This would be a tough choice.  Does one need to point to Mecca while sitting on the bowl, or while standing in front of the bowl?  If they were a drinking lot, then kneeling to the porcelain god could also have a say in the proper placement of a toilet.

- Pam
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Met History 
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  Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 18:26
  Subject: Re: [BP] An urgent debate


  In a message dated 1/13/05 7:14:03 AM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes:


    I met an American architect who had done a considerable amount of work
    in Qatar. He had a curious problem in that what was wanted by the people
    in Qatar was the replication of American sprawling suburb, the sort of
    developments that would have clover-leafs, curved and branched side
    streets ending in small circles. They had the money for it, and that is
    what they wanted. The difficulty he expressed was that the orientation
    of the toilets towards Mecca all had to all of them be the same,


  what is the direction of a toilet?  christopher