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After the hajj: Mecca residents grow hostile to changes in the holy city
UK Guardian ^ | September 14, 2016 | Raya Jalabi

Posted on 09/14/2016 1:40:57 PM PDT by C19fan

Millions of hajj pilgrims are preparing to head home, after five days performing ancient rites, revering a God omnipresent in the city of Mecca.

They have stoned figurative devils, they have slept in the world’s largest tent city, they have drunk water from the Zamzam well together: a heaving throng of nearly two million people from all over the world.

Circling the Kaaba, the black cubic epicentre of this sanctuary city, pilgrims would have looked up to see one of the minarets of the Grand Mosque, dwarfed by Abraj al-Bait clocktower, a much-maligned luxury hotel and commercial complex and the second-tallest building in the world.

Next year, they will see the Abraj Kudai, the largest hotel on Earth.

Indeed, though rebuilt throughout the centuries, the minarets – like much of the city – are now relics of a pre-modern Mecca. Cranes and scaffolding now dominate the central skyline, reminders that the city is undergoing a massive state-run expansion to be able to handle ever-increasing numbers of annual pilgrims in the future.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: History; Religion; Travel
KEYWORDS: epigraphyandlanguage; hajj; iconoclasm; iconoclasts; mecca; middleages; petra; saudiarabia
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The Saudis have converted Mecca to Orlando for Muslims. Any thing of historical significance have been razed, some intentional due to Wahhabi fanaticism. The Saudis are pretty open they are using their custodianship of Mecca and Median to make boatloads of money.
1 posted on 09/14/2016 1:40:57 PM PDT by C19fan
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Orlando for Muslims. Sounds like a million laffs.


2 posted on 09/14/2016 1:44:32 PM PDT by Maceman (Screw the Party. Save the Country.)
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Sound like a place to test MOAB


3 posted on 09/14/2016 1:45:32 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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Roger that.

Pop their belief system and kill islam as a world evil almost immediately.


4 posted on 09/14/2016 1:46:42 PM PDT by TheTimeOfMan (A time for peace and a time for war)
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To: Maceman

ROFL!!! pots of the day :)

OH NO!! PROGRESS!!


5 posted on 09/14/2016 1:49:32 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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Churchill was right, it’s like rabies, permanently disabling mental illness.


6 posted on 09/14/2016 1:50:14 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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Imagine the smell.


7 posted on 09/14/2016 1:51:43 PM PDT by Don Corleone (Oil the gun, eat the cannolis, take it to the mattress.)
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Mecca
8 posted on 09/14/2016 1:53:07 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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Raze the cult of islam as it is all deplorable.


9 posted on 09/14/2016 2:05:05 PM PDT by soycd
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Meaningful Change


10 posted on 09/14/2016 2:05:30 PM PDT by shibumi (Dancin in the Dark with Tramps in the Park, I'm the Fleetfoot VooDoo Man)
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If you can’t get a pulled pork sammich or a cold beer there, it ain’t civilized. Nuke it.


11 posted on 09/14/2016 2:07:07 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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What is so holy about Mecca?


12 posted on 09/14/2016 2:07:23 PM PDT by 353FMG (AMERICA MATTERS)
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Look at the Big Rock on google earth. All around it is slums


13 posted on 09/14/2016 2:08:19 PM PDT by Sybeck1 (Remember the Court)
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To: Robert DeLong

Gene Pitney - Mecca
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14 posted on 09/14/2016 2:10:13 PM PDT by donna (No one should be allowed to become a citizen or even a resident if they support Sharia Law.)
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Hey, when Steve Wynn builds a hotel next to a Marriott and a Holiday INN by the Kaba,, then they should be concerned.


15 posted on 09/14/2016 2:10:15 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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Next year, they will see the Abraj Kudai, the largest hotel on Earth.

I can think of TWO ways that President Trump can change that.
16 posted on 09/14/2016 2:10:30 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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Plenty of room for Syrian refugees in that monster size hotel.


17 posted on 09/14/2016 2:13:28 PM PDT by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prison 2016)
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Orlando for Muslims

I guess it really is true, It's A Small World After All...

18 posted on 09/14/2016 2:13:28 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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Oh, how I wish that Kabaa thing could be destroyed.


19 posted on 09/14/2016 2:29:40 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (AMERICA IS DONE! When can we start over?)
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All that and no room for any mooselimb refugees.

For all the insinuations about nukes/Mecca here, keep in mind that Iran(Persia)and Turkey hate the Saudi Royals and likely will take them out, and sooner than most expect. The Gulf States will crumble and a Grand Caliphate can form without Saudi influence.
ISIS is a temporary distraction.
Turkey and Persia can unite (despite Sunni/Shia) against common enemies such as Kurds, then ISIS.
The rest of Islam will rally around the strong horse.


20 posted on 09/14/2016 2:31:53 PM PDT by Zuse (I am disrupted! I am offended! I am insulted! I am outraged!)
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