in south London.

Faith leaders had told prison bosses it was unacceptable for Muslim inmates to face Mecca while using the toilet.

"The refurbishment has been carried out with due consideration for all faiths", a Home Office spokeswoman said.

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Holy shit!

I hope the toilets face away from Mecca. That way, when sitting, their backsides will be facing home so to speak.

More here, putting meccerly/widdermeccerly toilet problem in perspective.

In the Middle East the toilets face any old way. And it hardly matters, if you see what I mean.

Water water everywhere. If you're lucky.

Freaking insane. Of all the ways to waste taxpayer money.

If I rob a bank, I want a private cell, queen size bed in my jail cell, with Ralph Lauren sheets, mini blinds, a closet for my shoes, a kitchenette stocked with avacados and chips, a private line plus my cell phone, a 32 inch tv, a dvd player, stereo with my choice of cd's, a patio with a cute patio set with an umbrella, microwave for my popcorn, my laptop, bloody mary's at 5 pm, unlimited visit time with family and friends and chocolate.

Terrorists get what they want and most don't pay taxes. This is what I want with my tax money.

Hi ya John. Hope Canada has started to thaw out for you. Backsides facing home, good one. And if the loos are facing away, the morons will still be facing directly towards Mecca, just facing it from the long way around.

Ater dark out in a fenced private back yard ... I'll face dead at and do my business!

As long as Uranus is in alignment with Earth, who cares which way Mecca is?

Thanks for the link, Interested. And the link at the end of the article, in 'They will be asking for their own exclusive purpose built mosque next' is worth following too.
Sounds to me as if two projects could be combined here!

Shinoliite - your comment has a nice ring to it. Or was that Saturn?

Actually...

http://www.ktvu.com/technology/8528910/detail.html?rss=fran&psp=technology

Fond memories of "Survey of Astronomy" in my undergrad years...

Either way the prof pronounced it, that seventh planet never got old!

In the Middle East the toilets face any old way. And it hardly matters, if you see what I mean. Posted by: Interested

Reason being that in the Middle East, a toilet would be a round hole in the ground, and therefore not face any particular direction.

But question here - is it against the rule for one's front to face Mecca when taking a dump, or for one's rear? Does the imaginary line connecting the Kaaba (which I assume is the point in Mecca that is the frame of reference for the toilet) to the loo has to be perpendicular to the person's sitting position? That's the only one that makes sense, or else, trying to plot the maximum distance from Mecca would also result in producing the minimum distance from Mecca. Unless one buys into the Quranic theory of a flat earth.

Being rhetorical here - but do they take such pains to see that the loos aren't directed at Canterbury Cathedral?

Is there some reason why they can't sit 'side saddle' so to speak?

Also if it so offends them perhaps they could learn not to break the law in future, thus saving them the ignominy (although they probably have en-suite nowadays) of taking a dump whilst facing their 'holy' city.

And freewoman, there is probably some human rights legislation that will provide you with just that should you so wish.

Joke from a Trekie friend. Be warned very bad joke.

Why does the ENTERPRISE stock so much toilet paper?
To wipe out the Klingons around Uranus.

Mo reminds me of what Beavis & Butthead used to say: you cannot polish a turd.

William:

Over all it's been a mild winter (global warming ain't so bad over here) and temp that last couple of days has been around 20 C with full sun. And the days are getting long too.

BTW - the CBC tonight had a good documentary on Pakistan and A.Q. Khan and the bomb. Parts of it are on the web - well worth watching.

http://www.cbc.ca/nuclearjihad/

Granny, did you hear the news? You won't believe what Spock found in the one of the toilets aboard the Enterprise.

The Captain's log.

There is a problem with the use of those toilets. I noticed this in Moscow, decades ago, where at good old M.G.U., the Arab students seemed not to know how to use the toilets, but it turned out there was another explanation for the use of the floor just beside the toilet. And it is this: one must not defecate into still, but only into running water. That's what Islam teaches. And it made sense in 7th century, or even 10th century, Arabia. Water was scarce; one didn't want a pool of water in the odd oasis to be used for other purposes.

Will this problem occur with Muslim prisoners overflowing those European jails? It will be interesting to hear from prison officials in England, or in France, on this unseemly but telling business

Holy Shit indeed.

Criminal turds are criminal turds. But there seems to be a lot of holier than thou sensitive turds about. Next you will all be banned from defacating in the direction of Makkah to respect religious sensitivities (of those you cannot name, but who are very sensitive...you know!). These people are criminals. (W)Holy criminals! It is time to stop accepting these silly trumped up "requirements" of a self obsessed criminal cult. For ALL religious criminals. Once yer in jail it should be bang ter yer rights and deal with it personally.

Actually, that's not a bad idea. Why defile a great invention such as the flush toilet by pointing it at Mecca?

I think the Catholic Church should protest and insist on toilets respecting the direction of the Vatican, and the Church of England should insist on some respecting Canterbury, and so on. This discrimination and favoritism should be protested!

if these turds care so much about their religion why don't they stay out of jail in the first place???

to be honsit, I have heard going to the toilet reffered to as going to the mosque. This is a crass joke maybe but people really must be feeling disgusted to crack it. I know which way i will build my bathroom.

Oh for pity sake! Muslims are such idiots and so are those that accomodate their demands. If the UK are afraid of them it is time to begin deportation, and long past time that Islam is seen and treated as the distructive force it is. Religion of peace my foot, there is no such thing as a moderate Muslim, and the only peaceful ones are that only because their host countries will not put up with their jihad mentality.

Comical as it is, it's actully a serious sadness that this is just yet another advance of islamic culture in our homelands. This toilet need is genuinly insane by the standards of modern civilisation. To actully spend money on accomadating a bizzare superstition lest we get bombed is tragic.

We are so used to the surreal demands that we hardly notice anymore.

I think a spate of catooning "toilet humour" around the mouth of mecca subject is due at least







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