mihrab

• It is also a reference to the Islamic lunar calendar, and it is the shape of the archetypical Islamic mihrab: the Mecca-direction indicator around which every mosque is built. —  Right Truth
• Earlier in Istanbul, he made his first visit to a mosque as president, taking off his shoes and slowly walking across the carpeted floor of the Blue Mosque toward the mihrab, a niche in the wall indicating the direction of Mecca.
• What a mihrab means to the Wahhabists, the Khomeini-ists and the other Salafists explained the meaning of a Mecca-direction indicator (called a mihrab), like the one now being planted on the Flight 93 crash site: —  Error Theory
• The crescent shape in Obama's logo has the round part on top, just like a traditional crescent shaped mihrab (the Mecca direction indicator around which every mosque is built). —  Right Truth
• The lighter vertical column in the center-bottom of the logo, presumably meant to indicate reflected light, even conveys the full vertical shape of a traditional mihrab. —  Right Truth

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