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2006-10-21 Arabia
It's so complex: Astronomer Says Eid Will Be Monday
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Posted by .com 2006-10-21 04:49|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Rats! It's too late for my Eid cards. I'm sorry, this is 5 years in a row. Isn't their someway to predict this moon phase thing?
Posted by Shipman 2006-10-21 09:10||   2006-10-21 09:10|| Front Page Top

#2  He urged the Organization of the Islamic Conference to unify the Islamic calendar

it helps to have the Eid Bargain Sales at the ammo and acid stores the same weekend
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-10-21 09:13||   2006-10-21 09:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Sorry, Ship. Only "Arab Scientists" of sufficient piety are allowed to participate - and they're always pretty last-minute about the RamaLamaDingDong stuff.

I was so naive on my first tour in '92 that I offered to write programs to generate prayer times and RamaLama dates for the next 20 years to one of the Saudis that seemed sociable. His eyes got big, then he grinned, then he said that it would not be possible. He did not elaborate, but he thought it quite funny that I offered.
Posted by .com 2006-10-21 09:17||   2006-10-21 09:17|| Front Page Top

#4 It sounds like Al-Zaaq is trying to predict the future. He's a witch!
Posted by Flea 2006-10-21 09:51||   2006-10-21 09:51|| Front Page Top

#5 The greatest science project is underway ... a calendar! Such an advanced and scientific religion.
Posted by Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-10-21 09:53||   2006-10-21 09:53|| Front Page Top

#6 BTW, if anyone's interested, here's the original NASA image page from which I down-sized the one you see above... purdy cool.
Posted by .com 2006-10-21 09:58||   2006-10-21 09:58|| Front Page Top

#7 Islam is the most advanced scientific religion?!?

The live like sand fleas, the issue a fartwa against anything modern or fun, and they still wipe their ass with their hand. How does that make them the most scientifically advanced religion?
Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-10-21 10:08||   2006-10-21 10:08|| Front Page Top

#8 Hmmm. Advanced and scientific, huh? Ya know, you could use moontool.exe.
Posted by newc">newc  2006-10-21 10:08||   2006-10-21 10:08|| Front Page Top

#9 So lost in the Luna Sea.
Posted by newc">newc  2006-10-21 10:10||   2006-10-21 10:10|| Front Page Top

#10 My "Month At-A-Glance" calendar says Eid Al-Fitr is on Monday. I don't know how they knew. They seem to get the 4th of July and Christmas correct too. Every year. Amazing, this calendar science. Just amazing.
Posted by Darrell 2006-10-21 10:15||   2006-10-21 10:15|| Front Page Top

#11 And just think, they're planning to launch an Islamic satellite, per articles from a couple of RamLamas ago, so they can be extra certain about Islamic Space Science Stuff.

*swoon*
Posted by .com 2006-10-21 10:20||   2006-10-21 10:20|| Front Page Top

#12 It was about 25 degrees away from the sun.

Oh yeah, there's some good Islamic Science.
Posted by Parabellum 2006-10-21 10:26||   2006-10-21 10:26|| Front Page Top

#13 I've ordered in extra popcorn and Tubourg for the annual Trampede.
Posted by Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-10-21 10:44||   2006-10-21 10:44|| Front Page Top

#14 Hummm... please, do tell, when exactly will the traditional end-of-ramadan riots will begin? The french police is already on high alert, no kidding.
Posted by anonymous5089 2006-10-21 10:44||   2006-10-21 10:44|| Front Page Top

#15 Sorry - the Violent Fits of Fitr. Trampede is December.
Posted by Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-10-21 10:45||   2006-10-21 10:45|| Front Page Top

#16 Eid,

ima gunna space it out this year.. entirely, okay now I feel my boggle stirring! so solly.

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Posted by RD 2006-10-21 13:43||   2006-10-21 13:43|| Front Page Top

#17 "It’s impossible to believe that the Prophet (pbuh) would instruct his followers . . . when lunar and solar dates can be determined in advance on the basis of scientific calculations.”

Hoo boy, an apostate! Muslim invaders used to burn libraries to the ground, on the basis that all knowledge needed by mankind is in the Koran. If it ain't in there, mankind wasn't meant to have it, so all knowledge external to the the Koran is heretical and evil and should be destroyed.

But who knows, the poo-bahs at Al-Azhar probably have serious debates about whether precision calculations are haram -- along with whether to use leather belts or sacks of oranges to beat their wives.
Posted by exJAG 2006-10-21 17:57||   2006-10-21 17:57|| Front Page Top

#18 Islam is the most advanced and scientific religion.

YJCMTSU! Witness the monumental hubris of those who are most likely to be incinerated in history's largest nuclear bombardment.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2006-10-21 22:24||   2006-10-21 22:24|| Front Page Top

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