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<option weight="1">{{Pictorial-Islam|1=Letter to America (Osama bin Laden)|2=[[File:Osama bin Laden.jpg|300px|link=Letter to America - Osama bin Laden]]|3=The letter to America is a 4,000-word document written by Osama bin Laden in 2002. The letter first appeared on the internet in Arabic on a Saudi Arabian website, and has since been translated and posted on Islamic websites run from the United Kingdom.
The letter lists seven demands. The first demand is that Americans convert to Islam, "the religion of enjoining the good and forbidding the evil with the hand," "the religion of Jihad in the way of Allah so that Allah's Word and religion reign Supreme". ([[Letter to America - Osama bin Laden|''read more'']])}}</option>




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Salah: Praying Towards the Ka'aba

Praying towards the Ka'aba.JPG

Due to the sphericity of the earth, a prayer in any direction will point towards the sky/outer-space, not Mecca. People who are located on the opposite 'side' of the earth would have to pray vertically down towards the center of the earth, and would also blaspheme against Allah, because they defecate toward the direction of the Ka'aba when they answer the call of nature. If we use the traditional Muslim method of determining qiblah (i.e. a great circle) this would still be blasphemous because you would be simultaneously praying with your face and backside aimed towards the Ka'aba. For people located on the opposite 'side' of the earth any direction for all 360 degrees would be facing 'towards' Mecca and consequently, there would be no one direction that would be the correct one. (read more)

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