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Posted: **Fri Jul 16, 2010 11:28 pm**

He said, "Oh, you're right and a billion Indonesian Muslims are wrong?"

And I said, with full confidence, "Yep."

And I was right.

http://af.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idAFTRE66F1Z820100716

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's Muslims learned on Friday they have been praying in the wrong direction, after the country's highest Islamic authority said its directive on the direction of Mecca actually had people facing Africa.

Posted: **Sat Jul 17, 2010 8:38 am**

I will pass that on to the wife. But there is some kind of funny rule about praying when you aren't sure where mecca is. I know wherever we are she faces west(Compass on her rug) and mecca ain't west from here.

Posted: **Sat Jul 17, 2010 8:50 am**

Mecca is east-ish from Ohio. The Pacific ocean is west, and covers an entire hemisphere of the planet. Then there is a big chunk of Asia before you get to Mecca, looking west.

Posted: **Sun Jul 18, 2010 9:19 am**

Might be the long way but she faces west. Every time we travel and stop I get quized on which way I think is west. Fortunately it is when we stop at night and I happen to know which way the sun goes down.

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Ha... I told Unk this a while back...