Is Mecca beds row just another tabloid fantasy?

From: Dewsbury Reporter (Dewsbury, England) | Date: December 14, 2007 | Copyright information

AN INDIAN Muslim scholar has spoken out about the controversy over beds at Dewsbury and District Hospital being moved to face Mecca.

In an interview with the Reporter, Mufti Shansul Huda Khan Misbahi sought to clarify the religious position on the matter, which he said had been "blown out of proportion".

Last week national newspapers and the American news network Fox News ran stories about nurses being pulled from their duties to turn beds of Muslim patients t...

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