THE EARLIEST MOSQUES DON'T FACE MECCA! GIBSON'S NEW RESEARCH - Al Fadi & Jay Smith CIRA series  If there are problems with Mecca, than there will also be problems with the Qibla (the direction of prayer every Muslim must pray towards).  So, Jay and Al Fadi broach this subject, using the new research carried out by Dan Gibson, from his recently published "Early Islamic Qiblas" (2017).  Dan Gibson went to the remnants of around 60 of the oldest mosques in existence which are still identifiable, and found the Qibla walls in these mosques, and then noted where they were directed towards.  In his book he tabulated each of the Qibla directions employing circular dials (which you will see in the slides Jay and Al Fadi put up within this video).  What he found was indeed disturbing!  Every Qibla for every mosque up to and including 706 AD was facing Petra! Yet Muhammad died in 632 AD, over 70 years earlier!  After 706 AD, some began facing another direction, directly between Petra and Mecca, suggesting these were making a political statement.  But the earliest mosque facing Mecca wasn't until 727 AD, almost 100 years after the death of Muhammad in 632 AD!  This is indeed disturbing, and needs to be accounted for.  Jay and Al Fadi are just introducing the material Dan Gibson researched in this video, but soon they will need to bring it all together and discuss what they think was going on.  For that material, you'll just have to wait and watch the next video, when it is released.  © Pfander Centre for Apologetics, 2017 (13,500)