Why Are Some Muslims Calling to Replace GMT with Mecca Time?<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThis summer, the world\u2019s largest clock began to tick in Mecca\u2014Islam\u2019s holiest city\u2014marking the beginning of Ramadan, the month of fasting for Muslims. After the inauguration of the clock, there wer…\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yeah, there's a cultural desire to have the world literally rotate around you — but this is pretty much a non-starter for a whole variety of reasons. Not for Colonialist or Western Hegemonic reasons, but for simple practical, pragmatic "that's the standard that's embedded around the world" kind of reasons. #ddtb Embedded Link Why Are … Continue reading “The Trouble of Time”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,10],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-23756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26857,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/05\/why-support-or-at-least-vote-for-obama.html","url_meta":{"origin":23756,"position":0},"title":"Why Support (or at least vote for) Obama?","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 5-Mar-12 8:53pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are eight reasons. 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