An Islamic news agency has reported that Islamic scholars, including global Muslim Brotherhood leader Youssef Qaradawi, demanded that Mecca and not Greenwich become the center for world time. According the report:

Well known Islamic scholars, while addressing a Doha conference on ‘Makkah’s Importance’, said that the holy city, not Greenwich, should become the reference point for world time, reigniting an old controversy that started some four decades ago…

The World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY) has announced that Ahmed Totonji, an important leader…More