lol noobs.AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Dutch police station trying to help Muslim detainees face Mecca for their prayers painted arrows in cells pointing in the wrong direction.
The Segbroek police station in The Hague borrowed the idea of putting compass marks on ceilings from an Amsterdam hotel, the Dutch daily De Telegraaf reported on Friday.
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."
All other police cells in the Dutch capital will soon get similar compass marks, the in-house newspaper of The Hague police said.
The Netherlands is home to 1 million Muslims out of a population of more than 16 million.
Immigration and the integration of newcomers have been hot topics since the rise and murder of populist politician Pim Fortuyn in 2002, who said the country could not absorb any more foreigners.
thats The Hague for ya
+1
If it's such a big deal and they pray 5 times a day, they should know which way is East and figure it out themsevles. Savages..
If they are East of Mecca, do they still face East ?
Or do they pray to the West ?
Or do they pray to the West ?
It was all Alpha's fault!
Self pwnd.
i demand compensation on behalf of dissaffected Muslim fanatics everywhere.
yes, because Alpha made it to mod status on BF2s the dutch government appointed him as prime minister.Ryan wrote:
It was all Alpha's fault!
I get always mixed up with West and East, don't even let met start on the arrowsRyan wrote:
It was all Alpha's fault!
< was right, right ?
That's a good point. Technically if you go due east from the netherlands you end up in Khazakstan or Mongolia, or somewhere like that. Surely they should really be praying to the south east if they really cared.jamesb wrote:
If they are East of Mecca, do they still face East ?
Or do they pray to the West ?
Maybe I should invent a compass that points at Mecca - I could make millions of the muslims!
LOL who cares...
That's what drugs do to you!
Eh, the earth is round, so no biggie.
hahahahahaahaha it seems the dutch love pissing off muslims
lol..i actually thought they intentionally put them the wrong way to be bastards
Hahahaha "oops"
actually, technically they are supposed to face in the direction of Mecca, which is SE of Europe. still wrong.
Thats actually very important, kinda like mixing up the positive and negative on a C4 or IED either way don't work to goodMilk.org wrote:
lol noobs.AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Dutch police station trying to help Muslim detainees face Mecca for their prayers painted arrows in cells pointing in the wrong direction.
The Segbroek police station in The Hague borrowed the idea of putting compass marks on ceilings from an Amsterdam hotel, the Dutch daily De Telegraaf reported on Friday.
Muslims pray five times a day, facing east in the direction of Mecca. But the arrows in Segbroek pointed west.
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"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."
All other police cells in the Dutch capital will soon get similar compass marks, the in-house newspaper of The Hague police said.
The Netherlands is home to 1 million Muslims out of a population of more than 16 million.
Immigration and the integration of newcomers have been hot topics since the rise and murder of populist politician Pim Fortuyn in 2002, who said the country could not absorb any more foreigners.
Wonder if they lose out on their virgins now for showing Allah their rear instead of their head.
Congrats AlphaSargeV1.4 wrote:
yes, because Alpha made it to mod status on BF2s the dutch government appointed him as prime minister.Ryan wrote:
It was all Alpha's fault!