[C19fan]

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.

[minnesota_bound]

Looks like they changed everything.

Gallery of many images http://www.alzahracentre.org/gallery/mecca/

[ballplayer]

How did Malcom X Die?

[thackney]

[Fred Nerks]

Sardar contends that the present backwardness of non-European countries in science is mainly due to their past colonization by Europeans. Article.
Sardar’s Lifeline
Ziauddin Sardar was born on 31 October 1951 in Dipalpur, Northern Pakistan. As a small boy, he migrated to London, Britain, following his father who had established a foothold there a few years before. He studied physics and information science at the City University in London...

http://www.riseofthewest.net/thinkers/sardar01.htm

As an information scientist, he worked at the Hajj Research Centre of King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, where he developed a simulation model for the performance of the pilgrimage to Mecca. He simultaneously wrote books and worked on evenings as a journalist. He then migrated again to London, and worked for science periodicals like Nature and NewScientist, before joining television as a reporter. After this, he became consulting editor of Inquiry, a Muslim magazine. He set up a “Centre for Future Studies at the East-West University” in Chicago. Between 1994 and 1998, he was visiting professor of science and technology policy at the Middlesex University...

[dennisw]

Just shows how schizo Islam is. The native Salafists were happy with what the developers did to destroy Muslim-Muhammad heritage sites in Mecca.....

To compound this madness they all worship a false prophet anyways so are wasting their time here. Nothing from nothing is nothing. Fake moon god-false prophet.