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The Destruction of Mecca
NY Times ^
| September 30, 2014
| Ziauddin Sardar
Posted on 10/01/2014 6:18:24 AM PDT by C19fan
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The Saudis run Mecca like Disney runs their parks. Expansion to handle more and more pilgrims. The author mentions how the Saudis have destroyed much of the cultural heritage of the place especially sites that were important to the early days of Islam. Pilgrims would venerate at the sites associated with Muhammad, his family, and early leaders but the Salafists view that as idolatry so they destroyed most of those sites. The Saudis destroyed a historical Ottoman fort to make room for the gaudy Las Vegas style mega-hotel the article mentions.
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posted on
10/01/2014 6:18:24 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
This title made me soooo hopeful.
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posted on
10/01/2014 6:19:32 AM PDT
by
bolobaby
To: C19fan
Interesting. Perhaps the Saudis aren’t ALL bad...
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posted on
10/01/2014 6:22:01 AM PDT
by
WayneS
(Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
To: C19fan
A very important article, both in itself and because of the amazingvvfact that the NYT published it. By the bottom of the page it is blaming the Saudis for jihadism, at the very least on the cultural/spiritual level.
Remarkable.
Thank you for posting this.
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posted on
10/01/2014 6:27:25 AM PDT
by
Mrs. Don-o
(Point of clarification.)
To: C19fan
Funny, no mention of the disgust Malcolm X felt at having been lied to about islam and slavery.
To: C19fan
get ALL these bastards together and Duke Nukem.
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posted on
10/01/2014 6:35:07 AM PDT
by
Joe Boucher
(Obammy lied and lied and lied.)
To: bolobaby
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posted on
10/01/2014 6:36:12 AM PDT
by
Ray76
(We must destroy the Uniparty or be destroyed by them.)
To: C19fan
I've heard that the only reliable way to save oneself from ebola is to make the hajj and circle the kaaba whilst coughing vigourously and shaking hands, after spitting on them, with one and all.
[wink, wink. nudge, nudge]
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posted on
10/01/2014 6:38:26 AM PDT
by
Paine in the Neck
(Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
To: C19fan
The house of Khadijah, the first wife of the Prophet Muhammad, has been turned into a block of toilets. Needs no comment. Speaks for itself.
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posted on
10/01/2014 6:39:07 AM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
(NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
To: C19fan
Notice no violent protests over muslims destroying their own holy city!
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posted on
10/01/2014 6:42:01 AM PDT
by
RginTN
To: C19fan
I wonder how many ebola virus particles are walking around the rock today.
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posted on
10/01/2014 6:45:23 AM PDT
by
Vermont Lt
(Ebola: Death is a lagging indicator.)
To: cripplecreek
Malcolm X strayed a little off the ‘great’ Elijah Mohammed’s reservation and got jihadi’d offed himself.
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posted on
10/01/2014 6:51:44 AM PDT
by
tflabo
(Truth or tyranny)
To: bolobaby
Nuke Makkah & the entire house of Islam will collapse like a house of wet cards.
Muzzies will run berserk all over the world for a while, but the world’s majority which is non-Muslim will counterattack & then clean up & dispose of the aftermath, and the planet will be a much better place.
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posted on
10/01/2014 7:04:57 AM PDT
by
elcid1970
("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
To: C19fan
> Makkah Royal Clock Tower hotel, which, at 1,972 feet...
It would be a shame if somebody flew an airliner into it.
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posted on
10/01/2014 7:05:03 AM PDT
by
glorgau
To: C19fan
Who the heck knows, as inifdels are not allowed into the city. Secondly, WTFGAS?????? The city, and the black rock, should be turned into glass.
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posted on
10/01/2014 7:11:02 AM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
To: C19fan
“The Saudis running Mecca like Disney [running] their parks” is actually appropriate in light of the history of Mohammed and Islam. In Mohammed’s time Mecca had a substantial “tourist” industry, based on pagan shrines... as I recall from a Middle East history course I took decades ago. Mohammed had considered Jerusalem and other sites as his center place but essentially made a deal with the leaders in Mecca, insuring that his followers would be obligated to visit their city. Maybe Disney had learned from Mohammed - build a place attracting visitors and then the hotels and other items to extract as much money as possible.
To: C19fan
Hajj... AKA A PERFECT change to spread Ebola with all the African Muslims. Multitudes of worldwide travelers. Saudi sanitation. People in close quarters sweating, spitting, coughing, shaking hands, kissing cheeks. What’s to worry about?
To: C19fan
I suggest we help return Mecca to its former glory as Sand Capital of the Barbarian World by turning it into the world’s largest glass parking lot.
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posted on
10/01/2014 7:35:02 AM PDT
by
IronJack
To: cripplecreek
Holders people in general seem to have Stockholm Syndrome regarding their attachment to muslims in spite of never-ending muslim enslavement of Africans.
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posted on
10/01/2014 7:47:04 AM PDT
by
X-spurt
(CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
To: glorgau
Don’t waste a plane, just fly a missile into it.
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posted on
10/01/2014 7:48:42 AM PDT
by
NCLaw441
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