Quibbling over qibla

The Independent out of the UK has the story about the fine-tuning of toilets for the 2012 Olympics:

Toilets which do not face the holy Islamic city of Mecca are among a raft of design principles announced today.
The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) want its procurement, design and construction framework - or Inclusive Design Strategy - to produce an ideal venue for people of all cultures, faiths, ages and accessible to disabled people for the 2012 Games and beyond.
An ODA spokeswoman said "a percentage of general toilets will not face Mecca" out of sensitivity. The numbers have not yet been confirmed.
Special washing facilities linked to prayer rooms are also planned for the Park, set in multiculturally diverse east London.

Rico wonders is it the front door or your ass that's not supposed to face Mecca? (Find the direction of Mecca from where you are here, so you won't offend, either.)

You think you've got problems? How about being a Muslim astronaut? "In April 2006, Angkasa, the Malaysian space agency, sponsored a conference of scientists and religious scholars to address the issue of how qiblah should be determined when one is in orbit. The conference concluded that the astronaut should determine the location of qiblah "according to [their] capability". The Russian Federal Space Agency will be taking a Muslim Malaysian astronaut into orbit in 2007. Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has stated that one should face the direction of the Earth."

Rico says that's good, since the Earth (and thus the location of Mecca) is moving whilst you're praying...